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The Uneasy Future of the Nepal-China Railway
Tashi Sherpa runs the only teashop in Rasuwa Gadhi on the Nepal-China border, 170 km north of the capital Kathmandu. About 50 meters away, a group of Chinese workers is busy building a bridge that will link the two countries, … Continued The post The Uneasy Future of the Nepal-China read more →
Tibet: Successful Campaign Against Google Search Engine in China
After growing pressure from Tibetan, Chinese and Uyghur rights activists, Google has announced that it will refrain from offering a search engine in the People’s Republic of China. Over the last 10 months, this broad coalition of activists raised its … Continued The post Tibet: Successful Campaign Against Google Search read more →
To restore calm in Hong Kong, try democracy
IT WAS PROBABLY the largest political protest ever staged in Hong Kong. It may have been the biggest in China’s history. Organisers reckon that about 1.9m people joined the demonstration on June 16th. Even during the unrest in Tiananmen Square … Continued The post To restore calm in Hong Kong, read more →
Laws higher than sutras
While Hong Kongers may escape China’s educational scheme to test the monks’ and nuns’ legal knowledge, it will be difficult for Tibetans, Uyghurs or mainlanders to avoid them Chinese President Xi Jinping is travelling a lot these days; he went to Bishkek … Continued The post Laws higher than sutras appeared first read more →
Spy satellites reveal extent of Himalayan glacier loss
By Rebecca Morelle Science Correspondent, BBC News Images from Cold War spy satellites have revealed the dramatic extent of ice loss in the Himalayan glaciers. Scientists compared photographs taken by a US reconnaissance programme with recent spacecraft observations and found that melting in the region has doubled over the last read more →
Event Series Highlights Threats to Tibet’s Glaciers
Tibet accounts for an estimated 14.5 percent of the world’s total glacier mass, but climate change and air pollution are an increasing threat to the nation’s glaciers. The retreat of these glaciers causes grasslands to shrink and permafrost to thaw. It also … Continued The post Event Series Highlights Threats to Tibet’s read more →
What Chinese Citizens Have (and Haven’t) Learned About Hong Kong’s Protests
While the world has focused on Hong Kong over the past week, most of the 1.4 billion people right across the border in China have not. As hundreds of thousands of protesters march in Hong Kong’s streets against unpopular China-backed extradition legislation, … Continued The post What Chinese Citizens Have (and Haven’t) read more →
Inside China’s ‘thought transformation’ camps
The BBC has been given rare access to the vast system of highly secure facilities thought to be holding more than a million Muslims in China’s western region of Xinjiang. Authorities there insist they are just training schools. But the BBC’s visit uncovers important evidence about the nature of the read more →
Sound of Hong Kong’s defiance reverberates in Beijing
Beijing’s public support for Hong Kong leader likely hides private fury, but letting her go would be another humiliation The most obvious casualty of Hong Kong’s extraordinary uprising against chief executive, Carrie Lam, and her campaign to tie the city … Continued The post Sound of Hong Kong’s defiance reverberates read more →
Tibetan human rights group plan Auckland protest against Google’s China expansion plans
A Tibetan human rights group will be protesting outside Google’s Auckland office demanding that the technology giant scrap its plans to launch a censored search engine in China called Project Dragonfly. Friends of Tibet leader Thuten Kesang said it will … Continued The post Tibetan human rights group plan Auckland read more →
China is using hi-tech balloons to spy on India from Tibet
China began to show interest in aerostats in the 1990s, but it was only in 2010-11 that it received three large-sized tethered aerostat systems from a Russian company. New Delhi: China has deployed balloon-borne radars across the Indian frontier in … Continued The post China is using hi-tech balloons to read more →
Nepal schools make Mandarin compulsory after China offers to pay teachers’ salaries
KATHMANDU: A Chinese government’s proposal for covering the salaries of teachers in Nepal who teach Mandarin have prompted many privates schools in the Himalayan nation to make it mandatory for students to learn the language according to a media report. … Continued The post Nepal schools make Mandarin compulsory after read more →
China’s Tiananmen reckoning
Brahma Chellaney, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Read article here The 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre of at least 10,000 people is significant for several reasons. For one thing, the deadly assault on student-led demonstrators remains a dark and hidden chapter … Continued The post China’s Tiananmen reckoning appeared first on read more →
Hong Kong ‘will be over’ if extradition law is passed, activist says
KENJI KAWASE, Nikkei Asian Review chief business news correspondent JUNE 13, 2019 20:32 JST Agnes Chow will continue fight for democracy, but worried of consequences TOKYO — While Hong Kong citizens take to the streets protesting against a controversial extradition law, a prominent pro-democracy activist from the city is in read more →
Hong Kong is in danger. China’s promise of democracy was a lie
Read the original article here. The ninth of June 2019 was a Sunday. Any other Sunday in summer at Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, old men and women would do their usual walkabouts and maids would gather, spread out groundsheets, cover … Continued The post Hong Kong is in danger. China’s read more →