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How India border stand-off gives China a chance to burnish its global image
Jerome A. Cohen, SCMP Peter A. Dutton For the past month, there has been a tense stand-off between China and India in the tri-border Himalayan region that includes Bhutan. Troubles began when China resumed building a road on the Doklam Plateau, which is disputed between Bhutan and China. India, because read more →
My win is message to those discharging their duties with integrity: Ram Nath Kovind
Indian Express, 20 July 2017 Ram Nath Kovind, fielded by the ruling NDA for the highest office in the land, was elected the 14th President of India Thursday. He will be sworn in on July 25, the first from the BJP and the second Dalit to enter the Rashtrapati Bhavan. read more →
Why China censors banned Winnie the Pooh
Stephen McDonell, BBC, 17 July 2017 Read original story here The blocking of Winnie the Pooh might seem like a bizarre move by the Chinese authorities but it is part of a struggle to restrict clever bloggers from getting around their country’s censorship. When is a set of wrist watches read more →
China’s great game: Tibet occupation means strategic depth and control over Asia river waters
Thubten Samphel, India Today, 14 July 2017 Read the original story here Illustration by Tanmoy Chakraborty The Chinese occupation of Tibet gives Beijing great strategic depth and control over river waters in Asia. The stand-off between India and Bhutan on one side and China on the other at Doklam, a read more →
How to Be a Buddhist in Today’s World
By the Dalai Lama, Opinion, The Wall Street Journal Read the original story here Once people adopt a religion, they should practice it sincerely. Truly believing in God, Buddha, Allah or Shiva should inspire one to be an honest human being. Some people claim to have faith in their religion read more →
Why Chinese leaders were afraid of a man who died in their captivity
By Fred Hiatt, The Washington Post, 13 July 2107 Read original story here. As you read about Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, who died in Chinese captivity Thursday, ask yourself this: Why are his jailers — President Xi Jinping and the rest of China’s Communist regime — so afraid? read more →
Obituary For Mr. Liu Xiaobo
Freedom for Liu Xiaobo Action Group A pioneer of the Chinese democratic transition movement, Mr. Liu Xiaobo, passed away on 13 July 2017 in Shenyang, China because of delayed treatment of his liver cancer, at age 62. In the past thirty odd years Mr. Liu Xiaobo had been vigorously committed read more →
China bears ‘heavy responsibility’ for Liu Xiaobo’s death: Nobel committee
AFP, The Times of India, 13 June 2017 OSLO: The Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Thursday that China bears a “heavy responsibility” for the “premature” death+ of 2010 Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo. The prominent democracy advocate, 61, died+ while still in custody following a battle with cancer. Officials ignored international pleas+ to let him spend his final read more →
Liu Xiaobo, Chinese Dissident Who Won Nobel While Jailed, Dies at 61
Chris Buckley, The New York Times, 13 July 2017 Read the original story here.https://nyti.ms/2vgB9ff BEIJING — Liu Xiaobo, the renegade Chinese intellectual who kept vigil at Tiananmen Square in 1989 to protect protesters from encroaching soldiers, promoted a pro-democracy charter that brought him a lengthy prison sentence and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prizewhile read more →
Will Not Forcibly Relocate Residents From Tibet Area Declared UNESCO Heritage Site: China
By Reuters, The Wire, The Chinese national flag is raised during a ceremony marking the 96th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, July 1, 2017. CNS/He Penglei via REUTERS/Files Beijing: China’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday read more →
White House urges China to release ailing Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo
Firstpost, 13 July 2017 Read the original story here Washington: Concerned that China’s cancer-stricken Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo is not free to seek the medical treatment of his choosing, the US has urged China to grant him full parole and release his wife from house arrest. “We understand the Chinese hospital treating read more →
China’s habit of playing foul
By Kanwal Sibal, The Shillong Times, 13 July 2017 Read the original story here China’s current provocation in the Tibet-Bhutan-Sikkim tri-junction area adds to the long list of its taunting conduct against India in recent years. India, however, has been extremely restrained in reacting to Chinese provocations. Unfortunately, this has read more →
China’s propaganda war over dying Nobel Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo
Read the original story here. Stephen McDonell, BBC News, 11 July 2017 He is China’s number one dissident, described in the press here as a criminal, for others a hero of Chinese democracy. Either way, Liu Xiaobo’s collapsing body is at the heart of a struggle to control the message read more →
NZ’s first Tibetan refugee launches autobiography on Auckland’s North Shore
By LAINE MOGER, North Shore times, New Zealand, New Zealand’s first Tibetan refugee has penned his remarkable life story. Half a century ago New Zealand welcomed its first Tibetan refugee, Thuten Kesang. Now, he is releasing his autobiography, Tibet – The Home I Left Behind, which tells his remarkable life story beginning in Tibet and ending in Auckland’s read more →
How the whole of Tibet was turned into a hellish prison
Read the original story here. The DailyO, 10 July 2017 Thousands and thousands of people were driven into prisons like sheep, innocent people mown down like hay, rolled like paper, kneaded like hide, crammed into the dark recesses of dungeons; bound with steel wire when there were no handcuffs and read more →