Top China defector passes state secrets to US
February 5, 2016By Jamil Anderlini and Tom Mitchell, FT, US intelligence agencies interrogating the brother of a disgraced Communist official believe he is the most valuable Chinese defector to flee to America, according to two people familiar with some of the intelligence he has provided. The defector, Ling Wancheng, is the brother read more →
No escape? China’s crackdown on dissent goes global
February 5, 2016By Ivan Watson, Pamela Boykoff, Kocha Olarn and Judy Kwon, CNN, 5 February 2016 Bangkok (CNN) – Yu Yanhua hasn’t been back to her apartment in days. She’s been too frightened, she says, after at least four dissidents of Chinese origin were arrested or simply disappeared from Thailand in the read more →
China’s Overseas Abductions
February 5, 2016The Wall Street Journal, 4 February 2016 Chinese dissident journalist Li Xin went missing on Jan. 11 in Thailand. On Wednesday he phoned his wife from China, telling her, “I came back to China willingly to face investigation.” Mr. Li’s wife, He Fangmei, wasn’t fooled. “I know it was all read more →
Dear India, Thank You for Letting Me Stay, Writes Tibetan Refugee
February 2, 2016From: http://www.thequint.com/ LETTER TO INDIA Brought to you by Motorola Dear India, Thank You for Letting Me Stay, Writes Tibetan Refugee Tenzin Tsomo is a Tibetan refugee, who lives in a small flat near Yamuna River. She finally opens up on how she feels about India after two decades of read more →
U.S. calls on China to clarify status of booksellers
February 2, 2016By David Brunnstrom, Reuters, 1 February 2016 WASHINGTON – The United States called on China on Monday to clarify the status of five missing Hong Kong booksellers, saying the case raised serious questions about China’s commitment to Hong Kong’s autonomy under the one country, two systems framework. The booksellers, including read more →
China sentences 2 men to death in slaying of Tibetan monk
February 1, 2016By GERRY SHIH, 31 January 2016 5:31 AM EST BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese court sentenced two men to death in the 2013 killing of Akong Rinpoche, a well-known religious figure who founded the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the West and built an international network of spiritual retreats. Thubten Kunsal, a Tibetan man read more →
Why the Dalai Lama may be India’s noblest resident
January 31, 2016Ramachandra Guha, Hindustan Times, 31 January 2016 Unlike the airport in my home town, Bengaluru, or the airports in two cities I visit often, Mumbai and Delhi, the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose airport in Kolkata is run not by a private firm but by the Airports Authority of India. This read more →
Ending Powerlessness, Changing the World
January 29, 2016By Chade-Meng Tan, Co-Chair of One Billion Acts of Peace Eight young Tibetan students living in India set out to do something seemingly impossible: provide an entire slum community with access to clean water. These students, led by 18-year-old Tenzin Loden, were inspired by a budding campaign called One Billion read more →
Eye on China: India to build satellite station in Vietnam
January 25, 2016Times of India, 25 January 2016 NEW DELHI/HONG KONG: India will set up a satellite tracking and imaging centre in southern Vietnam that will give Hanoi access to pictures from Indian earth observation satellites that cover the region, including China and the South China Sea, Indian officials said. India will read more →
China has no business in reincarnation system: Tibetan PM-in-exile
January 25, 2016Hindustan Times, 23 January 2016 Tibetan Prime Minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay has condemned the Chinese government’s spiritual cataloguing system, while terming it an attempt to control the reincarnation system of monks in Tibetan Buddhism. Highlighting China’s track record of destroying 98 percent of monasteries and nunneries in Tibet as well as read more →