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  • ~♥~ His Holiness The Dalai Lama ~♥~

    "Genuine friendship

    can only be based on trust and affection,

    which can only arise

    when there is a mutual sense of concern and respect."

  • According to the release,

    officers from Sichuan provincial

    State Security Bureau arrested

    another Kirti monk, Losang Tashi, 26, on charges of “making contacts

    with foreign countries” in November 2011.

    “He is presumed to be in Chengdu, but nothing more is known of his situation,” the release noted.

  • Fresh protests in Serthar,

    Tibetans call for independence

    DHARAMSHALA, January 18: Tibetans in the eastern Tibetan

    region of Serthar, Kardze carried

    out fresh protests calling for Tibet’s

    independence on Monday.

    According to a report by AP, “dozens of Tibetans,

    including monks, held up a portrait of the Dalai Lama”

    in an act of defiance against Chinese rule. In January alone, four Tibetans in the adjoining regions of Kardze have died after setting themselves on fire demandi

  • The Chinese government should work toward creating a political

    environment that will relax the tensions

    n the Tibetan region," Löning said last week.

    The German Human Rights Commissioner was speaking to representatives of the Tibet Initiative Deutschland (TID) in Berlin.

    Löning said that the recent wave of self-immolations in

    Tibet "is an expression of the sustained discontent and desperation of the Tibetan people in China."

  • His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people receives the Mahatma Gandhi

    International Award for Peace and Reconciliation here at Bodh Gaya. The award was presented by Ela Gandhi(R), granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, Bodh Gaya, India, January 4, 2012. (Phayul photo/Norbu Wangyal)

    [1/4/2012 12:43:00 PM]

  • So I say that the dirty politics must change

    . Who is going to change that? If we pray to

    God please come to India and clean this up,

    it is unrealistic. Young India, you should clean up all these negative things. No one else can,” the Dalai Lama was quoted by ANI as saying.

  • I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. From the moment of birth, every human being

    wants happiness and does not want suffering. Neither social conditioning nor education nor ideology affect this. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment

  • Adding to its well-oiled propaganda machinery,

    Beijing yesterday announced plans to launch its

    first English language periodical on

    “Tibetan studies” targeting “global researchers on Tibet and its culture”.

    A party official said that the publication will focus on Tibet’s “economy, history,

    religion, culture, archaeology, language, traditional medicine, art and folklore”.

  • With folded hands they faced towards

     Kirti Monastery and raised a number of slogans amongst which the audible

    ones were- ‘Long live His Holiness the Dalai Lama’ and ‘We want the return

    of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet,’” a Tibetan in Bodh Gaya had said quoting eyewitnesses.

  • The Dalai Lama's supporters had

    "deceived several naive and young people to self-immolate in order to

    pressure the Chinese government", Zhu said.

    There is scarce information on the two

    Tibetans who self-immolated on January 6 at around 2:40 pm Tibet time in the distraught Ngaba region of eastern Tibet.

    Eyewitness accounts say that the two people, a monk and a layman, were together when they set themselves ablaze.

  • You can approach me directly if you need any help to widen your services and establish new clinics in my state,” said the minister.

    When asked whether

    TMAI has specific plans of approaching the minister for assistance,

    Tsering Phuntsok, the secretary of the

    Tibetan institute signaled that the institute might ask for help to farm medicinal plants in the state which borders Tibet to its north.

  • In a new year’s message,

    the 26-year old Tibetan spiritual

    leader noted the “anxiety” expressed by many people over “disasters that might befall the world” in the new year.

    “If we are sincerely committed to following a path of compassion and wisdom, this uncertainty about the future need not cause us any concern,” Gyalwang Karmapa said.

  • CECC pointed out that China’s heavy-handed reaction

    to the popular 2008 Tibetan uprisings – including intensification of its long-established anti-Dalai Lama campaign; issuing regulatory

    measures that intrude upon and micromanage

    Tibetan Buddhist monastic affairs; implementing aggressive "legal education" to monks and nuns – significantly “worsened” the deteriorating human rights trend in Tibet

  • The Wukan protest, played out in the full glare

    of international media, quickly became a telling point of rising

    public anger in China against official

    corruption and unpopular government

    decisions, deeply hurting the Communist

    Party’s image of stability and social harmony.

  • The authorities

    have emphasised ‘

    security work’ in the

    region, including the

    use of ‘vigilante’ squads, the stepping up of military drilling, and the imposition of more checkpoints

    to monitor people arriving in and leaving the area.

  • China's moral authority in the world hinged upon it finding a solution to the

    Tibetan question, said Sangay,

    according to a post on official

    website of the Central Tibetan

    Administration (CTA).

    "Without morality, Beijing will be feared

    perhaps but it won't be respected and yet this is intrinsic to great power status," he said.

  • His Holiness

    the Dalai Lama and the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa are scheduled to

    attend the Congregation.

    Recently the bi-lateral relation between India

    and China hit turbulent

    waters with heated words exchanged over India’s

    cozying up of relations

    with Vietnam and New Delhi’s “interference” in the South China sea, parts of which both China and Vietnam lay claim over.

  • As a result, many people have never grown up intellectually even though they are adults. Some people still deny that the unprecedented great famine of the early 1960s ever occurred, and insist that the millions of deaths by starvation is a fabrication … There is almost no hope for the sons of ordinary citizens to move up. There is no possibility of them ever becoming an Obama or a Steve Jobs.”
  • Lambasting the

    media in China for

    “promoting the government and not reporting the truth,”

    the novelist grieves that China’s

    education system is “tasked with instructing the people to be loyal

    to the government and keeping

    the people ignorant.”

  • In March this year, a teenage

    Tibetan monk

    named Lobsang

    Rabten fled over

    the Himalayas to

    India after a childhood friend set himself ablaze in protest

    against China's campaign

    of forced 're-education' at their monastery.

  • The patient needs to be hospitalised

    for at least one week,"

    added Yangzom.

    RTYC Dharamshala

    is planning to take

    care of the monk

    even after his

    discharge from the hospital.

  • lan Brown,

    59, who had witnessed the self-immolation, told the Daily Telegraph he had been astonished

    by the speed at which the

    security forces had stepped

    in to douse the flames and then erase any trace of the incident

  • @SauIan Are you saying all the major American media including CNN, the LA Times, The NY Times, The Boston Globe, ABC, NBC and CBS...etc were "hired" by the PRC to cover the 84 year old woman and the pregnant women who were beatan by the White police officers because they were simply exercising their First Amandment rights on American soil? If so, tell us how much did PRC to spend to "hire" CNN. Don't be a chicken, say it and we will tell CNN's Legal Department about your comment, I dare you.

  • Thanks to a photograph taken by a British couple, who were at the Square, and were later published by The Daily Telegraph and BBC, the Chinese man’s sacrifice didn’t get rubbished as another rumour.

  • The process

    of eliminating

    Tibetan culture

     and the removal

    of monks and nuns is a direct violation

    of the freedom of religion.

    The Australian government

    is deeply concerned about reports of self-immolations by monks and nuns

  • The Chinese cabinet determined Wednesday a national nature reserve for headwaters of three major rivers in China, setting a target of vegetation coverage growth at 30 percent in a decade.

  • A State Council executive meeting,

    which was presided over by

    Premier Wen Jiabao,

    made the decision.

  • The nature reserve will cover Qinghai's 21 counties of four Tibetan autonomous prefectures

    and one town of Golmud,

    through which the Qinghai-Tibet Railway passes.

  • The headwaters of the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang rivers in the northwest province

     are important sources of fresh water

    for the whole country

    and essential to

    ecology on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

  • The Lancang River, the upper stream of the Mekong River, runs southward to irrigate a few Southeast Asian countries.

  • The Chinese government started to implement an overall program for the area's ecological preservation in 2005.

  • The government hopes the average vegetation coverage increase in the nature reserve of 15 to 20 percent more in 2015, and of 25 to 30 percent more in 2020.

  • The government also encourages individuals, non-government organizations and social groups to support and get involved in environmental and ecological protection in the area.

  • While expressing sadness over the

    death of six Tibetans

    as a result of setting

    themselves on fire

    since March this year,

    TYC stated that it

    was “empowered

    by their courageous acts”.

  • “We will

    refrain from

    celebrating Tibetan Losar in 2012 and

    instead initiate a

    Special Fund for

    future Free Tibet initiatives,

    ” TYC vice-president

    Dhondup Lhadar told the press conference.

  • It stated that the selection must

    adhere to the principle of upholding the national

    unity and solidarity of all ethnic groups and that

    the selection process cannot

    be influenced by any group

     or individual from outside the country.

  • Members from the SFT will head for Mumbai to meet CEO of the Censor Board and the filmmaker.

    Social networking

    sites like facebook

    and twitter are

    being bombarded with tweets and

     posts expressing disappointment at the censor board’s decision.

  • Need ‘concrete action’

    from the Obama Administration: Dr Sangay (Phayul).

    Kalon Tripa Dr. Lobsang Sangay urged the Obama administration to take a

    stronger stance of Tibet.

    He called for more concrete

    action from the US Congress

    and the Obama administration.

  • "A good immune system can protect your physical

    health but if your mental

    state is disturbed, then

    even a small problem would seem unbearable,

    " the Dalai Lama said.

    Responding to a concern

    expressed by a teacher

    of his students facing emotional distress following

    the tsunami and radiation threat, His Holiness said that it was always beneficial to “share people’s sufferings”

  • @SauIan Sorry Sheila Shigley impersonator, the World Bank just released a report on China's economic growth today and everything is opposite than what you are saying. I guess your supervisor did not show you the right memo? BTW, the Work Bank's report gives China's Central Bank high marks for its economic growth, so if you want to pretend to be an economic expert, why don't you write a report instead of being a Wu Mao online? Maybe you could win the Noble Prize....nope I don't think so!

  • @SauIan Why are the White invaders copying a failed capitalist system and making it WORSE?? Just look at how bad the economy is in America. Vice President Joel Biden went to China several month ago to borrow $200 billion from the CCP "because the US government cannot survival without the $200 billion by the end of 2011," said Joel Biden. If Amercia's system was that good, why does the US need to borrow money from the CCP? Saulan, your 50 cents are from the CCP, just a reminder. :-)

  • The Dalai Lama says ‘

    tremendous desperation’ causing self-immolations, Tells Beijing to look

    into its causes

    Phayul[Friday, November 04, 2011 22:37]

    By Sherab Woeser

  • @SauIan "Who will be believed?" Of course the Chinese because only White invaders like you would kill your own people by committing ethic cleansing. According to the United Nations, 99.99% of the Native Americans have been killed by White invaders who are occupying their land, and the rest are locked up in death camps by the American government on death row.

    You "boycott your country?" How? Moving out from America? Lol! I dare you! Please come up with a better joke WU MAO!

  • DHARAMSHALA,

    November 2: After a spate of

    self-immolations inside Tibet, more than 200 Chinese

    intellectuals and independent writers from outside China

    as well as some from inside China have launched a signature campaign,

    condemning the Chinese repressive policies in Tibet.

  • His Holiness

    the Dalai Lama's

    visit to Okunoin

    on November 1, 2011. Okunoin is the

    site of the mausoleum of Kobo Daishi,

    the founder of Shingon

    Buddhism, and considered

    one the the most sacred sites in Koyasan, western Japan.

  • @SauIan White invaders use a typical terrorist/extortionist approach: threaten the real Sheila Shigley's family.

    Just imagine how this same "government" treats Native Americans, who don't have the benefit of the level of protection Chinese have.

    White invader @Saulan talks on and on about how terrible Chinese are; yet she coddle Chinese, compared to how they treat Native Americans. @Saulan wouldn't dare to touch a Chinese, yet bitch is killing Native Americans like no tomorrow.

  • “The environment is ours; it is on this planet.

    We should overcome

    out short-term interests and think more

    holistically,”

    the Dalai Lama said.

    Expressing his “deep sadness” over the tragedy caused by the recent tsunami, His Holiness, while giving hope to the Japanese people said that he would be visiting the affected areas to “share the painful experience” of the victims.

  • US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that her country "is committed to the success of China" because it is also good for the United States.

    The top US diplomat voiced the commitment in a congratulatory message to the Chinese public ahead of China's National Day on October 1.

    "On behalf of President (Barack) Obama and the people of the United States, I congratulate the people of China as you celebrate your National Day this October 1," she said.

  • From Chinese President Hu Jintao's state visit to the United States in January to the successful third round of the US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue in May, "the US has shown a deep commitment to this important relationship," she added.

  • Attending a reception on Wednesday at the Chinese embassy in Washington, US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns also struck a reconciliatory tone in his speech, saying that the United States welcomes the rise of a strong, prosperous and successful China that plays a bigger role in world affairs.

    He also stressed that cooperation between the two countries would surely benefit both nations as well as the whole world, despite their differences on certain issues.

  • In another development, the US State Department announced Thursday that Kurt Campbell, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, will visit China on October 11 to hold the second round of the US-China Consultations on the Asia-Pacific with Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai.

    The first round of the consultations, an outcome of the third US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue in May, was held in June in Honolulu, Hawaii.

  • “But don’t worry Wait for another

    5 to 10 years”.

    Citing greed

    and extreme self-centredness

    as the cause of all major human problems including the global economic crisis and the earth’s deteriorating ecology, the Dalai Lama called for a more holistic and far-sighted approach.

  • When young,

    you have a lot of enthusiasm

    but lack in patience and experience.

    Things are not so easy to come,” the 76-year old

    Tibetan leader said,

  • The interviews were smuggled out of Tibet at great risk and have been made into a remarkable film, Leaving Fear Behind, which has been seen screened in more than 30 countries and which was secretly shown to journalists on the eve of the Beijing Olympics last year.

    While in prison Dhondup Wangchen was badly

  • Dhondup Wangchen is a Tibetan film-maker who was arrested in March 2008. He had just completed filming an extensive series of interviews with ordinary Tibetans who had bravely voiced to camera their true feelings on the upcoming Beijing Olympics and the Chinese occupation of Tibet.
  • We are

    sincere in

    solving the issue of

    Tibet

    peacefully

     through dialogue.

  • But I will say we

    Tibetans are pursuing

    fundamental principles,

    which people around the world should enjoy - freedom, dignity and identity, that we should enjoy and the rest of the world should support us.

  • Chinese readers eager to learn about the life of Steve Jobs, the enigmatic founder of Apple Inc, have lined up outside bookstores and gone online to order copies of his biography since it was released globally on Monday.

  • The Chinese version of the book, titled Steve Jobs, hit 30 bookstores in 21 Chinese cities, including Beijing and Shanghai, at 10:05 am Monday morning as a way to commemorate Jobs, who died on Oct 5, according to a statement from China CITIC Press, the publisher of the biography's simplified Chinese edition.

  • Liang Hui, an engineer from Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong province, said he bought the authorized biography, sold for 68 yuan ($10.60), as a way of paying his respects to Jobs.

    

  • "I have been a fan of Jobs because of his bold creative spirit since my childhood," he said. "I hope the book will inspire me a lot in my job."

    Major e-retailers, including Dangdang and Joyo Amazon, the Chinese subsidiary of US online retailer Amazon.com have started to deliver pre-ordered copies to customers.

  • The biography, written by Walter Isaacson, a former executive at CNN and the US magazine Time, topped Joyo Amazon's best-seller list on Monday. The book was originally scheduled for release next year but the date was moved up because of the death of Jobs, whose gadgets such as the iPhone and iPod have become a part of many people's lives.

  • The biography like Jobs' products has been well-received in China.

    The Guangzhou Book Center sold 240 copies of the English version on the first day.

    Despite the rainy and chilly weather in Shanghai, Jobs' fans woke up early on Monday morning to queue outside Jifeng Bookstore and Shanghai Book City's two branches.

  • In the queue at Shanghai Book City's store on Fuzhou Road, some senior citizens said they planned to buy two or three copies as gifts for family members.

    Xu Zhiming, president of Kuaishubao, a Beijing-based online book retailer, said his company has sold about 8,000 copies by 6 pm on Monday 3,000 to individuals and an order of 5,000 to a group-buying website.

  • Kong Yan, the publisher's director of brand marketing, said more than 1,000 copies of Steve Jobs had been sold at a launch ceremony at the Beijing Books Building.

    "A teenager queued up from 5 o'clock this morning and two graduate students said they skipped classes for the biography," she said.

  • Meng Lihua, an employee of a bookstore in Beijing Capital International Airport's Terminal 3, said the book interested even her.

    "I have booked one special commemorative copy that will be released in three months," she said.

    

  • Buyers of the 560-page Chinese version said the biography satisfied their curiosity about Jobs, who was known for carefully guarding his privacy.

    Gao Li, a 30-year-old photographer who lives in Beijing, said she had read media reports about Jobs and wanted to learn more about a person who "lived a life he wanted to the most".

  • Most are

    led by monks who are fiercely

    loyal to Tibet's

    exiled Buddhist leader,

    the Dalai Lama,

    who fled the Himalayan region in 1959 amid an abortive anti-Beijing

    uprising and is reviled

    by China's communist government.

    

  • Aba prefecture

    has been the

    scene of numerous protests over the

    past several years against the

    Chinese government.

  • in

    solving the issue of Tibet

    peacefully through dialogue.

  • That shows our sincerity. We

    are sincere

    

  • Making an opening speech to the 2011 China-U.S. Relations Conference held at Texas A&M University, Zhang described China-U.S. relations as "one of the most important and dynamic relationships in the world. "

    The relationship has four distinctive features, said Zhang, noting that "the economic interests of the two countries have been closely interconnected. "

    Last year, bilateral trade between the two countries reached 385 billion U.S. dollars.

  • The U.S. continues to be the No.1 source of foreign direct investment for China and China has become the biggest foreign creditor for the U.S..

    Meanwhile, dialogue and consultation at various levels have increased and improved, said Zhang, citing frequent high level visits and exchanges between the two countries and the establishment of over 60 dialogue and consultation mechanism covering a wide range of areas.

  • Other distinctive features of the China-U.S. relations include the extensive and growing social interactions between the two and the two countries' continued and effective communication and cooperation on many important regional and global issues, according to Zhang.

    "The fundamental reason and driving force lie in the expanding common interests between the two countries and shared responsibilities in ensuring sustainable development and dealing with emerging global challenges," Zhang said.

  • “On the night

    of October 17, Kirti monk Puntsok, age 28 was arrested

    from his room in the

    monastery by policemen who beat him as they took him away,

    while on October 15,

    Kirti monk Jigme Choepel

    of Soruma village, Choeje township, was arrested,” the release said,

  • The exile base of the Kirti Monastery in Dharamshala, in a release yesterday, confirmed the arrest of two more monks from the monastery saying that the reason f or the arrests was “unclear”
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  • During the day, US Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner paid a visit to the Samdupling Tibetan Settlement camp in Jawlakhel, Kathmandu where he met with local community leaders. He also interacted with local Tibetans about the problems they faced and assured them he would raise concerns about the rights of Tibetan refugees.
  • Encouraging the Chinese government to “address the region’s underlying grievances”, the rights group urged for an immediate end to heavy-handed security measures imposed on lay communities and monasteries which include “brutal security raids, arbitrary detentions of monks, i ncreased surveillance within monasteries, and a permanent police presence inside monasteries to monitor religious activities”.
  • These findings suggest t

    hat the increase in

    government spending

    on security has contributed to provocative policing techniques such as

    monastery blockades

    and the mass detentions

    of monks that have repeatedly contributed to local discontent

    and unrest,” the rights group said.

  • Xiaoyan Zhao, senior vice-president at GfK Public Affairs and Corporate Communication, said the same countries have dominated the top 10 list over the years with slight ranking changes because they have consistent reputations and a well-balanced image.

  • "The overall reputation (of a country) is not built overnight, so it will not change overnight," she said.

    Brazil is the highest ranked developing country at the 20th spot. China's position climbed from 26th in 2008 to 22nd this year.

    China ranks third in the cultural heritage index, the best score among the six categories, but performed poorly in governance.

  • Zhao said the rapid economic development and the Beijing Olympic Games have helped change public perception of China since 2008.

    "The Games showed the world the modern side of the country, vibrant cities, stunning architecture and the welcoming people, all of those contributed to the positive image of the country," she said.

  • China is in clear violation of its own laws and international norms with regard to basic human rights,” the release said.

    While appealing to the Chinese government to “immediately release those

    who survived self-immolation”,

    the CTA urged Tibetans

    and supporters “to show

    solidarity with the people

    of Ngaba and to highlight

    the urgency of the grave situation in Tibet”.

  • In an urgent appeal letter, ITN is urging Tibet Support Groups to take part in

    a step by step process t

    o build political pressure on China, through lobbying respective governments and increasing grassroots support as a build up to the G20 summit

    in France from November 3 – 4.

    President Hu Jintao will be representing China at the G20 summit.

  • The 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Australia is right around the corner on Dec. 21, so People's Daily Online sat down with Frances Adamson, Australia’s first female ambassador to China, for an exclusive interview about what is next for the two countries.

  • Still taking Chinese lessons twice a week

    When Adamson, who speaks fluent Mandarin, was asked why she decided to learn Chinese, she said her interest in the language started while she was working at the Australian Consulate-General in Hong Kong 26 years ago.

  • At that time, she came to realize that China will be an important country in the future. Although people speak Cantonese in Hong Kong, she decided to learn Mandarin to better communicate with Chinese officials and ordinary Chinese people

    She noted, "There is nothing more rewarding for me than to have a conversation in China with Chinese people about how I see their lives, the world— the things that are interesting.”

  • She admitted it is very difficult to speak Chinese well, and that is why she is taking lessons twice a week.

    Adamson said there have been amazing changes in Beijing since she first visited the city in 1997. She sees a nation of highly talented people working extremely hard to study, work, create, and to drive the nation forward.

  • Sees opportunities for Sino-Australian cooperation every day

    Since 1972, Australia has established a very constructive and mature trading relationship with China. China is Australia's largest trading partner, and Australia is China's second largest trading partner. She mentioned that Australian exports of iron ore contributed to literally "building modern China."

  • She also noticed nowadays China is very concerned about food safety, and Australia is there to provide fresh, green food. Meanwhile, the Chinese people's interest in wine is growing and Australian wine exports are increasing strongly as well.

  • Besides, Australia provides high-quality language learning courses and university education to Chinese students. Recently, Australia announced permission for Chinese graduates of Australia universities to work there for one to three years. Ms. Adamson believes this will play an important role in building this bilateral relationship in the future.

  • In addition, some universities in both countries have established good working relationships with each other. This will be the focus of future work in the Australian embassy in China.

    In recent years, the Chinese market for foreign vacations has grown, and Adamson said that Australia has many beautiful places to offer.

  • She noticed more and more Chinese people are traveling there to experience the Australian firsthand rather than just watching it through the window.

    Adamson thinks Australia has a lot to offer China that will complement its development and growth. Her focus is on enhancing the bilateral relationship for the future, for the benefit of Chinese and Australian people.

  • On Oct. 7 around 11.30 a.m. two more Tibetans burnt

    themselves in the streets

    of Ngaba county town and protested against Chinese rule," said Dharamsala-based monk Kanyak Tsering, who is in close contact with Ngaba's

    Kirti monastery.

  • It "makes clear that only a change in China's policies can put an end to the cycle of desperation that has compelled these Tibetans to sacrifice so much," said the group's president, Mary Beth Marke

  • Xia said the root of

    the problem lie with the

    government's ideological

    espousal of atheism.

    "Based on the Chinese

    government's current policies, the two sides are going

    to continue to clash," he said

  • "The Chinese government is clearly using politics to control the entire process of transmission and reincarnation," Xia said. "This is a very painful conflict, and it's a very fundamental one."

  • On July, 28th, Tibet's Regional TV & Telephone Economy Briefing was held in Lhasa, reporting that Tibet's first half year saw a major economy leap forward, news with the local newspaper. The briefing released the economic data from January to June, saying that the GDP of Tibet Autonomous Region increased by 16.5 percent than previous year, to 2.5084 billion yuan.

  • According to the briefing the per capita income of Tibetan's farmers and herders in the first half is 1546 yuan, up by 15.2 percent. It has become a common phenomenon for Tibetan people to go to other provinces of the country for work.

    Also, one of Tibet's pillar industry-tourism marks progress as well. About 2.24 million tourists have come to Tibet in the first six months, 24.8 percent higher than the precious year.

  • This year is the first year of the 12th Five-Year Plan, and also the 60th anniversary of Tibet's peaceful liberation and 90th birthday of the Chinese Communist Party. All the favorable conditions urge local authorities to give more impetus to the construction of projects, raise fix assets investment and boost customer consumption.

  • The 'think tank' of Tibet suggests that the government pays close attention to major economic index, facilitat Lhasa-Shigatse railway construction, continue fiscal support to economy, stabilize the CPI index, provide sufficient human resource backup to economy, advocate private capital injecting to market and strive to increase people's income.

  • Everyone who stays has to register with an ID card ... They might even come and do a spot check at night."

    A second guesthouse owner said his business had been closed down by police recently.

    "Yes, it was [the police]," the owner said. "We are closed now."

  • Rising Tensions

    The weekend protest and the self-immolation Monday heightened tensions which looked set to continue in Tibetan regions of China as the ruling Chinese Communist Party marked its 62nd anniversary in power.

  • Similar incidents may have taken place in other monasteries in other regions of Tibet, he said.

    Rising Tensions

    The weekend protest and the self-immolation Monday heightened tensions which looked set to continue in Tibetan regions of China as the ruling Chinese Communist Party marked its 62nd anniversary in power.