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Nepal and China to meet in Lhasa for secretary-level border and trade talks:

Report in The Kathmandu Post ONLINE, March 26, 2023Senior officials from Nepal and China are meeting this week in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, aiming to facilitate bilateral trade and commerce. This is the first meeting of the joint mechanism set up in August last year during the official visit of then foreign minister Narayan Khadka to Qingdao, China. A statement issued after the visit had said the two foreign ministers decided…

Nepal and China to meet in Lhasa for secretary-level border and trade talks:

Report in The Kathmandu Post ONLINE, March 26, 2023Senior officials from Nepal and China are meeting this week in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, aiming to facilitate bilateral trade and commerce. This is the first meeting of the joint mechanism set up in August last year during the official visit of then foreign minister Narayan Khadka to Qingdao, China. A statement issued after the visit had said the two foreign ministers decided…

Tibet Unrest: Three writers face trial

Three Tibetan writers identified as Jangtse Donkho, Buddha and Kalsang Jinpa were tried (Oct.28) by the Aba Intermediate People’s Court in Sichuan province on charges of inciting activities to split the  nation.  All three were detained earlier in July, 2010 by Chinese authorities on charges of writing articles in a local newsletter Shar Dungri (Eastern Snow Mountain) about the 2008 unrest. All three, along with their lawyers and some family members, were present in the…

China’s new regulations on Tibet monasteries seek to undermine Dalai Lama

Tightening its grip over Tibet, Chinese authorities have promulgated new regulations that are designed to snap any possible links between Tibet based monks and India based Dalai Lama. Effective from November 1, 2010, the decree will affect recognition of reincarnations inside Tibet as all the major leaders of four sects of Tibetan Buddhism are presently in India. China is building a dam  on the Salween River near a site considered as sacred by local Tibetans…