China’s Antigraft Enforcers Take On a New Role: Policing Loyalty
October 23, 2016Chris Buckley, The New York Times BEIJING — The investigators descend on government agencies and corporate boardrooms. They interrogate powerful officials and frequently rebuke them for lacking zeal. Most of all, they demand unflinching loyalty to President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party. They are the inspectors from the party’s read more →
Why Asian Nations Should Be Cautious About China ?
October 23, 2016N.S.Venkataraman, Sri Lankan Guardian (October 22, 2016, Chennai, Sri Lanka Guardian) There is no doubt that China is rapidly emerging as a super power with it’s economy now being second largest in the world . With it’s size, land area and huge natural wealth and aided by rapid economic, industrial read more →
The two most joyful people on the planet have written a book and it’s called “The Book of Joy”
October 21, 2016Quartz, 20 October 2016 We should all be grateful that two of the happiest people in the world found each other and formed a beautiful friendship. The Dalai Lama and retired South African archbishop and freedom fighter Desmond Tutu have written a book together to share some of that joy. read more →
The world protests over demolitions and evictions at Larung Gar Tibetan Buddhist community
October 21, 2016International Business Times By James Tennent October 20, 2016 11:34 BST Activists claim that Chinese authorities are attempting to slash the population of the spiritual epicentre. Protests took place, on 19 October, in cities around the world to campaign against alleged demolitions and forced evictions carried out by Chinese authorities read more →
Milan Honors Dalai Lama as Citizen Over China’s Objections
October 21, 2016ABC News, 20 October 2016 Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama greets his supporters while visiting Prague, Czech Republic, Monday, Oct. 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek) The Milan city council bestowed honorary citizenship on the Dalai Lama on Thursday over the objections of Chinese Embassy, which said the gesture read more →
Milan makes visiting Dalai Lama honorary citizen, angering China
October 21, 2016Reuters, 20 October 2016 Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama poses after receiving honorary citizenship of the city of Milan at the Arcimboldi theater in Milan, Italy October 20, 2016. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini Milan welcomed Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, on Thursday and gave him an honorary citizenship read more →
Universities raise Tibetan flag during Dalai Lama’s visit
October 20, 2016Prague Daily, 20 October 2016 Prague, Oct 19 (CTK) – Several Czech universities hung out Tibetan flags at noon yesterday in reaction to an official statement on good Czech-Chinese relations that the country’s four supreme constitutional officials issued after some politicians met the Dalai Lama on Tuesday. The hoisting of read more →
Kashmir is Indian. Is Tibet really Chinese?
October 20, 2016The Pioneer, 20 October 2016 Comrades in the Middle Kingdom must learn from their history and be prepared. New Delhi can be ‘neutral’ but also side with the Tibetans, especially if Beijing continues to side with Pakistan’s terrorist activities In April 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping paid his first state read more →
Living in a slum in the name of enlightenment
October 20, 2016Sydney Morning Herald, 17 October 2016 Sertar, Garze: In the northern summer of 2001, thousands of Chinese security personnel, backed by an army of labourers armed with sledgehammers, massed at the entry of the Larung Gar Tibetan Buddhist Institute. In this almost impossibly remote place, sitting high on the Tibetan read more →
Demolition of Larung Gar Monastery by China ‘inhuman’, ‘unconstitutional’: Former Tibetan PM-in-exile
October 20, 2016ANI, Business Standard Former Tibetan prime minister-in-exile Samdhong Rinpoche has termed demolition of Larung Gar Monastery and eviction of thousands of monks and nuns in his homeland as inhuman and unconstitutional. Rinpoche said it was not for the first time that Chinese authorities had completely demolished Larung Gar, as a read more →