Beijing - Tibetan legislators proposed Friday to set aside March 28 as Serfs Emancipation Day, to commemorate the emancipation of millions of serfs in the region 50 years ago, state news agency Xinhua reported.
The motion will be reviewed by about 400 lawmakers of the regional People's Congress, it said.
If approved, the measure would help Tibetans and the whole Chinese nation to remember history, according to Legqog, director of the standing committee of the regional legislature.
Serfs and slaves were freed 50 years ago after the central government foiled an armed rebellion staged by the Dalai Lama and his supporters with assistance from some Western powers, Xinhua said.
Johannesburg, Jan. 16: Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has claimed that the Robert Mugabe''s regime is ''collapsing''.
Speaking in Johannesburg, the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) told The Daily Telegraph: "It's already collapsing. "They can''t pay the police, they can''t pay soldiers, they can''t pay civil servants.
"There''s a lot more dysfunction in Zanu-PF than we are able to appreciate," he added.
Washington - US President George W Bush in his farewell address Thursday said there can be "little debate" that the controversial decisions he's made during his presidency have kept the United States safe.
Bush took up many of the themes that defined his eight years in office as he made his final speech to the nation as president. He warned that terrorism remains the "gravest threat to our people," more than seven years after the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.
London - A waxwork of US president-elect Barack Obama was unveiled Thursday at Madame Tussauds waxwork museum in London, where US citizens will have free entry on inauguration day next Tuesday.
Obama's wax likeness has him standing, arms crossed, in a recreation of the White House's Oval Office, complete with the desk and the carpet embossed with the presidential seal of office.
Liz Edwards of Madame Tussauds said it had not been easy to create the figure, as studio artists had to rely on photographs and research.
Nairobi/Khartoum - Sudanese opposition leader Hassan al- Turabi has been arrested for saying that President Omar Beshir should face war crimes charges in relation to the Darfur conflict, reports said Thursday.
Al-Turabi's wife Wisal al-Mahdi told the Sudan Tribune that security agents came for the leader of the Popular Congress Party (PCP) just before midnight on Wednesday.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague is deliberating whether to issue an arrest warrant for Beshir.
Taipei - Taiwan on Thursday began to check its security firewall after an employee in the presidential office and his friend were detained on suspicion of spying for China.
"President Ma Ying-jeou has instructed us to cooperate with the judicial investigation and to examine the integrity of our staff," Presidential Office spokesman Wang Yu-chi told a news conference.
He said that at this stage, the presidential office treats the incident as a judicial case, and refused to discuss details.
Johannesburg, Jan. 16: Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has claimed that the Robert Mugabe''s regime is ''collapsing''.
Washington - US President George W Bush in his farewell address Thursday said there can be "little debate" that the controversial decisions he's made during his presidency have kept the United States safe.
London - A waxwork of US president-elect Barack Obama was unveiled Thursday at Madame Tussauds waxwork museum in London, where US citizens will have free entry on inauguration day next Tuesday.
Nairobi/Khartoum - Sudanese opposition leader Hassan al- Turabi has been arrested for saying that President Omar Beshir should face war crimes charges in relation to the Darfur conflict, reports said Thursday.
Taipei - Taiwan on Thursday began to check its security firewall after an employee in the presidential office and his friend were detained on suspicion of spying for China.
