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The government of India withdraws the Indian Wushu team from the Summer World University Games in Chengdu, China, in order to protest against the issuance of Chinese stapled visas to three of the athletes who are from the state of Arunachal Pradesh, as the issuance of such visas is seen as an attempt by China to assert territorial claim over the state.
2023-07-27

A ~8 m asteroid falls over Nangqên, in western China on the Qinghai-Tibet border. This was the largest asteroid to hit Earth since the Kamchatka meteor in 2018, and the largest to fall over land since the Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013.
2020-12-23

2013 Gyama Mine landslide: A large landslide buries 83 gold miners in China's Tibetan Autonomous Region near Lhasa.
2013-03-29

A Tibetan monk sets himself on fire near Boudhanath in Nepal in protest of the Chinese occupation of Tibet.
2013-02-13

A Tibetan teenager dies after self-immolating in Gansu, China, in the seventh such incident this week and 70th since 2009.
2012-11-11

Hundreds of Tibetan students and monks protest against education policies in China's western Qinghai Province, shortly after a series of self-immolations by Tibetan monks.
2012-11-9

A Tibetan man sets himself on fire in Sichuan, in the latest in a series of protests against Chinese rule.
2012-08-7

A Tibetan monk sets himself on fire in southwest China, in the latest in a series of similar incidents where nearly 30 monks have now self-immolated.
2012-03-17

Thousands demonstrate against Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit, against the background of a dispute between Japan and China over islands in the East China Sea, condemning “Chinese imperialism” while waving the flags Tibet, East Turkestan and south Mongolia.
2010-11-13

More than 300 kilograms of drugs - opium, morphine, ice (methamphetamine hydrochloride), ketamine and dancing outreach - are incinerated in the suburbs of Lhasa, Tibet.
2010-07-1