China detains popular Tibetan monk and supporters: Tibetan writer
December 28, 2013This March, 2011 photo, provided by Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser, shows Karma Tsewang, a highly regarded Tibetan monk, from Japa Monastery at an annual world peace praying meeting in Nangqian county, Qinghai province, China. (AP / Tsering Woeser) [The Associated Press] BEIJING — Chinese authorities have detained a highly regarded read more →
China detains popular Tibetan monk and supporters: Tibetan writer
December 28, 2013This March, 2011 photo, provided by Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser, shows Karma Tsewang, a highly regarded Tibetan monk, from Japa Monastery at an annual world peace praying meeting in Nangqian county, Qinghai province, China. (AP / Tsering Woeser) [The Associated Press] BEIJING — Chinese authorities have detained a highly regarded read more →
The Disneyfication of Tibet
December 28, 2013Strike a pose: Han Chinese tourists have overrun Tibet, taking pictures inside temples, gawking at sacred rituals, and making a mockery of a culture. [Washington Monthly] By Pearl Sydenstricker How tourism has become a tool of occupation. High on a mountain in eastern Tibet is a platform where corpses are read more →
The Disneyfication of Tibet
December 28, 2013Strike a pose: Han Chinese tourists have overrun Tibet, taking pictures inside temples, gawking at sacred rituals, and making a mockery of a culture. [Washington Monthly] By Pearl Sydenstricker How tourism has become a tool of occupation. High on a mountain in eastern Tibet is a platform where corpses are read more →
Film maker to debut Tibet freedom film
December 27, 2013[Bakewell Today] A Baslow-born filmmaker who documented the journey of two children escaping Tibet is to hold Derbyshire’s first screening of the film. Nick Gray’s film Escape from Tibet follows 11-year-old Tenzin and his brother Pasang, 19, as they negotiate the Himalayas in a bid to escape Chinese oppression read more →
China Says No Talking Tibet as Confucius Funds U.S. Universities
December 25, 2013By Daniel Golden November 01, 2011 ( Bloomberg.com ) When a Beijing organization with close ties to China’s government offered Stanford University $4 million to host a Confucius Institute on Chinese language and culture and endow a professorship, it attached one caveat: The professor couldn’t discuss delicate issues like Tibet. read more →
China Says No Talking Tibet as Confucius Funds U.S. Universities
December 25, 2013By Daniel Golden November 01, 2011 ( Bloomberg.com ) When a Beijing organization with close ties to China’s government offered Stanford University $4 million to host a Confucius Institute on Chinese language and culture and endow a professorship, it attached one caveat: The professor couldn’t discuss delicate issues like Tibet. read more →
Universities and colleges urged to end ties with Confucius Institutes
December 25, 2013[Canadian Association of University Teachers] (December 17, 2013) The Canadian Association of University Teachers is calling on universities and colleges to sever their ties with institutes subsidized and supervised by the authoritarian government of China. At a meeting of the CAUT Council earlier this month, delegates passed a resolution calling read more →
Obama names China ambassador, economic ties in mind
December 21, 2013[AP] Washington: The nomination of veteran Sen. Max Baucus as US ambassador to China reflects the importance to Washington of advancing the economic relationship with the Asian power despite recent strains on security issues. The Montana Democrat lacks foreign policy credentials but has a track record in pressing Beijing over read more →
Trying to settle India-China boundary issue: Shivshankar Menon
December 21, 2013[Indo-Asian News Service] New Delhi : India has been able to build mechanisms to keep peace on its border with China and is trying hard to settle the boundary issue with the giant neighbour, National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon said Saturday. “We have built mechanisms to keep peace on the read more →