Tibet’s Climate Is Getting Wetter, British and Chinese Scientists Report
February 13, 2014Lhasa, Tibet/Photograph by Imaginechina via AP Images [Businessweek] By Christina Larson The climate of Tibet has been anomalous over the past fifty years, although perhaps not in an expected way: The high plateaus of northeastern Tibet have seen some of their wettest years in several millennia over the past five read more →
Allow greater interaction between Indian, Chinese people: VP
February 12, 2014[PTI] NEW DELHI: India and China must throw their doors wide open for people-to-people contacts as a “meeting of minds” would help build solid and friendly bilateral ties, Vice President Hamid Ansari has said. “We are neighbours. We are strategic partners. We are ancient civilisations. Historically, there was much that bound us read more →
Boosting science, math, technology, and ethics in Tibetan communities
February 12, 2014Project aims to create science learning centers in India, while also fostering solar power and clean water. David L. Chandler, MIT News Office A teacher explains sustainable and organic farming to students of different Tibetan schools in Dehradun.PHOTO COURTESY OF DALAI LAMA CENTER To many Westerners, science, monks, read more →
China pressuring Spain on human rights case: Tibetan monk
February 12, 2014Tibetan monk Thubten Wangchen (C) takes part in a protest calling for the release of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama, in front of China’s consulate in Barcelona, May 17, 2011.CREDIT:REUTERS/GUSTAU NACARINO [AFP] Madrid — A Tibetan monk who pushed a human rights case against former Chinese leaders through read more →
China and Taiwan in first government talks
February 11, 2014[BBC] China and Taiwan have begun the highest-level talks since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949. Wang Yu-chi and Zhang Zhijun, the top cross-strait officials from each side, are both attending the four-day talks in Nanjing. No official agenda has been released for the talks, which are read more →
Children of Tibetan refugees can now vote
February 11, 2014[The Indian Express] By Shalini Nair MUMBAI: The Election Commission (EC) has ordered all states to include children of Tibetan refugees in the electoral list. This is for the first time in 55 years that voting rights will be conferred on Tibetans in exile in the country. According to the read more →
Spain orders arrest of former Chinese officials over Tibet
February 10, 2014China’s former President Jiang Zemin looks up while President Hu Jintao gives his speech during the opening ceremony of 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, November 8, 2012. (Reuters) – Spanish High Court Judge Ismael Moreno on Monday read more →
China and Japan caught in the delicate manoeuvres of a Russian embrace
February 10, 2014Keith Zhai, South China Morning Post Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes his meetings with the leaders of China and Japan at the Sochi Winter Olympics will push his country further into Asia, analysts say. President Xi Jinping met Putin on Thursday, while Japan’s Shinzo Abe met him yesterday. Abe said read more →
Declaration by High Representative Catherine Ashton on human rights defenders and their relatives in China
February 7, 2014Declaration by High Representative Catherine Ashton on behalf of the European Union regarding the treatment of human rights defenders and their relatives in China The EU has welcomed recent decisions by the Chinese authorities to deepen the reform of the justice system and to uphold the Constitution and laws to read more →
Kissinger Says Asia Is Like 19th-Century Europe on Use of Force
February 4, 2014(www.bloomberg.com) Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger raised the specter of war in Asia as tension between China and Japan played out at a global security conference. “Asia is more in a position of 19th-century Europe, where military conflict is not ruled out,” Kissinger, 90, said on a panel read more →