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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 →
The Tibetan nomad traditions defying the modern world
BBC, 18 August 2016 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 place to call home. For generation after read more →
Where Do China-India Relations Stand After the Chinese Foreign Minister’s Visit?
Sushma Swaraj and Wang Yi. Credit: PTI By R.S. Kalha on 18 August 2016 – The Wire China’s idea of bilateral relations seems to be to aggressively push their national interests while dismissing India’s concerns as unimportant. Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi was in Delhi on August 13, 2016 for read more →
China’s Empty Oceans
By Adam Minter, Aug 17, 2016 Bloomberg On Wednesday, Indonesia celebrated its Independence Day with a bang — blowing up several Chinese boats that had been caught fishing illegally in its waters and impounded. China doesn’t dispute Indonesia’s territorial claims, but Chinese fishermen have more pressing concerns. According to reports read more →
A Writer’s Quest to Unearth the Roots of Tibet’s Unrest
A Writer’s Quest to Unearth the Roots of Tibet’s Unrest The New York Times / By LUO SILING AUG. 14, 2016 Generations of Chinese have been taught that the Tibetan people are grateful to China for having liberated them from “feudalism and serfdom,” and yet Tibetan protests, including self-immolations, continue read more →
Trillions in Murky Investments Could Rock China’s Economy
By Keith Bradsher, AUG. 12, 2016 – The New York Times SHANGHAI — The deal could be hard to resist. A Shanghai investment firm is offering a fat return of up to 10 percent a year, handily beating both the local stock market and the paltry payouts from bank accounts. read more →
Rio 2016: Does the Chinese public have a victim narrative?
BBC, 12 August 2016 One week into the Olympic Games and Chinese patriots have a lot of complaints. A brief shortlist might start with judges biased against Chinese athletes. In all Rio venues, the points of the gold stars on the Chinese national flag were misaligned. On one occasion where read more →
A Writer’s Quest to Unearth the Roots of Tibet’s Unrest
By Luo SIling, New York Times, 14 August 2016 On March 10, 1959, several thousand Tibetans, fearing that the Chinese might abduct the Dalai Lama, gathered at the Norbulingka summer palace to protect the Tibetan spiritual leader. Credit The Office of Tibet, Washington, D.C. Generations of Chinese have been taught read more →
Xinhua commentary hints at NSG-SCS quid pro quo
Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi meeting Goa Governor Mridula Sinha at Raj Bhavan in Donapaula, Goa on Friday. A Xinhua write-up that appeared on Friday underscored that India should not consider that its entry into the NSG is “tightly closed,” indicating a softening of Beijing’s stand on the entry read more →