Tibetans demand China halt Derge dam work
The Chinese government is constructing a hydroelectric dam on the Drichu river in Derge town of Southwest China's Sichuan.
The Chinese government is constructing a hydroelectric dam on the Drichu river in Derge town of Southwest China's Sichuan.
The Chinese foreign minister will be attending the G-20 Foreign Ministers' meeting on Thursday in the National Capital.
Tibetans offer special Sang-Sol prayers on the 3rd Day of Losar, the Tibetan new year. Sang means incense and sol means to wake up.
Last Wednesday's protest is believed to be the second-largest eruption ever since the 2008 uprising where hundreds of Tibetan marched on the streets against the Chinese government.
''Bharat Mata ki Jai,'' some of the protestors, including women, shouted as they stepped on the Chinese flags and burnt them. They demanded that China leave Tibet while appealing to the international community to stand up against Beijing.
The incumbent president Lobsang Sangay after casting his vote in a polling booth in Gangchen Kyishong in Mcleodganj in Dharamshala said the Tibetan democracy-in-exile reflects the true aspirations of our brothers and sisters inside Tibet.
A Central Tibetan Administration official said as the deadly Wuhan coronavirus continues to spread across the world bringing the death toll to nearly 1800, Tibetans of the Tawu region in Tibet wrote to Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama seeking his advice.
China, which regards the Dalai Lama as a separatist, has been increasing its influence in the Himalayan nation that is home to about 20,000 Tibetans.
Jinping is on a two-day visit to Chennai for the second India-China Informal Summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Mahabalipuram.
Beijing says it reserved the right to appoint the Dalai Lama's successor in line with the conventions set by Chinese emperors.
