Across China: Tibet

Riot victims resume work

Businessmen who suffered losses in last year's March 14 riot in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet autonomous region, have resumed their businesses, information portal cnr.cn reported yesterday. Tibet's Department of Human Resources and Social Security has distributed more than 34 million yuan ($4.96 million) worth of compensation to 883 owners of stores that suffered damage in the riot and to 10,755 jobless people who worked in the private sector and had been laid off in the aftermath of the violence. Businesses affected in the riot have restored their operations and the unemployed have new jobs with assistance from local authorities, the report said.