Dalai Lama Urges Myanmar Pro-Democracy Icon Aung San Suu Kyi To Speak Out For Rohingya Muslims
June 15, 2015NEW DELHI (AP) – The Dalai Lama has urged Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s pro-democracy icon and a fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate, to speak out to protect her country’s persecuted Rohingya Muslims amid a human trafficking crisis, a newspaper reported Thursday. The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan read more →
Threats Against Miss World Canada: Common, Say Canadians
June 10, 2015Chinese, Tibetan, and Uyghur Canadians are being spied on and threatened and it took a beauty queen to make it a national issue By Matthew Little, Epoch Times | June 4, 2015 Last Updated: June 9, 2015 10:28 am Canada’s newly crowned Miss World candidate Anastasia Lin has drawn attention read more →
Among 16 world leaders only Pope Francis and Dalai Lama garner good opinion from majority of Americans
June 10, 2015eturbonews.com, 10 June 2015 NEW YORK, NY – With the continually swelling roster of US presidential hopefuls, it can sometimes seem as though there’s seldom a time when the United States isn’t in in the midst of a political campaign cycle. As such, perhaps it’s not surprising to find that read more →
Tony Abbott should meet with the Dalai Lama while he is here
June 10, 2015Sydney Morning Herald, 10 June 2015 The Dalai Lama in Katoomba on Thursday. Photo: Kate Geraghty I am a Tibetan who has recently found a home in Australia. I was also once a political prisoner in one of China’s many jails in Tibet. As a Tibetan, I am overjoyed that read more →
Mansarovar yatra via Nepal hit as China shuts Tibet border
June 4, 2015PTI, Kathmandu Updated: Jun 02, 2015 00:05 IST About 25,000 foreign tourists, mostly Indians, planning to visit Kailash Mansarovar in Tibet through Nepal have been forced to change their plans as China has shut down all border points in the region after the recent devastating earthquakes in Nepal. Nepal’s tourism and read more →
America’s ‘China Consensus’ Implodes
June 4, 2015With China challenging the U.S.-led regional framework in Asia, Americans are being forced to reconsider long-standing assumptions. By Robert Manning, 21 May 2015, National Interest.Org In recent weeks a tsunami of papers, reports and articles have surfaced calling for a rethinking of U.S. policy toward China. They veer in all read more →
Will China Close Its Doors?
June 4, 2015By Ira Belkin and Jerome Cohen, The New York Times, 1 June 2015 The slogan for the 2008 Beijing Olympics was “Beijing Welcomes You.” Now, seven years later, a draft law targeting foreign institutions — including universities, museums, athletic and cultural groups, professional associations and all nonprofit social organizations established read more →
The Great American Rethink on China
June 2, 2015Washington may be junking a strategy of integration that has ruled for 45 years By David Feith, The Wall Street Journal, 28 May 2015 Beijing’s bid to dominate one of the world’s most important waterways, the South China Sea, is again the focus as U.S. and Asian leaders gather here read more →
China ranked amongst lowest in 2015 World Press Freedom Index
June 1, 2015Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:00 Yeshe Choesang, Tibet Post International China is ranking #176 out in 180 countries in the 2015 World Press Freedom Index with a score of 73.55. Photo: RSF Paris, France: – China ranked 176th out of 180 countries in the 2015 World Press Freedom Index, released read more →
‘China violently crushing protests by Tibetan nomads’
June 1, 2015Big News Network, Saturday 30 May 2015 China has been “violently crushing” all peaceful protests by Tibetan nomads demanding return of their pastoral land and their nomadic way of life in the Tibetan plateau, a Tibetan rights activist said here on Saturday. Tsering Tsomo, a Tibetan nomad and head of read more →