Tibet to build 250 bilingual kindergartens
March 8, 2016ANS | Lhasa February 26, 2016 Last Updated at 12:54 IST Tibetan authorities are set to build 250 bilingual kindergartens in rural areas by 2020, a media report said on Friday. The regional government will increase the gross enrolment ratio in pre-school education to 80 percent during the 13th Five-Year read more →
A book gives wings to voices in exile
March 7, 2016Times of India, March 5, 2016, KOCHI: Tibetans in exile have many stories to share with the world, stories of how they were uprooted from a land they inhabited for centuries, how their people were scattered across the Indian subcontinent, where they sought aslylum and how they hold on to read more →
Tibet supporters march in Taipei
March 7, 2016By Abraham Gerber / Staff reporter Taipei Times, 06 March 2016 More than 200 people from more 20 civic groups and lawmakers marched through downtown Taipei yesterday in a call to free Tibet and uphold human rights. The march was to commemorate Tibetan Uprising Day — the March 10 anniversary read more →
Canada and major powers tell China its new laws go too far
March 2, 2016The Globe and Mail, 1 March 2016 The United States, Canada, Germany, Japan and the European Union have written to China to express concern over three new or planned laws, including one on counterterrorism, in a rare joint bid to pressure Beijing into taking their objections seriously. The U.S., Canadian, read more →
The curious case of establishment 22
March 1, 2016Amitava Sanyal, Hindustan Times Updated: Nov 15, 2009 01:31 IST It’s not easy to find Radug Ngawang’s house among the maze of narrow lanes in Majnu ka Tilla, the bustling Tibetan settlement by the Yamuna in north Delhi. As we get closer, some people offer us directions. After all, the read more →
U.N.: China confused about legitimate role of lawyers
March 1, 2016By Pamela Boykoff, CNN Updated 0655 GMT (1455 HKT) February 17, 2016 Hong Kong (CNN)The United Nations human rights chief has expressed concern over China’s mounting crackdown on lawyers and government critics, describing recent arrests of activists as a “very worrying pattern.” Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the U.N. High Commissioner, read more →
Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China
March 1, 2016QUARTZ This article was updated with additional analysis of what the new rules may mean, and information about foreign investment in China. In the latest sign that China’s long-touted “opening up” is reversing into a “closing down,” a Chinese ministry has issued new rules that ban any foreign-invested company from read more →
How China’s bottled water industry is posing a threat to Tibet
March 1, 2016When identifying threats to Himalayan ecosystems, China stands out. For years, the People’s Republic has been engaged in frenzied damming of rivers and unbridled exploitation of mineral wealth on the resource-rich Tibetan Plateau. Now it is ramping up efforts to spur its bottled-water industry – the world’s largest and read more →
Apollo Chen urges Ma to give Dalai Lama another visa
March 1, 2016Taipei Times, 1 March 2016 Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Apollo Chen (陳學聖) yesterday urged President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) to issue a visa to the Dalai Lama so the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader could visit before Ma’s term ends in May. “The Dalai Lama visited Taiwan in 1997, 2001 and read more →
New Taiwan president’s dilemma – to host or not to host the Dalai Lama?
March 1, 2016Channel News Asia, 01 March 2016 Taiwan President-elect Tsai Ing-wen’s diplomatic honeymoon with China could be shortlived if she allows the Dalai Lama to visit the self-ruled democratic island that Beijing claims as its own, two senior political sources said. BEIJING/TAIPEI: Taiwan President-elect Tsai Ing-wen’s diplomatic honeymoon with China could read more →