Vishal Gulati, IANS|August 5, 2014
MCLEOD GANJ: The road to Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama’s abode passes through hell. Foreigners and domestic tourists coming to this north Indian hill town, in the state of Himachal Pradesh, for an audience with the Nobel Peace Prize laureate find the road disappearing under the wheels of the vehicle they are travelling in.
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DHARAMSALA, Aug 5: At least 398 people have been killed and more than 1800 injured after a powerful earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale jolted south-west China’s Yunnan province.
Read moreVishal Gulati, IANS|August 4, 2014
DHARAMSALA, Aug 4: Tibetan Prime Minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay says the people in Tibet will be happy if they are given more autonomy by China “within the Chinese constitution”.
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DHARAMSALA, Aug 2: A Tibetan organization known for its unique style of activism performed a street play on Aug 1, recalling the turn of events that led to a Tibetan nomad’s imprisonment for eight years for openly expressing the wishes and aspirations of the Tibetan people at a horse racing festival in Lithang in former Kham province of traditional Tibet.
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[Reuters] KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan, Aug 1: A series of explosions caused by a gas leak killed 25 people and injured 267 in Taiwan’s second city on Friday, sending flames shooting 15 storeys into the air, setting ablaze entire blocks and reducing small shops to rubble.
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[PTI] KATHMANDU, July 31: Thousands of Tibetan exiles today offered prayers during the cremation ceremony of a revered Buddhist monk, days after Nepal denied permission to let his remains brought into the country fearing anti-China protests.
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DHARAMSALA, July 31: China has once again demonstrated its intolerance towards criticism in any form, no matter how mild and constructive, by charging charged Ilham Tohti, a prominent Uighur scholar with “separatism” on Wednesday.
Read more[The Asian Age] NEW DELHI, July 29: Army Chief Gen. Bikram Singh faced an awkward moment recently during his visit to China earlier this month when a Chinese PLA lady-officer of the rank of Colonel asked him some searching questions on the Indian stand on Arunachal Pradesh and the Tibetan cause.
Read more[PTI] BEIJING, July 29: China plans to scale up its trade ties with Nepal as a new bridge to improve the connectivity between the two countries through Tibet will open in October this year.
Read moreUtpal Parashar, Hindustan Times|July 29, 2014
Backtracking from its earlier stance, Nepal government on Tuesday allowed entry of a prominent Tibetan spiritual leader’s body for conducting his last rites.
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