Dharamshala: Chinese authorities announced Friday that they have asked all Tibetan Buddhist monks who have been helping with relief efforts in the Tibet's Kyigudo (CH: Yushu) region to vacate the quake zone. The official stance is that the monks are being asked to leave in order to facilitate the efforts of specialists being brought in, but the Chinese government has fielded accusations that the monks are being asked to leave for political reasons.

Dharamshala: A Chinese soldier said that if Chinese troops encounter a Tibetan independence activist in the quake area of Kyigudo, he or she could be shot dead on the spot without approval from higher authorities, The Epoch Times reports.

Dharamshala: When the Kyigudo earthquake shook the eastern Tibet Plateau, The ‘ National Vocational School ' in Kyigudo county (CH: Yushu), suffered serious damages and losses of life.

Dharamshala: As thousands of traumatized Tibetans remain without food and shelter following Wednesday's earthquake, many of them say that the full effects of the disaster could take months to fully emerge due to lack of supplies from the Chinese government and slow rescue efforts.

Dharamshala: Chinese estimates of the Kyigudo (Chinese: Yushu) earthquake death toll are far lower than is realistic, according to sources from the region.

Dharamshala: Despite the very public and well promoted rescue effort launched by Beijing in the Yushu region of Tibet that was ravaged by a 6.9 magnitude earthquake on Wednesday, Tibetan Buddhist monks say that it is primarily their assistance and support that has done the most help for the region in its time of crisis.