Harmony existing in India for over 1,000 years: Dalai Lama
January 5, 2016Business Standard, IANS, 4 January 2016 The traditional and religious harmony in India has been existing for over 1,000 years, the 14th Dalai Lama said here on Monday during the belated celebration of his 80th birthday. Various dignitaries, including senior politicians, activists, artists and religious personalities, gathered here to pay read more →
Manmohan wants Dalai Lama’s blessings for harmony in India
January 5, 2016Economic Times, 4 January 2016 NEW DELHI: Describing Dalai Lama as “modern incarnation of Lord Buddha”, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today sought the Tibetan spiritual leader’s blessings for India to move on the path of peace and harmony. Speaking at a function here to commemorate the 80th birth anniversary read more →
China Passes Antiterrorism Law That Critics Fear May Overreach
January 4, 2016The New York Times By CHRIS BUCKLEYDEC. 27, 2015 BEIJING — China’s legislature approved an antiterrorism law on Sunday after months of international controversy, including criticism from human rights groups, business lobbies and President Obama. Critics had said that the draft version of the law used a recklessly broad definition read more →
Here’s why the Chinese may never be able to fully populate Tibet
January 2, 2016by Susanna Pilny, redorbit.com, 31 December 2015 Depending on who you ask, anywhere from a few hundred thousand to upwards of seven million Han (ethnically Chinese) have immigrated into Tibet Autonomous Region since it was invaded by China in 1950—but according to an international team of researchers, these Han are read more →
China, the U.S. and the Coming Taiwan Transition
December 31, 2015By Douglas Paal, The Diplomat, 29 December 2015 Chinese President Xi Jinping is a man in a hurry, presiding over a system that normally resists rapid change. The latest example is a rushed and massive reorganization and slimming of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), announced on September 3 and expected to be read more →
Holding the fate of families in its hands, China controls refugees abroad
December 31, 2015By Paul Mooney and David Lague, Reuters, 30 December 2015 MONTREAL/MUNICH – Erkin Kurban, an ethnic Uighur from China’s frontier region of Xinjiang, left his homeland for Canada back in 1999. When he returned to Xinjiang for a visit in April 2013, he had not seen his family for more than read more →
A Chinese Company in India, Stumbling Over a Culture
December 31, 2015SHINDE, India — When a Chinese truck company wanted to open a factory in India, its president looked at sites that had a mountain in back and a river in front — especially auspicious locations in the traditional practice of feng shui. The company, Beiqi Foton Motor, found a seemingly read more →
Microsoft failed to warn victims of Chinese email hack – former employees
December 31, 2015Joseph Menn, Reuters, 30 December 2015 SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft Corp experts concluded several years ago that Chinese authorities had hacked into more than a thousand Hotmail email accounts, targeting international leaders of China’s Tibetan and Uighur minorities in particular – but it decided not to tell the victims, allowing read more →
China passes controversial counter-terrorism law
December 30, 2015An Weixing, the head of the Public Security Ministry’s counter-terrorism division, speaks at a news conference after China’s parliament passed a controversial new anti-terrorism law in Beijing, December 27, 2015. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon China passed a controversial new anti-terrorism law on Sunday that requires technology firms to help decrypt information, but read more →
China’s Database of ‘Living Buddhas’ Is the Latest Attempt to Control Tibetan Affairs
December 29, 2015Cave monastery, Lhasa, Tibet By Hannah Beech, Time Magazine, 11 December 2015 Chinese bureaucracy excels at record-keeping, and the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s official atheism isn’t preventing the latest effort in meticulous documentation. Earlier this month, the Chinese government announced that Beijing would be compiling a database of the nearly read more →