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Tibetan NGO on a roll with ‘Clean Water Project’
Phayul[Monday, August 24, 2015 18:54] By Tenzin Dharpo DHARAMSHALA, August 24: Around 11000 residents of McLeod Ganj have attributed a renewed importance to ‘drinking water’ as a priced commodity owing to the excess urbanization of the area without balancing counter measures and the contamination of glacial water sources putting out read more →
Himalayan Tibet Museum comes into being in Hills
by Amitava Banerjee, Hindustan Times, Kolkata on 15 July 2015 DARJEELING: Ask anyone in Darjeeling Sarat Chandra Das was and it would definitely invite a blank stare. The first Tibetan to English dictionary with Sanskrit equivalents was written by Sarat Chandra Das. The dictionary is still being used. Das, an read more →
Himalayan Tibet Museum : The new cultural attraction in Darjeeling
Good News Sikkim, August 2015 A new cultural attraction for both locals and tourists in Darjeeling has come up-The Himalayan Tibet Museum. Set up by the efforts of Manjushree Centre of Tibetan Culture (MCTC) at Gandhi Road in Darjeeling, the museum is blessed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama who read more →
Chinese hackers spying on Tibetan groups in India for years, experts say
Cybersecurity firm says hackers on the mainland have targeted Tibetan exile groups for at least four years, claim long denied by Beijing By James Griffiths, South China Morning Post, 22 August 2015 Chinese hackers are believed to have targeted Tibetan exile groups in India that Beijing views as a threat read more →
Immolations are just one sign of tension over Communist rule
Monks gather for debates in the courtyard at Kirti Monastery in Aba, in Sichuan province. Carolyn Cole/ Los Angeles Times The Los Angeles Times, 22 August 2015 By the time Dongtuk arrived, the body was gone. A pack of matches lay on the ground, the only sign of the horror read more →
RESTORE TIBETAN PLATEAU’S GUARDIANSHIP TO TIBETANS, SAYS SIKYONG
tibetpolicy.net Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay, the political leader of the Tibetan people, today joined several scholars at the prestigious Delhi University in the heart of the Indian capital to discuss the health of the Tibetan Plateau and its impact on the rest of Asia. Sikyong Dr Sangay delivered the keynote read more →
Scaling China’s Great Firewall
by Murong Xuecu, New York Times, 17 August 2015 In the fall of 2011, a friend and I got on to discussing Tibet. “Do you know,” he said, “that Tibetans are setting fire to themselves?” I had spent from 2005 to 2008 in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, but I had never read more →
Scaling China’s Great Firewall
AUGUST 17, 2015 In the fall of 2011, a friend and I got on to discussing Tibet. “Do you know,” he said, “that Tibetans are setting fire to themselves?” I had spent from 2005 to 2008 in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, but I had never heard of acts of self-immolation. read more →
Analysis: Why Xi Jinping set up a Central Leading Group on the United Front Work?
By Tenzin Tseten*, Tibetpolicy.net On July 30, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) decided to set up a leading group on the United Front Work. Since his ascension to power, Xi Jinping has formed three important leading groups including this latest one. The two read more →
Human rights, Tibet to be priority during Xi-Obama Sep’15 summit?
AUGUST 16, 2015 (TibetanReview.net, Aug15, 2015) – The United States pressed China hard on human rights issues, including religious freedom and deteriorating situation in Tibet, during their 19th bilateral human rights dialogue held in Washington, DC, on Aug 13. China tried to hit back by referring to increasing racial attacks read more →
China to scrutinise mails to be sent to Tibet ahead of parade
Press Trust of India, 13 August 2015 Beijing: China will strictly scrutinise all mails and parcels to be sent to Tibet as part of the stringent scrutiny measures ahead of the 70th anniversary of its victory in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression on September 3. China’s read more →
The Great Tibetan Stand-off between China, Dalai Lama
By Jayadeva Ranade / Published: 14th July 2015 05:27 AM / Last Updated: 14th July 2015 05:28 AM The year 2015 is a significant one for Tibet and China. The Dalai Lama celebrated his 80th birthday on July 6, 2015. It also marks the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the Tibet read more →
China warns Taiwan against return to ‘evil ways’ of independence
People First Party (PFP) Chairperson James Soong waves to supporters during a news conference in Taipei, Taiwan, August 6, 2015. REUTERS/PICHI CHUANG China’s top policy maker on Taiwan warned the self-ruled island on Thursday it would soon have to choose between continuing the peaceful development of ties, or returning to read more →
TIBET’S ROAD AHEAD TIBETANS LOSE A HAVEN IN NEPAL UNDER CHINESE PRESSURE
By BARBARA DEMICK Tsomo escaped Tibet last year on a zipline that carried her into Nepal over a chasm of jagged rocks and a river gushing white as frothing milk. The 23-year-old student remembers she was numb with terror as the smugglers fastened a thick rope through her legs read more →
China will ‘explode’ if communist regime remains, says Ai Weiwei
Beijing leadership in denial about scale of problems the country is facing, warns artist Chinese artist Ai Weiwei his son Ai Lao at Munich airport: the activist has said that his homeland must become a democratic society. Photograph: Matthias Schrader/AP Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has warned that his read more →