Tibetan Prime Minister (in Exile) to Visit Wellington Next Week
April 29, 2017Wellington .Scoop – 26 April 2017 Tibetan Prime Minister Dr. Lobsang Sangay will visit Wellington for the first time next week. Dr. Sangay is the first democratically elected political leader after the Dalai Lama stepped down from his political role in 2011. With a doctorate from Harvard Law School, he read more →
Tillerson: China threatened to sanction North Korea over another nuclear test
April 28, 2017By Eli Watkins, CNN Washington (CNN)Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Thursday that China threatened the North Korean government with sanctions if it undertook another nuclear weapons test. Tillerson made his comments on Fox News ahead of a visit to the United Nations and amid rising tensions over the North read more →
‘Renaming six places in Arunachal Pradesh by China doesn’t make sense … Don’t know why China was so scared’
April 28, 2017Times of India, 28 April 2017 Lobsang Sangay is a legal scholar and Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile. He spoke to Rohit E David on Dalai Lama’s recent visit to Arunachal Pradesh, China’s belligerent response and its impact on the relationship between Delhi and Beijing: What is your response to China renaming read more →
China is crushing South Korea’s tourism industry
April 27, 2017by Alec Macfarlane, CNN money, Pro tip for countries looking to keep their tourism numbers up: Don’t annoy China. That’s the lesson South Korea is learning the hard way. The country suffered a 40% plunge in Chinese visitors last month, according to the Korea Tourism Organization. Chinese tour groups have read more →
Malaysians’ response to big China presence shows concerns
April 27, 2017By Wan Saiful Wan Jan For The Straits Times, Many colleagues were surprised when a Hong Kong-based newspaper last month claimed that mainland Chinese are migrating to Malaysia “by the thousands”. The report stated that last year alone, more than 1,000 had utilised the Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) read more →
China ranked 5th from the bottom again on this year’s World Press Freedom Index
April 26, 201726 April 2017, Shanghaiist For yet another year, China has managed to hold onto its traditional spot at 176 on the annual World Press Freedom Index, besting only the states of Syria, Turkmenistan, Eritrea and North Korea. Released each year by the international organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the index read more →
Ted 2017: The woman who wants China to eat insects
April 26, 2017BBC China A Chinese entrepreneur is promoting edible insects and online farmers’ markets in a campaign to improve eating habits in the country. Matilda Ho spoke at the Ted (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference about the need to spread the message about healthy eating. She is backing a range of read more →
China convicts US woman Sandy Phan-Gillis for spying
April 26, 2017BBC China A Chinese court has convicted American businesswoman Sandy Phan-Gillis for spying and ordered her deportation. Phan-Gillis was sentenced to three and a half years in prison by a court in Nanning, but it is unclear if she will have to serve the time. She was arrested in March read more →
Video: Politicians wish missing Tibetan spiritual leader Panchen Lama a happy 28th birthday
April 26, 201726 April 2017, Hong Kong Free Press The Exiled Tibetan government on Tuesday released a video of politicians around the world wishing Tibet’s Panchen Lama – who has been missing since he was a boy – a happy 28th birthday. The Panchen Lama is the second highest Tibetan spiritual leader, read more →
China Ups ‘Stability Maintenance’ Alert As PLA Veterans Head to Beijing
April 26, 2017By RFA Authorities in China have issued an emergency security alert as thousands of military veterans were expected to converge on Beijing ahead of a key conference in May in a bid to highlight grievances like unpaid pensions, campaigners told RFA on Tuesday. People’s Liberation Army (PLA) veterans have read more →