lacked safety measures in july also of last year a blast at a chemical plant in you've been in sichuan province left nineteen dead and twelve injured it's said the company had got it out in legal construction work and in twenty fifteen more than one hundred seventy people were killed in a series of explosions in the port city of ten gene authorities blamed incorrect storage of chemicals for that incident. and joining us for more is the double correspondent but he is billing in beijing material it appears to be a common theme there are a carelessness a lack of adherence to safety procedures why does this keep happening in china. well the problem is not regulations the regulations are up to international standards for safety the problem is that these companies ignore regulations and that these regulations are often not enforced by local governments and this is of course because there is a close link often between these governments and the companies the companies are either owed by the state or they are big tax payers and for governments for the most time of the last forty years the most important

there have been several deadly earthquakes in china's sichuan province, prompting thousands of residentsilling. the front of the business times has this on chinese insurers slowly but surely expanding into singapore. the article says china appears poised to use singapore as a springboard into the emerging markets of southeast asia, which have increasingly wealthy populations and a growing middle class. and the us edition of the financial times has this: kim jong un casting his vote in north korea's elections. millions of north koreans are required to take part in the supreme people's assembly elections, in which they are only allowed to endorse the sole candidate. let's return to our top story, the ethiopian airlines crash in which all 157 passengers and crew have been killed. the aircraft, a boeing 737 max—8, is exactly the same model as the one involved in the lion air crash just off the indonesian coast five months ago. our transport correspondent tom burridge has more. debris recovered in october, when another boeing 737 max went down off indonesia. the crash raised questions about a

apartment buildings in many of the new urban centers of tibet and the neighboring provinces of china high gansu or sichuan life is getting better in many ways and the people's republic of china has made enormous investments in the economy and in the infrastructure however course there is a but involved here if you are a tibetan citizen of the people's republic of china you don't feel like such an equal citizen with your hand chinese colleagues or friends so a lot of the things that really matter to a bit to tibetans like education the size of their families family planning their careers the job opportunities for their children just who they interact with when they go to a government office and want to get something done. they definitely feel very pessimistic. very it's an unpleasant experience and they feel like they don't have a lot of control or or decision making power over their lives i think the primary goal of most of it and it would be to receive more respect from the chinese state tags fully. receive the privileges which are guaranteed to them by the chinese constitution the only place where real

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apartment buildings in many of the new urban centers of tibet and the neighboring provinces of china high gansu or sichuan life is getting better in many ways and the people's republic of china has made enormous investments in the economy and in the infrastructure however course there is a but involved here if you are a tibetan citizen of the people's republic of china you don't feel like an equal citizen. when more protests happening in london and other parts of the u.s. even and even central asia the tibetans say they'll continue to rally every year until tibet is free from china. let me thank you for that sarah just some of your comments coming through i just picked up this one this was on the flight a story little bit earlier ethiopia queen bee tweeted to me and said to i guess a little bit earlier you know just because pilots come from africa doesn't mean the pilots are less qualified than former air force personnel from europe and usa i think what he was talking about more was how fast the the technology has advanced and that this is all coming to a lot of these smaller countries in africa and in as

apartment buildings in many of the new urban centers of tibet and the neighboring provinces of china high gansu or sichuan life is getting better in many ways and the people's republic of china has made enormous investments in the economy and in the infrastructure however course there is a but involved here if you are a tibetan citizen of the people's republic of china you don't feel like an equal citizen with your hand chinese colleagues or friends so a lot of the things that really matter it's about to tibetans like education the size of their families family planning their careers the job opportunities for their children just who they interact with when they go to a government office and want to get something done. they definitely feel very pessimistic very it's an unpleasant experience and they feel like they don't have a lot of control or or decision making power over their lives so they feel like second class citizens in the room indeed ok we heard in that report the beijing considers the dalai lama to be a separatist. is that their home or separate is what what is it that he wants what is the best