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MUMBAI:
To mark its 58th National Day, China launched its first TV
24-hour channel broadcasting in minority languages - The Tibet
Television Station.
The
new service was upgraded from the previous Tibetan-language
channel which broadcast 21 hours a day, Gongbu Suolang, deputy
editor-in-chief with the Tibet TV Station was quoted as saying
yesterday by Chinese news agency Xinhua as saying.
The
channel mainly targets local peasants and herdsmen, accounting
for about 80 per cent of the 2.8 million Tibetan population
in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, as well as overseas
Tibetans in India and Nepal, according to Gongbu.
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