China state visit: Is Tibet silence the price for UK-China ties?
October 20, 201519 October 2015 Last updated at 23:58 BST Three years ago, China froze all high-level contact with the UK when Prime Minister David Cameron met the Dalai Lama, the Spiritual leader of Tibet. But relations between the two countries thawed significantly after Mr Cameron said he had no plans to read more →
Dalai Lama says climate change destroying Tibet’s “roof of the world”
October 20, 2015By Andrew MacAskill, Reuters, 20 October 2015 Oct 20 Tibet’s exiled leaders, including the Dalai Lama, said on Tuesday two-thirds of the glaciers in their mountain homeland may disappear by 2050 because of climate change and demanded a stake in international climate talks later this year. The Tibetan plateau, which read more →
Dalai Lama says strong action on climate change is a human responsibility
October 20, 2015Associated Press, 20 October Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader says humans causeed global warming so must now take action to protect fragile environments including Himalayan glaciers The Dalai Lama on Tuesday urged strong global action to limit global warming and to protect fragile environments, including the Himalayan glaciers and Tibetan plateau. read more →
Dalai Lama calls action on climate a ‘human responsibility’
October 20, 2015By Katy Daigle | AP October 20 NEW DELHI — The Dalai Lama on Tuesday urged strong global action to limit global warming and to protect fragile environments, including the Himalayan glaciers and Tibetan plateau. Calling climate change a “problem which human beings created,” the 80-year-old Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader said all read more →
Red Carpets, Protests to Greet China’s Xi in Britain
October 20, 2015Katherine Haddon, AFP, Yahoo News UK, 20 October, 2015 LONDON: China’s President Xi Jinping starts a four-day state visit to Britain on Tuesday as Prime Minister David Cameron’s government rolls out the red carpet in a bid to build closer business links. Xi will stay with Queen Elizabeth II at read more →
Tibetans vote to elect political leader, parliamentarians
October 20, 2015Business Standard, 18 October 2015 Tibetan exiles across the world on Sunday voted to select their nominees for the post of ‘Sikyong’ or prime minister and as members of the parliament-in-exile based here. Tibetans came out in strong numbers to vote in the preliminary elections that will select candidates for read more →
Tibetans Worldwide cast their votes
October 20, 2015The current prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, Mr Lobsang Sangay, is recontesting the top job.PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE The Strait Times, 19 October 2015 DHARAMSALA (India) • Thousands of Tibetans worldwide voted yesterday for a political leader to keep up their struggle for greater freedom in China and to head read more →
Chinese Scholar on “Pitfalls in the Next Stage of China’s Rise”
October 19, 2015FTchinese.com (Essay written on the Chinese website essay of the (UK) Financial Times) This article is eighth in a series of commentaries on the “The Silk Road Economic Belt, the 21st-century Maritime Silk Road and the Transformation of China’s Foreign Policy” Chinese scholars who frequently travel abroad have all had read more →
As Tibetan exiles vote, candidates discuss views on China
October 19, 2015By Ashwini Bhatia , AP October 18 DHARAMSALA, India — As Tibetans around the world voted Sunday in the first round of elections to choose a new government-in-exile, candidates were debating how to carry on their campaign to free their Himalayan homeland from Chinese rule.Hundreds of Tibetans, including monks and nuns read more →
Monitoring China’s biggest hydropower plant in Tibet, says India
October 16, 2015ANI, Zee News, 15 October 2015 New Delhi: As China completed the biggest hydropower plant in Tibet, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Vikas Swarup on Thursday said India is monitoring the situation and may convey its concerns to Beijing. China has constructed Zangmu hydropower facility in Tibet, the largest so far to read more →