China denies Tibet tourists ordered out

Posted on March 17, 2008 11:52 PM | | Comments (0)

By Channel NewsAsia
March 17, 2008

China denied on Monday that foreigners had been ordered out of Tibet but advised against travel to the restive Himalayan region following a week of anti-Chinese violence.

"We have not asked foreign companies in Tibet to immediately leave the region," the chairman of Tibet's local government, Qiangba Puncog, told reporters at a hastily-called news conference in Beijing.

He had been asked to respond to reports that foreigners seeking entry to Tibet were being denied necessary permits.


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