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Fearing protests, China issues notice barring self-immolations at horse racing festival

Tuesday, 21 August 2012 08:30 Phayul.com

Chinese armed forces in full riot gear deployed during the Machu horse racing festival in eastern Tibet on August 12 to deter public protests. (Photo/TCHRD)

DHARAMSHALA, August 21: Chinese authorities issued a notice barring Tibetans from setting themselves on fire and deployed hundreds of armed forces during a recently concluded horse racing festival in eastern Tibet.

With the wave of self-immolations continuing to burn across Tibet, local Chinese authorities took stringent measures ahead of the annual horse racing festival at Machu (Chinese: Maqu) in Kanlho, Gansu on August 12 to prevent public protests.

Japanese reconnects with his Taiwan roots

Monday, 20 August 2012 09:06 Taipei Times

Kazuya Shimizu yesterday hugs Mika Tanaka, the lady who helped him locate his place of birth in Hualien County.
Photo: Yang Yi-chung, Taipei Times

Born in Taiwan, but forced to leave his home after Japan lost World War II, Kazuya Shimizu yesterday finally realized his dream of revisiting the site of the village in Hualien County where he was born.

The 70-year-old Shimizu is a wansei, the Japanese term used to describe someone born or who grew up in Taiwan and is a descendant of Japanese immigrants who had come to Taiwan during the Japanese occupation from 1895 to 1945.

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Ngawang Norphel carrying serious burns after his self-immolation protest against China's continued occupation of Tibet on June 20, 2012 in Keygudo, Kham, eastern Tibet.

DAHRAMSHALA, July 30: More than a month after his self-immolation protest, Ngawang Norphel, a young Tibetan passed away in a Chinese hospital in the Tsongon region of eastern Tibet today.

According to his uncle, Tenzin Phegyel, a resident of Dharamshala, Ngawang Norphel’s father was in the hospital at the time of his death.