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China’s Top Secret Stealth Fighter Spotted In Tibet Days After It Warned India
China’s stealth figher J-20 spotted at world’s highest civilian airport at 14,000 feet Written by Vishnu So, 2 September 2016 – NDTV New Delhi: Days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi travels to China for the G-20 summit, an image has appeared of China’s first stealth fighter, the J-20, reportedly at read more →
A longest serving Han party cadre in the TAR promoted to become its new boss
By Tenzin Tseten, Tibetpolicy.net Wu Yingjie In the latest regional leadership transition, Wu Yingjie, a 59 year Han party cadre was named the Party Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region, replacing Chen Quanguo. Wu was a deputy Party Secretary of the TAR before his new appointment. He spent over 40 read more →
Chinese dissidents urge Obama to press Xi Jinping on human rights at G20
The Guardian, 31 August 2016 Chinese dissidents have urged Barack Obama to confront Xi Jinping over what they called China’s worst human rights crisis since the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown when he travels to the G20 economic summit in Hangzhou this week. During a meeting at the White House on Tuesday read more →
India’s alliance with US may irritate China, Pakistan and even Russia: Chinese media
India and US today signed denfense logistics suport agreement. (Picture for representation). By Ananth Krishnan, India Today – 30 August 2016 “If India hastily joins the US alliance system,” an editorial in the Global Times suggested, “it may irritate China, Pakistan or even Russia. It may not make India feel read more →
China’s Communist Party names new chief for Tibet in party reshuffle
The Canberra Times, August 28 2016 Beijing: China’s ruling Communist Party appointed a new senior official on Sunday to run Tibet, considered one of the country’s most politically sensitive positions due to periodic anti-Chinese unrest in the devoutly Buddhist Himalayan region. The official Xinhua news agency named Wu Yingjie as read more →
A woman’s gruesome hanging shocked Tibet — but police have silenced all questions
Tsering Tso’s grandmother, Lhadhey, 83, and mother, Adhey, 49, on the grasslands outside the small town of Chalong in China’s western Sichuan province. Last October, Tibetans protested in Chalong after 27-year-old Tsering Tso was found hanged from a bridge in the town, prompting mass arrests, beatings and a government crackdown. read more →
Xi’s day at the beach
20 August 2016 – The Economist The leadership’s annual retreat will not have been relaxing RESPLENDENT in a pleated chef’s hat, Yang Zhibin supervises the kitchens of Kiessling’s restaurant in the resort town of Beidaihe, where he has worked since 1971 and where, every August, China’s political elite gathers for read more →
Self immolation could soon be a crime in Tibet
Indian Express, 24 August 2016 Over 125 Tibetans, including several monks, committed self immolation in the last few years demanding the return of the Dalai Lama from exile. China plans to include self immolation protests in Tibet in separatism-related crimes, officials said even as they refuted reports that monks are read more →
How good is Tibet’s Beijing-backed search engine?
Yongzim’s ‘news’ sections leads to Chinese state media BBC, 24 August 2016 This week saw the launch of the very first search engine in the Tibetan language. Yongzim, backed by the Chinese authorities, claims to be better at handling complex searches involving several words in the language than any alternative. read more →
GENDER AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH – TIBETANS IN TIBET AND IN INDIA
From http://www.tibetanfeministcollective.org/ GENDER AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH – TIBETANS IN TIBET AND IN INDIA AUGUST 20, 2016 By Tenzin Tseyang Reprinted with permission from author’s blog “I know I will die. Many of my friends like me died” wept my newly arrived Tibetan cousin from Tibet as the doctor in Dharamsala, India read more →
The three factors that are threatening yaks in the Himalayas
By Omair Ahmad, Aug 20, 2016 – Scroll.in Interbreeding with cows of Gilgit-Baltistan, or yaks of China, could help revive the animal’s population. The yak is one of the most enduring symbols of the high Himalayas. Whether you visit Tibet, Bhutan, India or Nepal, you will inevitably find tourist shops read more →
How China Keeps Tibet and Xinjiang Silent
By Nithin Coca, The Daily Dot, 20 August 2016 The slow creep and chilling effect of China’s censorship In late March, a mother of five, Sonam Tso, died after self-immolating in protest against Chinese rule outside a monastery in broad daylight. The horrific event took place in Dzoege County, within read more →
Support Dalai Lama for return to Tibet: Lawmakers to Barack Obama
Indian Express, 19 August 2016 The letter asks Barack Obama to publicly and regularly call for the immediate and unconditional release of all Tibetan political prisoners held by the People’s Republic of China A group of 72 American lawmakers have asked US President Barack Obama to publicly support the right read more →
Tibet’s exiles in India confront an uncertain future
Nikkei Asian Review, 18 August 2016 DHARAMSALA, India — There was only one student in the classroom. “There were 12 or 13 students several years ago,” said the lonely-looking man in his 20s studying computer graphics in the corner. The classroom is at a boarding school in Dharamsala, in northern read more →
The Tibetan nomad traditions defying the modern world
BBC News / 18 August 2016 / From the section China Despite decades of change and development, nomads still migrate to the Tibetan Plateau every summer, from where China Correspondent Stephen McDonell reports. There was a time here when tribal Tibetans roamed across a vast dramatic landscape with no specific read more →