On Campuses Far From China, Still Under Beijing’s Watchful Eye
May 5, 2017By Stephanie Saul Students at the University of California, San Diego, where an organization of Chinese students is protesting the invitation of the Dalai Lama as a commencement speaker. Credit Sandy Huffaker for The New York Times SAN DIEGO — In the competition for marquee commencement speakers, the University read more →
UMass Amherst bars student from carrying Tibetan flag in commencement ceremony
May 5, 2017By Laurie Loisel, Boston Globe, UMass Amherst student Kalsang Nangpa, with the Tibetan flag. AMHERST — Kalsang Nangpa dreamed of proudly carrying the Tibetan flag next Friday in a formal ceremony that kicks off commencement at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Nangpa, 22, whose parents are Tibetan refugees, had worn read more →
China Compiles Its Own Wikipedia, but Public Can’t Edit It
May 4, 2017By Associated press, Wikipedia’s Mandarin article on censorship in China is seen in this screenshot captured May 4, 2017. China is compiling a free online encyclopedia to rival Wikipedia, but it will likely only give Beijing’s official version of sensitive historical events, and the public won’t be able to read more →
EU wants China’s help to stop boats being used by refugees
May 4, 2017By the DNA editorial team, The European Commissioner for Migration in Beijing said the rubber boats used by people smugglers were made in China. The European Union (EU) wants China to help prevent migrants and refugees using Chinese-made inflatable boats to get into the bloc by stopping the boats reaching read more →
China’s Xi urges restraint on N Korea in call to Duterte
May 4, 2017By DNA editorial team, Chinese President Xi Jinping has discussed North Korea during a phone call with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who referred to Beijing’s important role in promoting peace on the Korean Peninsula. China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency quoted Xi as urging all parties to exercise restraint and return read more →
North Korea threatens WAR with China over ‘nuclear betrayal’
May 4, 2017By Jamie Micklethwaite, Daily Star, ‘GRAVE CONSEQUENCES’: Kim Jong-un has turned his attentions to China Tensions on the Korea peninsula have reached an all-time high with the US and Kim threatening military action against each other. Donald Trump fired his second ICBM in one month in a chilling warning read more →
In fresh crackdown, China wants online news sites to have approved staff
May 3, 2017By Sophia Yan, CNBC, The world’s second largest economy is tightening its grip on online media, with new government regulations that aim to curb information published and distributed on the internet. The rules, issued by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), become effective June 1 and apply to websites, blogs, read more →
China’s economic miracle has an ugly underbelly
May 3, 2017Anna Swanson, The Washington Post In 1978, the land east of the river that runs through downtown Shanghai was a patchwork of marshy rice paddies and drab warehouses. Less than 40 years later, the area had transformed into a sci-fi inspired landscape of skyscrapers and neon lights that Hollywood now read more →
PM says Tibet faces climate change threat
May 3, 2017Tibetan Prime Minister-in-exile Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay places a khata on Tenzin Lama (10 months), watched by Tenzin’s mother Emma Ryan, of Dunedin, David Stuart, of Dunedin and head lama of Dhargyey Buddhist Centres New Zealand venerable Lhagon Tulku, at the Dunedin Buddhist Centre yesterday. Photo: Linda Robertson. Margot Taylor, read more →
China welcomes ASEAN summit declaration on South China Sea
May 2, 2017By Reuters, DNA, China on Tuesday welcomed a softer stand taken by Southeast Asian countries on the disputed South China Sea at a weekend summit, saying it showed efforts to ease tension were working. The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) dropped references to “land reclamation and militarisation” from read more →