Beijing - The Chinese government and Tibetan exiles on Friday marked the 50th anniversary of communist rule over Tibet with very different slants on the region's history.
Communist Party officials and state-approved Tibetan Buddhist leaders held a seminar in Beijing to celebrate "Serfs Emancipation Day," a newly decreed public event that officially falls on Saturday.
Beijing, Mar. 26 : Even as Indian capital New Delhi continues to wrestle with the myriad obstacles coming in the way of it hosting the 2010 Commonwealth Games between October 3 and 14, China has announced plans for the global broadcast of XVI Asian Games to be held in the same year.
Though it has held several Games-related review meetings, New Delhi is yet to decide on who is going to handle the coverage of the event.
Beijing - Officials in south-western China's Sichuan province have persuaded Tibetans to end a boycott of spring farming in support of the exiled Dalai Lama, Chinese state media and US-funded Radio Free Asia reported on Thursday.
The officials in Sichuan's Kardze (Ganzi) prefecture visited Tibetan families in farming villages after a boycott began in early March, the Chinese government's Xinhua news agency said.
Beijing, Mar. 26 : The Chinese Foreign Ministry has categorically rejected the Obama administration's charge that it is altering the military balance in Asia.
Commenting on the Pentagon report, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said here that the report was a "gross" misrepresentation of facts" and urged Washington to halt the annual publication.
Beijing, Mar 26 : Professor Lin Zhe, an anti-corruption expert at the Central School of the Communist Party of China has said that the online community is becoming a major force in curbing corruption in China.
The China Daily quoted Zhe as saying that corrupt officials should be wary of the eyes behind the Internet.
Beijing - A Chinese man died after catching his girlfriend as she jumped from the seventh floor of an apartment block in the south-eastern city of Quanzhou, local media reported on Wednesday.
The young man, identified only by the surname Wang, held out his arms to break the woman's fall as she plummeted from their apartment in the city on Tuesday evening, the Straits Capital News (Haixia Dushi Bao) reported on its website.
Beijing - The Chinese government and Tibetan exiles on Friday marked the 50th anniversary of communist rule over Tibet with very different slants on the region's history.
Beijing, Mar. 26 : Even as Indian capital New Delhi continues to wrestle with the myriad obstacles coming in the way of it hosting the 2010 Commonwealth Games between October 3 and 14, China has announced plans for the global broadcast of XVI Asian Games to be held in the same year.
Beijing - Officials in south-western China's Sichuan province have persuaded Tibetans to end a boycott of spring farming in support of the exiled Dalai Lama, Chinese state media and US-funded Radio Free Asia reported on Thursday.
Beijing, Mar. 26 : The Chinese Foreign Ministry has categorically rejected the Obama administration's charge that it is altering the military balance in Asia.
Beijing, Mar 26 : Professor Lin Zhe, an anti-corruption expert at the Central School of the Communist Party of China has said that the online community is becoming a major force in curbing corruption in China.
Beijing - A Chinese man died after catching his girlfriend as she jumped from the seventh floor of an apartment block in the south-eastern city of Quanzhou, local media reported on Wednesday.
