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China’s Long, Hot Summer of Censorship
By Sarah Cook, Read the original article here. June has been a terrible month for internet freedom in China. July may be even worse. Every year in June, China’s censors go into overdrive to prevent citizens from discussing, commemorating, or … Continued The post China’s Long, Hot Summer of Censorship read more →
Beijing says it won’t allow Hong Kong to be brought up at G20
By Ben Westcott and Yong Xiong, Hong Kong (CNN) Read the original article here. A top Chinese Foreign Ministry official said Beijing would “not allow” the Hong Kong protests to be brought up at the G20 meeting in Osaka beginning on Thursday. Assistant Minister of Foreign … Continued The post Beijing says it won’t allow Hong read more →
Tibet’s climate, land use policy not China’s internal affair: Sangay
Statesman News Service, Read the original article here. Addressing a panel discussion on Climate Change and Tibet at University College London’s Darwin Lecture Theatre, he implored upon the strategic importance of the Tibetan plateau as the largest repository of fresh … Continued The post Tibet’s climate, land use policy not read more →
Google Brushes Off a Shareholder Revolt Over Its Plans in China
By Leo Sun, Read the original article here. Last year, Alphabet ‘s (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google faced a fierce backlash after details leaked about its censored search engine for China, codenamed Dragonfly. In December, The Intercept claimed that Google “effectively ended” the … Continued The post Google Brushes Off a Shareholder Revolt read more →
Google defeats shareholders on ‘Dragonfly’ censored search in China
By Zack Whittaker, Read the original article here. A shareholder resolution aimed at halting Google’s efforts to bring a censored version of its search engine to China has failed. Shareholders tabled a resolution to demand Google put the brakes on its controversial … Continued The post Google defeats shareholders on ‘Dragonfly’ censored read more →
‘Experienced full religious freedom in India as vulnerable minority’: Tibetan Commissioner’s dissent note on US report
By DNA Web Team, Read the original article here. Dr Tenzin Dorjee, the Commmissioner of the USCIRF wrote a powerful dissent note. On Sunday, as there was much ballyhoo and outrage from the usual suspects over the US Religious Freedom Report 2018, … Continued The post ‘Experienced full religious freedom in India read more →
China, Pakistan, Saudi Worst for Human Rights; Mostly Muslims at the Receiving End – US Reports
By EurAsian Times, Read the original article here. The Annual Report on Religious Freedom, released this year has turned quite a few heads at the increasing atrocities towards minorities across the globe especially in China, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. The US … Continued The post China, Pakistan, Saudi Worst for Human read more →
Keep pressing China on human rights
By The Seattle Times editorial board, Read the original article here. President Donald Trump tweeted that he’ll have an “extended meeting” with China President Xi Jinping at the G-20 summit in Japan this week. Resolving the nations’ trade dispute, and getting China … Continued The post Keep pressing China on human rights read more →
Nepal and China discuss plans to upgrade military ties
Nepal Army chief General Purna Chandra Thapa on Thursday met China’s Defence Minister General Wei Fenghe and discussed plans to upgrade the military ties between the two neighboring countries. Thapa is on a week-long official tour to China. He arrived … Continued The post Nepal and China discuss plans to read more →
The Uneasy Future of the Nepal-China Railway
Tashi Sherpa runs the only teashop in Rasuwa Gadhi on the Nepal-China border, 170 km north of the capital Kathmandu. About 50 meters away, a group of Chinese workers is busy building a bridge that will link the two countries, … Continued The post The Uneasy Future of the Nepal-China read more →
Tibet: Successful Campaign Against Google Search Engine in China
After growing pressure from Tibetan, Chinese and Uyghur rights activists, Google has announced that it will refrain from offering a search engine in the People’s Republic of China. Over the last 10 months, this broad coalition of activists raised its … Continued The post Tibet: Successful Campaign Against Google Search read more →
To restore calm in Hong Kong, try democracy
IT WAS PROBABLY the largest political protest ever staged in Hong Kong. It may have been the biggest in China’s history. Organisers reckon that about 1.9m people joined the demonstration on June 16th. Even during the unrest in Tiananmen Square … Continued The post To restore calm in Hong Kong, read more →
Laws higher than sutras
While Hong Kongers may escape China’s educational scheme to test the monks’ and nuns’ legal knowledge, it will be difficult for Tibetans, Uyghurs or mainlanders to avoid them Chinese President Xi Jinping is travelling a lot these days; he went to Bishkek … Continued The post Laws higher than sutras appeared first read more →
Spy satellites reveal extent of Himalayan glacier loss
By Rebecca Morelle Science Correspondent, BBC News Images from Cold War spy satellites have revealed the dramatic extent of ice loss in the Himalayan glaciers. Scientists compared photographs taken by a US reconnaissance programme with recent spacecraft observations and found that melting in the region has doubled over the last read more →
Event Series Highlights Threats to Tibet’s Glaciers
Tibet accounts for an estimated 14.5 percent of the world’s total glacier mass, but climate change and air pollution are an increasing threat to the nation’s glaciers. The retreat of these glaciers causes grasslands to shrink and permafrost to thaw. It also … Continued The post Event Series Highlights Threats to Tibet’s read more →