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A monk set himself on fire Sunday in an ethnic Tibetan area of northwest China, the country’s official news agency reported. […] Qinghai neighbors Tibet. More than 100 people have self-immolated in Tibetan areas since 2009 to protest Chinese restrictions on Buddhism and denigration of the Tibetans’ spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, who lives in India. …

We're all familiar with the concept of modern technology having ancient Chinese analogues. But a 2002 discovery in remote Qinghai province is anachronistic enough to constitute an OOPart. Out-of-place-artifacts are so unusual, or found in such improbable contexts, that mainstream science has no plausible explanation for them. The crystal skulls of Mexico referenced in the latest Indiana Jones movie, the iron pillar of Delhi, and the ancient Greek Antikythera mechanism are examples of OOPart yet to be explained. Like these, the pipes of Qinghai's Mount Baigong suggest a level of technology simply inconceivable for the apparent era of their manufacture. Those...

Bird flu outbreak confirmed in Xinjiang www.chinaview.cn 2005-06-09 14:04:56 BEIJING, June 9 (Xinhuanet) -- The Ministry of Agriculture Thursday confirmed a bird flu outbreak in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, saying the situation was under control. The national bird flu reference laboratory confirmed that the latest death of geese in a backyard farm in Tacheng City of Xinjiang was caused by the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus. A total of 1,042 geese were affected and 460 of them had died, the laboratory said. The local government has taken emergency measures, having the affected areas isolated and slaughtering...

Ancient European remains discovered in Qinghai www.chinaview.cn 2004-07-06 15:32:53 XINING, July 6 (Xinhuanet) -- Archeologists confirmed that the human skeletons discovered this May in northwest China's Qinghai Province belonged to three Europeans who lived in China over 1,900 years ago. "The physical characteristics of the bones showed it is a typical European race," said Wang Minghui, an expert with the archeological institute under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The skeletons were spotted at Zhongchuan Town of the province's eastern most Minhe Hui and Tu Autonomous County. Since 2002, archeologists have unearthed nine tombs of Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)...

An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale struck Delhi city in northwest China's Qinghai Province at north latitude 37.5 degrees and east longitude 96.8 degrees. The epicenter is about 50 kilometers apart from the city, according to China's Seismological Forecast Network on Thursday. An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale struck Delhi city in northwest China's Qinghai Province at north latitude 37.5 degrees and east longitude 96.8 degrees. The epicenter is about 50 kilometers apart from the city, according to China's Seismological Forecast Network on Thursday.