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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

China begins demolishing buildings and evicting residents at Larung Gar in Tibet, one of the largest religious institutes in the world. Officials put forward overpopulation and security as the leading reasons for the planned action.
2016-07-22

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

For the first time a series of self-immolations have reached the Tibetan capital of Lhasa when two Tibetans set themselves on fire.
2012-05-28

A Tibetan protester self-immolates during a protest in the Indian capital New Delhi, ahead of a visit by the Chinese president Hu Jintao.
2012-03-26

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

China describes Tibetan monks that have self-immolated as "criminals" and accuses the Dalai Lama of supporting the acts.
2012-03-7

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