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China operationalises first electric bullet train in Tibet's Nyingchi, located close to Arunachal Pradesh
•The Lhasa-Nyingchi section of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway has been inaugurated ahead of the centenary celebrations of the ruling Communist Party of China on 1 July
Dalai Lama says Tibetans will themselves choose next leader after his death, will reject any individual imposed by China
•Pondering what might happen after his death, the Dalai Lama anticipated some attempt by Beijing to foist a successor on Tibetan Buddhists
KP Sharma Oli in China: Nepal PM to hold talks with Premier Li Keqiang, expected to sign infrastructure projects
•Nepal prime minister KP Sharma Oli on Monday left for China where he will hold talks with his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang.
Co-pilot sucked halfway out of Sichuan Airlines' aircraft after cockpit window breaks at 32,000 feet over China
•A plane carrying 128 people made an emergency landing in southwest China on Monday after a cockpit window broke at 32,000 feet, sucking the co-pilot partly out of the aircraft, authorities and the pilot said
China opens new highway in Tibet close to Arunachal Pradesh border
•China opened a 409-kilometre new expressway costing about $5.8 billion linking Tibet's provincial capital Lhasa with Nyingchi, which is close to Arunachal Pradesh border.
Climate change: Tibet wettest in 2010 in 3,500 years
Fp Archives •Recent decades have likely been the wettest on record in the semi-arid Tibetan plateau, researchers say, warning that any further large-scale warming might lead to even greater rainfall in Tibet, the birthplace for Asia's great rivers. The wettest individual year reconstructed in 3,500 years in northeastern Tibet is 2010, say climate researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in an online paper in US academic journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It says precipitation during the past 50 years in the plateau has been historically high
No more Chinese consulates in India until we get one in Lhasa
Fp Archives •India's case for establishing a Consulate in Lhasa is stronger than the US, which is playing hardball diplomacy with China on Tibet.