Thousands of Chinese workers in Jiangsu and Guangdong provinces have clashed with police in separate strikes in recent days over excessive overtime and poor pay.More than 3,000 workers at the Taiwan-invested electronics company Power Success (Kun Shan) Ltd gathered outside their factory in Jiangsu on Wednesday, calling for talks with management, who instead called the police.Police had beaten a number of workers during clashes outside the factory.Meanwhile, in the southern province of Guangdong, workers at the Jingmo Electronics Factory in Shenzhen's No.

Chinese authorities in a Tibetan region of southwestern Sichuan province have again dispatched security forces to troubled Kirti monastery.Kirti, located in Ngaba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, has been the scene this year of repeated self-immolation protests against rule by Beijing.The monastery had held a large prayer meeting at the weekend to mark an important date in the Tibetan Buddhist calendar, said Kanyag Tsering, a monk living at Kirti's sister monastery in India, citing sources in the region."Pretty much everyone from the Gelugpa sect attended," Tsering said, in a reference to the re

Thousands of villagers protested Monday in southern China’s Guangdong province against abuse of power by local officials and called for fair elections, according to eyewitnesses.The protest occurred in Lufeng city, where one of the earliest peasant uprisings fueled the Communist revolution in the 1920s.Ironically, during Monday’s demonstration, local peasants who once supported the Chinese Communist Party, unfurled slogans such as “End Corruption,” “No to Dictatorship,” and “Human Rights for All.”The protesters were from Wukan village in Donghai township, and numbered several thousands, eyewit

Chinese authorities called in 3,000 riot police at the weekend to quell a mass protest by villagers who attacked an industrial park in southern Guangdong province over a longstanding land dispute, according to police and news reports.The attack by several thousand villagers, armed with petrol bombs, clubs and stones, was sparked by reports that an official had illegally sold their rice paddy land for conversion to an industrial zone in Zhongshan city without compensating them.Zhongshan police said in a statement that residents of Yilong Village "attacked" the park on Saturday by "smashing, loo

A Tibetan Buddhist monk, believed to be around 30 years old, set himself on fire in Kathmandu around 7 a.m today in an apparent gesture of solidarity to the spate of self-immolations by fellow Tibetans inside Tibet in recent months.Bystanders at the time of the fire protest near Boudha stupa intervened and doused the fire leaving the monk, who cannot be immediately identified, partly injured.A witness at the scene told Tibet Express correspondent that the monk was carrying a Tibetan national flag and raising slogans demanding “Free Tibet.”A large crowd has reportedly gathered near the Stupa to

Chinese authorities in Tibet are forcing the return of monks and nuns to a monastery abandoned following a bomb attack on a government building, warning senior leaders that they could be shot if they fail to heed the order, according to sources in Tibet.At least 10 of the monks and nuns have been unaccounted for following the Oct.26 bombing in the Chamdo prefecture,which took place in the early morning hours and caused no injuries.But it brought Chinese security forces into the area in large numbers, leading the monks and nuns of nearby Karma monastery—suspected of involvement in the blast—to

A Tibetan monk badly burned last month in a self-immolation has refused a Chinese offer of medical help, saying that he regrets not having died in his protest, according to a Tibetan source.Dawa Tsering, 31, set himself ablaze on Oct. 25 during an annual gathering at a monastery in the Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture after calling on Tibetans to unite against Beijing’s rule in Tibetan-populated areas, witnesses said.

Chinese authorities in the Tibetan capital Lhasa have closed an exhibition of Tibetan art amid growing efforts by Tibetans to assert their cultural and national identity in a region increasingly dominated by Han Chinese.The exhibition, which was shut down two hours after it opened, included modern paintings and a display of wooden writing boards called jangshing, traditionally used to teach the written Tibetan language.Authorities may have shut down the exhibition by Tibetan artist Kalnor because of the sensitivity of Tibetans displaying traditional cultural themes.There are heavy restrictions

Today, at around 12.40 pm, a nun in Tawu County, Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (TAP), set herself afire in protest against the Chinese government amid the continued repression of religious freedom and human rights in Tibet.Palden Choesang, 35 years old, shouted slogans such as “Freedom in Tibet,” “Long live H.H the Dalai Lama,” and “Let the Dalai Lama return to Tibet” before she self-immolated near Namgyal Stupa, a huge stupa in Tawu County.Latest reports state that nun Choesang died from severe burn injuries. Her body is being kept at Tawu Nyatso Monastery at this moment.