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Tibetan PM: China Must Implement Its Laws
[The Wall Street Journal] By Vishal Arora NEW DELHI: Lobsang Sangay, the Tibetan prime minister in exile, gives off the impression that there is more that unites his people and the Chinese authorities who have ruled them for over half a century, than divides them. China might call him a separatist, read more →
China formally abolishes labour camps
[AFP] BEIJING: China’s top legislative committee on Saturday formally abolished the country’s “re-education through labour” camps and approved a loosening of its one-child policy, state media reported. The decisions were taken by the standing committee of the National People’s Congress, China’s Parliament, at the conclusion of a six-day meeting, according to read more →
China formally abolishes labour camps
[AFP] BEIJING: China’s top legislative committee on Saturday formally abolished the country’s “re-education through labour” camps and approved a loosening of its one-child policy, state media reported. The decisions were taken by the standing committee of the National People’s Congress, China’s Parliament, at the conclusion of a six-day meeting, according to read more →
China detains popular Tibetan monk and supporters: Tibetan writer
This March, 2011 photo, provided by Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser, shows Karma Tsewang, a highly regarded Tibetan monk, from Japa Monastery at an annual world peace praying meeting in Nangqian county, Qinghai province, China. (AP / Tsering Woeser) [The Associated Press] BEIJING — Chinese authorities have detained a highly regarded read more →
China detains popular Tibetan monk and supporters: Tibetan writer
This March, 2011 photo, provided by Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser, shows Karma Tsewang, a highly regarded Tibetan monk, from Japa Monastery at an annual world peace praying meeting in Nangqian county, Qinghai province, China. (AP / Tsering Woeser) [The Associated Press] BEIJING — Chinese authorities have detained a highly regarded read more →
The Disneyfication of Tibet
Strike a pose: Han Chinese tourists have overrun Tibet, taking pictures inside temples, gawking at sacred rituals, and making a mockery of a culture. [Washington Monthly] By Pearl Sydenstricker How tourism has become a tool of occupation. High on a mountain in eastern Tibet is a platform where corpses are read more →
The Disneyfication of Tibet
Strike a pose: Han Chinese tourists have overrun Tibet, taking pictures inside temples, gawking at sacred rituals, and making a mockery of a culture. [Washington Monthly] By Pearl Sydenstricker How tourism has become a tool of occupation. High on a mountain in eastern Tibet is a platform where corpses are read more →
Film maker to debut Tibet freedom film
[Bakewell Today] A Baslow-born filmmaker who documented the journey of two children escaping Tibet is to hold Derbyshire’s first screening of the film. Nick Gray’s film Escape from Tibet follows 11-year-old Tenzin and his brother Pasang, 19, as they negotiate the Himalayas in a bid to escape Chinese oppression read more →
China Says No Talking Tibet as Confucius Funds U.S. Universities
By Daniel Golden November 01, 2011 ( Bloomberg.com ) When a Beijing organization with close ties to China’s government offered Stanford University $4 million to host a Confucius Institute on Chinese language and culture and endow a professorship, it attached one caveat: The professor couldn’t discuss delicate issues like Tibet. read more →
China Says No Talking Tibet as Confucius Funds U.S. Universities
By Daniel Golden November 01, 2011 ( Bloomberg.com ) When a Beijing organization with close ties to China’s government offered Stanford University $4 million to host a Confucius Institute on Chinese language and culture and endow a professorship, it attached one caveat: The professor couldn’t discuss delicate issues like Tibet. read more →
Universities and colleges urged to end ties with Confucius Institutes
[Canadian Association of University Teachers] (December 17, 2013) The Canadian Association of University Teachers is calling on universities and colleges to sever their ties with institutes subsidized and supervised by the authoritarian government of China. At a meeting of the CAUT Council earlier this month, delegates passed a resolution calling read more →
Obama names China ambassador, economic ties in mind
[AP] Washington: The nomination of veteran Sen. Max Baucus as US ambassador to China reflects the importance to Washington of advancing the economic relationship with the Asian power despite recent strains on security issues. The Montana Democrat lacks foreign policy credentials but has a track record in pressing Beijing over read more →
Trying to settle India-China boundary issue: Shivshankar Menon
[Indo-Asian News Service] New Delhi : India has been able to build mechanisms to keep peace on its border with China and is trying hard to settle the boundary issue with the giant neighbour, National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon said Saturday. “We have built mechanisms to keep peace on the read more →
Xi Weakens Role of Beijing’s No. 2
[The Wall Street Journal] By Jeremy Page, Bob Davis and Lingling Wei Expanding His Own Remit Further, President Takes Lead on Economy, Traditionally Premier’s Turf BEIJING—British officials were finalizing details of Prime Minister David Cameron‘s visit this month to Beijing when they received a last-minute scheduling change: President Xi Jinping would host a read more →
North Korea is more accessible to foreign journalists than Tibet is
Two Tibetan women look out over the snow in Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in China. (Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images) By Max Fisher [The Washington Post] The Tibetan Autonomous Region of China has been largely closed to the outside world since it was wracked by popular protests in 2008. But the extreme read more →