New Delhi, Mar 14 : The National People''s Congress (NPC), China''s top legislature, has expressed strong indignation and opposition to a European Parliament resolution on Tibet.
"We are strongly indignant with and opposed to the act that intervenes in China's internal affairs, damages China-Europe relations and hurts the Chinese people's feelings," the NPC Foreign Affairs Committee said in a statement.
Beijing - Troops in full battle dress patrolled Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, on Saturday as the anniversary of last year's anti-Chinese protests and rioting in the city was marked largely with silence amid the heavy security.
The semi-official China News Service showed a photograph of two schoolchildren walking past a dozen soldiers in combat gear in the deserted Barkhor market street in the centre of Lhasa.
"Anniversary of the 'March 14' sacrifice: behind every statistic is grief and terror," said the agency's headline above a story that reflected the government's focus on the 18 Chinese civilian deaths in last year's rioting.
Beijing - Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday defended China's policies in Tibetan areas, saying they had achieved economic development and led to "peace and stability."
"The situation in Tibet is on the whole peaceful and stable," Wen told reporters in the first remarks by a top Chinese leader since Tuesday's 50th anniversary of a failed Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule.
The government's policies and legislation had "provided for the freedom and rights of the people of Tibet, particularly their freedom of religion," he said.
New York - The dispute involving China over Tibetan sovereignty can be resolved like any other conflict by the creation of "very harmonious atmosphere worldwide," UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday.
Ban made the description of a hoped-for forum to settle the long- running dispute over Tibet at a news conference where he was asked for his reaction to a comment by the Dalai Lama, who had criticized Chinese oppression in his homeland.
Taipei - The Dalai Lama's envoy to Taiwan Thursday blasted China's claim that the Dalai Lama's reincarnation must be endorsed by Beijing, saying it should be endorsed by the Tibetan people.
Dawa Tsering, head of the Dalai Lama's representative office in Taipei, made the response after Qiangba Puncog, chairman of the Tibetan regional government, said the Beijing government must endorse the Dalai Lama's reincarnation and would not recognize any reincarnation chosen by the Tibetan government-in-exile or pro-Dalai Lama monasteries.
New York, Mar 12 : The revered 73-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, is China's best hope for resolving its dispute with Tibetans, an editorial in the New York Times claims.
Though the Dalai Lama has so far managed to deflect demands for independence, Tibetans are increasingly getting frustrated, and according to the article, when the Dalai Lama dies, Beijing will lose its best interlocutor.
New Delhi, Mar 14 : The National People''s Congress (NPC), China''s top legislature, has expressed strong indignation and opposition to a European Parliament resolution on Tibet.
Beijing - Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday defended China's policies in Tibetan areas, saying they had achieved economic development and led to "peace and stability."
New York - The dispute involving China over Tibetan sovereignty can be resolved like any other conflict by the creation of "very harmonious atmosphere worldwide," UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday.
Taipei - The Dalai Lama's envoy to Taiwan Thursday blasted China's claim that the Dalai Lama's reincarnation must be endorsed by Beijing, saying it should be endorsed by the Tibetan people.
New York, Mar 12 : The revered 73-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, is China's best hope for resolving its dispute with Tibetans, an editorial in the New York Times claims.
