Visiting US official meets with Tibetan refugees despite Kathmandu’s caveats
May 24, 2022-The Kathmandu Post On Friday during a regular press briefing, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Sewa Lamsal said that the government was not aware of any meetings between visiting US Under Secretary Uzra Zeya and Tibetan refugee leaders in Kathmandu. The press meet was organised just hours before Zeya’s arrival in Kathmandu, read more →
UN human rights chief’s China visit confirmed, including Xinjiang
May 21, 2022-South China Morning Post The UN human rights chief will imminently visit China for “six to seven days”, with her Geneva office confirming the trip after years of negotiations. Michelle Bachelet’s trip will include a visit to Xinjiang, the far western region where the Chinese government has been accused of read more →
Tibet: No Religion Allowed in Social Media Short Videos and Webcasts
May 20, 2022Bitter Winter – by Lobsang Gurung, 19 May 2022 President Xi Jinping is obsessed with social media spiraling out of control, as censors are not quick enough when they cancel “dangerous” posts. Everywhere within the borders of the People’s Republic of China new forms of control are created and implemented. read more →
Buddha and the neighbourhood: How Modi’s Lumbini visit aims to curb Dragon’s growing shadow over Nepal
May 20, 2022Claude Arpi, May 19, 2022 – First Post India’s foreign relations are changing fast and for the better. During the last few months, Delhi witnessed a flurry of visits by dignitaries from Japan, US, UN, UK, etc, and the successful trip of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Europe where he read more →
‘One China’ principle and ‘One Country, Two Systems’ policy are ironical
May 20, 2022By ANI – 19 May 2022 Beijing [China], May 19 (ANI): China’s ‘One China’ Principle and its policy, ‘One Country, Two Systems’ are ironic to each other. The principle is a desire of China to occupy the island of Taiwan while its policy is a lullaby to promises that Hong read more →
Tibetans forced to move to make way for Chinese power plant
May 19, 2022-By Radio Free Asia Tibetans living in a monastery and nearby village have been ordered to relocate ‘regardless of the cost’. Residents of a Tibetan village in northwestern China’s Qinghai province are being forced from their homes to make way for a government-ordered hydropower station, with monks living in a read more →
How 17th century climate change may have doomed a Tibetan kingdom
May 18, 2022By Echo Xie, South China Morning Post – 15 May 2022 The collapse of a Tibetan kingdom in the 17th century may have been caused by falling temperatures, researchers have said. The Guge kingdom was founded in western Tibet at the end of the 10th century and flourished for about read more →
Reports of Chinese Panchen Lama visit to Nepal a political gimmick: Penpa
May 18, 2022Namrata Biji Ahuja for The Week. The curious case of China’s Panchen Lama trying to visit Nepal on May 16 to coincide his visit with the celebration of Buddha Purnima at the birth place of Gautam Buddha has drawn attention of not just Indian and Nepalese security agencies but some read more →
Tibetans hail PM Modi’s visit to Lumbini, warn Nepal to be wary of Chinese manoeuvres
May 18, 2022-By The New Indian Express NEW DELHI: Connected by the noble thread of Buddhism, India and Nepal are deepening cooperation in many spheres, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his first visit to the birthplace of Lord Buddha, Lumbini, on Monday. Besides India and Nepal, Tibetans too were upbeat about read more →
170 Tibetans detained after opposing land confiscation
May 17, 2022-By Free Tibet Authorities in Golog, Eastern Tibet, are enforcing laws allowing authorities to strip land from Tibetan nomads. On Tuesday 10 May, Chinese authorities in Cheudru Village in Gade County detained over 170 nomadic Tibetans and questioned them one by one at the county police station due to disagreements read more →