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Tibetan voices on China’s control
By John SudworthBBC News, Aba Tibetan region, Sichuan province 20 October 2015 From the sectionChina Media caption Inside Tibet: John Sudworth visits Aba to see what people there make of Britain’s strengthening ties with China The first thing that strikes you about the monasteries clinging to the side of the mountains read more →
Climate change: Tibet sees receding glaciers, shrinking permafrost
By Vishal Gulati, IANS, The Economic Times, 20 October 2015 DHARAMSALA: The Tibetan plateau, home to the third largest store of ice that feeds Asia’s six great rivers, is highly vulnerable to climate change, researchers say, warning that over two-thirds of the glaciers could disappear by 2050. Tibet is increasingly read more →
China state visit: Is Tibet silence the price for UK-China ties?
19 October 2015 Last updated at 23:58 BST Three years ago, China froze all high-level contact with the UK when Prime Minister David Cameron met the Dalai Lama, the Spiritual leader of Tibet. But relations between the two countries thawed significantly after Mr Cameron said he had no plans to read more →
Dalai Lama says climate change destroying Tibet’s “roof of the world”
By Andrew MacAskill, Reuters, 20 October 2015 Oct 20 Tibet’s exiled leaders, including the Dalai Lama, said on Tuesday two-thirds of the glaciers in their mountain homeland may disappear by 2050 because of climate change and demanded a stake in international climate talks later this year. The Tibetan plateau, which read more →
Dalai Lama says strong action on climate change is a human responsibility
Associated Press, 20 October Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader says humans causeed global warming so must now take action to protect fragile environments including Himalayan glaciers The Dalai Lama on Tuesday urged strong global action to limit global warming and to protect fragile environments, including the Himalayan glaciers and Tibetan plateau. read more →
Dalai Lama calls action on climate a ‘human responsibility’
By Katy Daigle | AP October 20 NEW DELHI — The Dalai Lama on Tuesday urged strong global action to limit global warming and to protect fragile environments, including the Himalayan glaciers and Tibetan plateau. Calling climate change a “problem which human beings created,” the 80-year-old Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader said all read more →
Red Carpets, Protests to Greet China’s Xi in Britain
Katherine Haddon, AFP, Yahoo News UK, 20 October, 2015 LONDON: China’s President Xi Jinping starts a four-day state visit to Britain on Tuesday as Prime Minister David Cameron’s government rolls out the red carpet in a bid to build closer business links. Xi will stay with Queen Elizabeth II at read more →
Tibetans vote to elect political leader, parliamentarians
Business Standard, 18 October 2015 Tibetan exiles across the world on Sunday voted to select their nominees for the post of ‘Sikyong’ or prime minister and as members of the parliament-in-exile based here. Tibetans came out in strong numbers to vote in the preliminary elections that will select candidates for read more →
Tibetans Worldwide cast their votes
The current prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, Mr Lobsang Sangay, is recontesting the top job.PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE The Strait Times, 19 October 2015 DHARAMSALA (India) • Thousands of Tibetans worldwide voted yesterday for a political leader to keep up their struggle for greater freedom in China and to head read more →
Chinese Scholar on “Pitfalls in the Next Stage of China’s Rise”
FTchinese.com (Essay written on the Chinese website essay of the (UK) Financial Times) This article is eighth in a series of commentaries on the “The Silk Road Economic Belt, the 21st-century Maritime Silk Road and the Transformation of China’s Foreign Policy” Chinese scholars who frequently travel abroad have all had read more →
As Tibetan exiles vote, candidates discuss views on China
By Ashwini Bhatia , AP October 18 DHARAMSALA, India — As Tibetans around the world voted Sunday in the first round of elections to choose a new government-in-exile, candidates were debating how to carry on their campaign to free their Himalayan homeland from Chinese rule.Hundreds of Tibetans, including monks and nuns read more →
Monitoring China’s biggest hydropower plant in Tibet, says India
ANI, Zee News, 15 October 2015 New Delhi: As China completed the biggest hydropower plant in Tibet, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Vikas Swarup on Thursday said India is monitoring the situation and may convey its concerns to Beijing. China has constructed Zangmu hydropower facility in Tibet, the largest so far to read more →
China’s Great Game: New frontier, old foes
Tom Mitchell, Financial Times, 13 October 2015 FT series: Beijing’s attempts to tame energy-rich Xinjiang may be stoking unrest from its ethnic Uighurs As one of the world’s most remote and landlocked regions, Xinjiang is not high on the itinerary for foreign dignitaries visiting China. So when George Osborne, the read more →
Britain and China to hail ‘golden’ ties during Xi visit
By Elizabeth Piper, Reuters, 13 October 2015 LONDON (Reuters) – When British finance minister George Osborne told Chinese students his daughter studied Mandarin during a visit to Beijing in 2013, it was a clear personal bid to heal strained ties. Fast forward two years and Osborne’s revelation and his dogged read more →
Tibetans displaced within region ‘amid rampant mining’
By Navin Singh KhadkaEnvironment reporter, BBC News 13 December 2013 From the section Science & Environment Image captionCampaigners and researchers say that mining operations have gathered apace in recent years A record number of Tibetans have been displaced in their own homeland amid rampant mining and river damming in vacated areas, read more →