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Sting, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush Set for Dalai Lama Birthday Tribute
More artists for Rupert Hine’s ‘Songs for Tibet II’ to be announced in coming weeks By Jon Blistein, June 17, 2015, Rolling Stone Magazine Sting, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush and Elbow will contribute tracks to the Art of Peace Foundation‘s Songs for Tibet II, a tribute album celebrating the Dalai Lama’s read more →
A Federation for Hong Kong and China
By CHIN WAN, The New York Times Opinion Pages, 14 June 2015 HONG KONG — The debate over how Hong Kong’s leader should be elected in 2017 has flared up again. Later this week the local legislature is expected to vote on a controversial plan by the Chinese government — read more →
Dalai Lama Urges Myanmar Pro-Democracy Icon Aung San Suu Kyi To Speak Out For Rohingya Muslims
NEW DELHI (AP) – The Dalai Lama has urged Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s pro-democracy icon and a fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate, to speak out to protect her country’s persecuted Rohingya Muslims amid a human trafficking crisis, a newspaper reported Thursday. The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan read more →
Threats Against Miss World Canada: Common, Say Canadians
Chinese, Tibetan, and Uyghur Canadians are being spied on and threatened and it took a beauty queen to make it a national issue By Matthew Little, Epoch Times | June 4, 2015 Last Updated: June 9, 2015 10:28 am Canada’s newly crowned Miss World candidate Anastasia Lin has drawn attention read more →
Among 16 world leaders only Pope Francis and Dalai Lama garner good opinion from majority of Americans
eturbonews.com, 10 June 2015 NEW YORK, NY – With the continually swelling roster of US presidential hopefuls, it can sometimes seem as though there’s seldom a time when the United States isn’t in in the midst of a political campaign cycle. As such, perhaps it’s not surprising to find that read more →
Tony Abbott should meet with the Dalai Lama while he is here
Sydney Morning Herald, 10 June 2015 The Dalai Lama in Katoomba on Thursday. Photo: Kate Geraghty I am a Tibetan who has recently found a home in Australia. I was also once a political prisoner in one of China’s many jails in Tibet. As a Tibetan, I am overjoyed that read more →
Mansarovar yatra via Nepal hit as China shuts Tibet border
PTI, Kathmandu Updated: Jun 02, 2015 00:05 IST About 25,000 foreign tourists, mostly Indians, planning to visit Kailash Mansarovar in Tibet through Nepal have been forced to change their plans as China has shut down all border points in the region after the recent devastating earthquakes in Nepal. Nepal’s tourism and read more →
America’s ‘China Consensus’ Implodes
With China challenging the U.S.-led regional framework in Asia, Americans are being forced to reconsider long-standing assumptions. By Robert Manning, 21 May 2015, National Interest.Org In recent weeks a tsunami of papers, reports and articles have surfaced calling for a rethinking of U.S. policy toward China. They veer in all read more →
Will China Close Its Doors?
By Ira Belkin and Jerome Cohen, The New York Times, 1 June 2015 The slogan for the 2008 Beijing Olympics was “Beijing Welcomes You.” Now, seven years later, a draft law targeting foreign institutions — including universities, museums, athletic and cultural groups, professional associations and all nonprofit social organizations established read more →
The Great American Rethink on China
Washington may be junking a strategy of integration that has ruled for 45 years By David Feith, The Wall Street Journal, 28 May 2015 Beijing’s bid to dominate one of the world’s most important waterways, the South China Sea, is again the focus as U.S. and Asian leaders gather here read more →
China ranked amongst lowest in 2015 World Press Freedom Index
Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:00 Yeshe Choesang, Tibet Post International China is ranking #176 out in 180 countries in the 2015 World Press Freedom Index with a score of 73.55. Photo: RSF Paris, France: – China ranked 176th out of 180 countries in the 2015 World Press Freedom Index, released read more →
‘China violently crushing protests by Tibetan nomads’
Big News Network, Saturday 30 May 2015 China has been “violently crushing” all peaceful protests by Tibetan nomads demanding return of their pastoral land and their nomadic way of life in the Tibetan plateau, a Tibetan rights activist said here on Saturday. Tsering Tsomo, a Tibetan nomad and head of read more →
Tibetan PM warns that India and China can’t sidestep his country if they aim for peaceful ties
Dr Lobsang Sangay talks about Beijing’s repression of Tibet and Modi’s recent visit to China. Ajaz Ashraf, The Scroll, 23 May 2015 Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile Dr Lobsang Sangay was educated at Delhi University and Harvard Law School. In an email interview, he speaks of how discussions about read more →
When the Dalai Lama turns 80
By Major General (retd.) Vinod Saighal, The Statesman, 26 May 2015 According to the Tibetan calendar he will do so on June 21, while the Gregorian or the universal calendar that is used worldwide puts the date as July 6. Much rests on his longevity for the Tibetans in Tibet read more →
Déjà vu for Tibet’s refugees
200 families have been camping in a nearby football field. By Tsering Dolkar Gurung, Nepali Times, Living inside tented camps has brought back memories of the past for Tibetans Namgyal Dolma was in her forties when she escaped her village in eastern Tibet along with her three children and an read more →