U.S.-funded broadcaster Radio Free Asia said Sunday the three set themselves on fire Friday in Seda county in Sichuan province. It says one person died and the others are in serious condition. A woman who answered the phone at the county government office Sunday denies the incidents happened.
Showing posts with label Tibet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tibet. Show all posts
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Friday, December 2, 2011
02/12 Tibet 'sees first monk self-immolation protest'
2 December 2011 Last updated at 04:43 GMT
Rights groups have long criticised China's treatment of Tibetan monks
Rights groups have long criticised China's treatment of Tibetan monksA former monk has set himself on fire in Tibet, reports say, in the latest such protest against Chinese rule.
The monk is reportedly being treated for his wounds after the protest in Changdu, known as Chamdo in Tibetan.
If confirmed, the incident would be the first self-immolation in the Tibetan Autonomous Region.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
01/06 Bắc Kinh: kẹt xe, ô nhiễm nhất thế giới
Thứ Tư, 01/06/2011, 10:02 (GMT+7)
TTO - Theo Hãng tin Bloomberg, Bắc Kinh và các thành phố lớn ven biển của Trung Quốc đã trở thành những thành phố có bầu khí quyển ô nhiễm nhất thế giới. Năm ngoái trên 10.000 xe nối đuôi trên 120km bị kẹt nhiều ngày trên con đường Tây Tạng - Bắc kinh.
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| Kẹt xe 120km ở Trung Quốc |
Sự phát triển quá nhanh của thị trường ôtô khiến các nhà lãnh đạo Trung Quốc phải đau đầu với tình trạng kẹt xe và ô nhiễm ở các thành phố lớn.
Có thể Chính phủ Trung Quốc sẽ phải thúc đẩy phát triển ôtô sử dụng năng lượng thay thế sớm hơn, đầu tư hạ tầng giao thông nhiều hơn để giải quyết tình trạng kẹt xe và ô nhiễm không khí.
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| Ô nhiễm không khí ở Thiên An Môn |
* Theo Hiệp hội Sản xuất ôtô Trung Quốc, năm nay doanh số ôtô có thể giảm 10%. Doanh số tháng tư còn 1,55 triệu xe, giảm 0,25% so với cùng kỳ năm ngoái. Nguyên nhân do chính phủ tăng giá xăng dầu, các thành phố hạn chế số lượng xe đăng ký và động đất ở Nhật khiến một số thành phần lắp ráp xe bị thiếu hụt.
Doanh số ôtô Trung Quốc bị sụt giảm nhiều nhất ở thị phần ôtô cỡ nhỏ là loại xe trước đây được hưởng chính sách trợ giá.
Chính sách trợ giá của Trung Quốc nhằm thúc đẩy tiêu dùng trong bối cảnh suy thoái kinh tế toàn cầu năm 2008, đã giúp Trung Quốc vượt qua Mỹ trở thành thị trường ôtô lớn nhất thế giới vào năm 2009. Qua năm 2010, tổng doanh số bán (bao gồm xe con, xe tải, xe buýt) ở Trung Quốc đã tăng lên 18,06 triệu chiếc. Trong khi đó tổng doanh số bán hàng của Mỹ năm 2010 chỉ đạt 11,5 triệu xe, kém Trung Quốc rất xa. Do vậy dù doanh số 2011 giảm 10%, Trung Quốc vẫn bảo vệ được danh hiệu thị trường ôtô lớn nhất thế giới.
ANH NGỌC (theo Bloomberg)
Saturday, May 28, 2011
28/05 Tibet's first five-star hotel opens in Lhasa
| English.news.cn 2011-05-28 16:15:42 |
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| A tourist is silhouetted in Lhasa St. Regis Hotel in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, May 28, 2011. (Xinhua/Purbu Zhaxi) |
LHASA, May 28 (Xinhua) -- Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region opened its first five-star hotel on Saturday, a move targeting the region's tourism industry.
Lhasa St. Regis Hotel, opening in the region's capital Lhasa, is a high-end property in the tourism market, said Guo Yan, chairman of Yungao International Hotel, the hotel's investor.
Wang Songping, deputy chief of the tourism bureau of Tibet, said construction of the Shangri-La Hotel and InterContinental Hotel would start this year.
According to the region's five-year plan, there will be five five-star hotels in the region by 2015, Wang said.
Wang said Tibet has abundant tourism resources but is short of elite tourism facilities, but the international hotels coming to Tibet will help promote tourism in the region.
Tibet envisions 15 million tourists arriving per year by 2015, generating a total tourism income of up to 18 billion yuan, according to the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) of the region.
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Saturday, April 23, 2011
23/04 Chinese besiege Tibetan monastery after suicide
2011/04/23
Chinese security forces are blockading 2,500 people inside a major Tibetan Buddhist monastery after a 16-year-old monk burned himself to death after shouting slogans in support of freedom for Tibet.
The standoff at the Kirti monastery in Ngawa County in Sichuan province's Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture has been escalating since the young monk's suicide on March 16.
A local woman told The Asahi Shimbun in a telephone interview on April 18: "Nearly 100 police officers with police dogs are blockading the monastery. The monks are receiving 're-education' in its compound."
According to an April 15 statement issued by the Tibetan Buddhist leader, the 14th Dalai Lama, the security forces have been stopping supplies to the monastery, one of the most important institutions in Tibetan Buddhism.
The young monk, called Lobsang, walked out of the monastery on the evening of March 16, sources said. He shouted "freedom to Tibet" and "long live the Dalai Lama," doused himself in gasoline and burned himself to death.
Monks in the monastery offered prayers for the dead monk in the afternoon on March 17. About 3,000 local Tibetan residents gathered at the monastery.
China's Xinhua News Agency reported that the 16-year-old monk was transported to hospital but died before dawn on March 17 due to heart and lung failure.
Sources said he did not leave a suicide note or a will, but he was known to be dissatisfied with the Chinese authorities' policies on Tibet. The closing of schools where students could learn in the Tibetan language and the disappearance of the 11th Panchen Lama, a high-ranking leader recognized by the 14th Dalai Lama, had particularly angered him.
According to the U.S. station Radio Free Asia, the suicide triggered unrest not only among monks at the monastery but also among Tibetan residents in the area.
In April, a rumor spread that the Chinese authorities intended to transfer monks from the monastery. To prevent the transfer, several thousand residents gathered around the monastery. Police officers dispersed them using police dogs, but a tense standoff has since developed.
In the statement issued April 15, the 14th Dalai Lama urged the Chinese authorities to change their stance, warning that the situation could get out of control and involve local residents.
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in a news conference on April 19, "All of the lives and religious activities of monks in the monastery are normal."
(This article was compiled from reports by Kenji Minemura in Beijing and Nozomu Hayashi in Guangzhou.)
The standoff at the Kirti monastery in Ngawa County in Sichuan province's Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture has been escalating since the young monk's suicide on March 16.
A local woman told The Asahi Shimbun in a telephone interview on April 18: "Nearly 100 police officers with police dogs are blockading the monastery. The monks are receiving 're-education' in its compound."
According to an April 15 statement issued by the Tibetan Buddhist leader, the 14th Dalai Lama, the security forces have been stopping supplies to the monastery, one of the most important institutions in Tibetan Buddhism.
The young monk, called Lobsang, walked out of the monastery on the evening of March 16, sources said. He shouted "freedom to Tibet" and "long live the Dalai Lama," doused himself in gasoline and burned himself to death.
Monks in the monastery offered prayers for the dead monk in the afternoon on March 17. About 3,000 local Tibetan residents gathered at the monastery.
China's Xinhua News Agency reported that the 16-year-old monk was transported to hospital but died before dawn on March 17 due to heart and lung failure.
Sources said he did not leave a suicide note or a will, but he was known to be dissatisfied with the Chinese authorities' policies on Tibet. The closing of schools where students could learn in the Tibetan language and the disappearance of the 11th Panchen Lama, a high-ranking leader recognized by the 14th Dalai Lama, had particularly angered him.
According to the U.S. station Radio Free Asia, the suicide triggered unrest not only among monks at the monastery but also among Tibetan residents in the area.
In April, a rumor spread that the Chinese authorities intended to transfer monks from the monastery. To prevent the transfer, several thousand residents gathered around the monastery. Police officers dispersed them using police dogs, but a tense standoff has since developed.
In the statement issued April 15, the 14th Dalai Lama urged the Chinese authorities to change their stance, warning that the situation could get out of control and involve local residents.
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in a news conference on April 19, "All of the lives and religious activities of monks in the monastery are normal."
(This article was compiled from reports by Kenji Minemura in Beijing and Nozomu Hayashi in Guangzhou.)
Thursday, April 14, 2011
14/04 'Stand-off' at Tibetan monastery in Sichuan, China
14 April 2011 Last updated at 10:33 GMT
There are reports of a stand-off between Chinese security forces and residents outside a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Sichuan province.
Local residents were reportedly trying to prevent police from detaining monks inside the Kirti monastery.
The area has been tense since last month, when a monk died after setting fire to himself.
Chinese officials have declined to comment so far. The area has previously seen other anti-government protests.
Pro-Tibetan groups report a deteriorating security situation in Aba County, known as Ngaba in Tibetan, where the monastery is based and where there are many ethnic Tibetans.
They report an increased military build-up, although it is difficult to independently verify these accounts.
Appeal for calmThe International Campaign for Tibet, based in the US, said ordinary Tibetans began gathering outside the monastery a few days ago when the authorities announced that monks would be taken away for re-education.
"We have been told that the police have cordoned off the monastery and the community, in order to prevent monks being detained, surrounded the police," said Thubten Samphel, spokesman for the Tibetan government-in-exile.
The chief monk at Kirti's sister monastery in Dharamsala in India, where many exiled Tibetans live, has appealed for calm on all sides.
But he criticised the Chinese government for its approach in administrating Tibetan areas.
"It must be realised that the people cannot be controlled merely through economic growth and state propaganda," he said in a statement.
Not all Tibetans, including those living inside China's Tibetan Autonomous Region and other provinces, agree with how Beijing governs their regions.
Three years ago there were a series of anti-Chinese riots and protests across these areas. The Chinese government sent in its security forces to put them down.
But much of the animosity seems to remain. Some Tibetans believe that their culture is under threat because of the immigration of Han Chinese into their areas.
Last month a young monk died after setting fire to himself at the Kirti monastery, in what has been described as a protest against the Chinese government.
Beijing admitted that the event had taken place, but it has so far declined to comment on this latest incident.
A foreign ministry spokesman said on Thursday that he had no knowledge of the developments in Aba.
But he added that Beijing's policies in the region were "well received by local people".
"Over the last three decades Tibet has enjoyed remarkable development - as good as the rest of the country in terms of economy and society," he said.
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