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Ngaba area completely cut off from Internet access
Behind China’s Cyber Curtain: Visiting the country’s far reaches, where the government shut down the Internet BY CHRISTOPHER BEAM The New Republic December 5, 2013 On the bus ride from Chengdu, the teeming capital of Sichuan Province, to Aba County in northern Sichuan, my cell phone signal flickered in and read more →
Human Rights Watch: Bishop must pressure the Chinese on human rights
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon listens as Foreign Minister Julie Bishop speaks during a Security Council meeting/AP file photo [Human Rights Watch] If Australia wants a healthy trade relationship it needs to go beyond ‘quiet diplomacy’. When Julie Bishop visits China for the first time as Australia’s Foreign Minister, will read more →
Dalai Lama sorry he missed meeting Mandela in 2011
By Vishal Gulati Dharamsala, Dec 6 (IANS) Two years ago, Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama called off a trip to South Africa as it was “inconvenient” for that country’s government to grant him a visa and missed a chance to meet Nelson Mandela again. After cancelling his trip in October read more →
No one can feel secure in China: Top US official
(Times of India/PTI | Dec 5, 2013) WASHINGTON: A top Obama administration official has said that no one can feel secure in China as the country impose strict restrictions on the fundamental rights of its people. “The Chinese people are facing increasing restrictions, on their freedoms of expression, assembly and read more →
Hack Tibet: Welcome to Dharamsala, ground zero in China’s cyberwar
By Jonathan Kaiman [Foreign Policy] DHARAMSALA, India — Lobsang Gyatso Sither sits at the front of a Tibetan school auditorium, the bright rectangle of his PowerPoint presentation dimly illuminating the first few rows of students before him. “Never open attachments unless you are expecting them,” Sither says. The students nod. read more →
Chinese Functionary Rules Out Tibet Autonomy, Criticizes ‘Divisive Nature’ of Dalai Lama ‘Clique’
[Zurich Neue Zuercher Zeitung (Electronic Edition) in German 04 Nov 13] [Article by Beat U. Wieser on interview with Zhu Weiqun, chairman of the Subcommittee of Ethnic and Religious Affairs of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, at Bern’s Bellevue Palace Hotel] Talking with Chinese functionaries is often like banging your head read more →
China needs to change view of Tibet
By Abanti Bhattacharya [Asia Times Online] The source of the problem in India-China relations is not Tibet. The problem is rooted essentially in how China perceives Tibet. China’s flawed perception on Tibet both colors and distorts its relationship with India. For India, the intractable border dispute is the primary issue read more →
Tibet’s quiet militarization rings a loud bell across Asia
Chinese paramilitary police march during a flag raising ceremony near Potala Palace in Lhasa, capital of Tibet/AP Photo. OMER AZIZThe Globe and Mail (Canada) Thursday, Nov. 28, 2013 For the past two years, the Asia-Pacific region has been central to both the Obama administration and the Harper government’s Asia strategies. The read more →
Tibetan texts in gold, silver ink discovered
[The Times of India] By Pranava K Chaudhary PATNA: Rare Tibetan text written in gold and silver ink on black, thick handmade paper was discovered by the experts of Central University of Tibetan Studies, Sarnath, while cataloguing and classifying Tibetan texts kept here at the Bihar Research Society (BRS) a few days back. These Tibetan texts read more →
Desperation in Tibet
2011 file photo released by Boxun website shows lay Tibetans being forcibly taken away by Chinese police in a Tibetan area incorporated into China’s Sichuan Province [The New York Times] By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Published: November 29, 2013 On Nov. 11, Tsering Gyal, a 20-year-old Tibetan Buddhist monk, set himself on read more →
Tuberculosis Award Gets Caught In Politics
By Betsy McKay (Wall Street Journal) Nov. 26, 2013 There are few prizes or awards in the field of tuberculosis treatment, where doctors can spend years trying to cure patients, only to watch many die. Tsetan Sadutshang appeared to be one of the chosen few when he was told in read more →
Oldest Buddhist shrine holds clues to Buddha’s birth
By Elizabeth Landau, CNN (CNN) — There are about 500 million Buddhists worldwide, but it’s unclear exactly when in history this religion began. The Buddha’s life story spread first through oral tradition, and little physical evidence about Buddhism’s early years has been found. Now, scientists for the first time have read more →
Don’t Forget Tibet
An interview with exiled Prime Minister Lobsang Sangay. By Mary Kissel , The Wall Street Journal China’s Communist Party leadership announced a 60-point reform plan last week which moves the country toward a more open and liberalized economy. But if Beijing’s treatment of Tibet is any indication, constraints on political read more →
Chinese leaders control media, academics to shape the perception of China
(The Washington Post) By Fred Hiatt, Published: November 17, 2013 It’s well known that Chinese censors shape and limit the news and history their people can learn. What may be more surprising is how Chinese officials shape and limit what Americans learn about China. Last month, a cultural attache in read more →
Dalai Lama: China ‘softening’ on Tibet
[Source: Bangkok Post] The new Chinese leadership under President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang and the modern-day Chinese intelligentsia are more receptive to the Tibetan cause and Tibetans’ demand for high-level autonomy, exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said on Thursday. The Dalai Lama said that lately read more →