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Mon 24th May 2021 | 04:40 PM
XINING, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 24th May, 2021 ) :A 7.4 magnitude earthquake that hit northwest China s Qinghai Province early Saturday has left 18 injured and disrupted the lives of over 32,000 local residents, authorities said on Monday.
Among the injured, 17 had been treated and discharged from hospital by 8 a.m. Monday, said Li Jun, an official with the provincial department of emergency management, at a press conference.
One victim remains in hospital and is receiving treatment.
The earthquake jolted Maduo County of the Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture at 2:04 a.m. Saturday. The county is located over 4,000 meters above sea level.
China arrests two for communicating with Tibetans in exile
By Choekyi Lhamo
DHARAMSHALA, Apr. 29: Two Tibetans have reportedly been arrested for communicating with exile Tibetans in Eastern Tibet on April 16, according to rights group
Tibet Watch. Samten Sangpo and Tsultrim from Machen County in Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture were arrested for communicating with exiled Tibetans through the micro messaging app WeChat.
The current whereabouts and the condition of the two men are not known. According to the report, they were last seen when the authorities in Tridu County (Ch: Chenduo) handed them over to Machen County police. Both the detainees are relatives; Tsultrim is Samten’s brother-in-law.
2021-03-16 09:51 By: Xinhua During a deliberation at the annual session of the 13th National People s Congress (NPC) on March 7, Kong Qingju, an NPC deputy from northwest China s Qinghai Province, showed photos of two big cats a snow leopard and a Chinese desert cat to President Xi Jinping. Xi has stressed concrete efforts to give priority to ecology, promote high-quality development and create a high-quality life. After recent years of intensive restoration efforts, the populations of snow leopards, Tibetan wild donkeys, white-lipped deer and alpine musk deer have been expanding as the quality of their habitats was significantly improved.
2021-03-16 09:43 By: Xinhua
BEIJING, March 15 (Xinhua) The world in the past 24hrs. A selection of the best daily press photos from Xinhua.
A watchtower of the Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, is seen shrouded in dust in Beijing, capital of China, March 15, 2021. Beijing was enveloped in yellow dust on Monday morning with visibility at less than 1 km, as the city s meteorological department issued a yellow warning for sandstorms, the third-most hazardous level. (Xinhua/Chen Yehua)
The left photo shows medical worker Zhou Guohong posing with cherry blossom in Wuhan University in Wuhan, central China s Hubei Province, March 13, 2021. The right photo shows Zhou Guohong giving a thumb up at the temporary hospital converted from Wuhan Sports Center in Wuhan, Feb. 12, 2020. Zhou was one of the medical workers from east China s Anhui Province to assist the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan in the spring