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Tibet, China will move beyond mistrust, says Dalai Lama
The Statesman/ANN DHARAMSALA (The Statesman/ANN News Desk) – The Dalai Lama hopes relations between Tibet and China can move past mistrust. Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama on Wednesday said he hoped that relations with China would move beyond mistrust as he reiterated his commitment to resolving the issue of read more →
‘Skeleton God’: Exorcising Demons in Tibet
By Jonathan DeHart, Mysterious murders, corruption, and the ghosts of history haunt the fictional Tibetan town of Yangkar. Media coverage of Tibet tends to be bleak, from the Chinese government mounting security cameras around the childhood home of the current Dalai Lama to Buddhist monks setting themselves on fire to read more →
U.S. lawmakers not backing down on human rights for Tibet, Pelosi says
By Douglas Busvine, Reuters, 10 May 2017 Top U.S. lawmakers delivered a blunt message to China on Wednesday that they would not relent in their campaign to protect human rights in Tibet, calling for legislative and trade steps to press home their point. Nancy Pelosi, leading a bipartisan Congressional delegation read more →
US committed to Tibetan cause: Pelosi tells Dalai Lama
The Outlook, 10 May 2017 Washington/dharamshala, May 10 Top Democratic Party leader Nancy Pelosi, who met the Dalai Lama, has affirmed US’ commitment to the Tibetan people, their faith, culture and language. Pelosi along with a bipartisan delegation met the 81- year-old Tibetan spiritual leader yesterday in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh. read more →
US reps, Dalai Lama take aim at China sore spot Tibet
By Fox News, Democratic leader in the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi greets Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama at the Tsuglagkhang temple in Dharmsala, India, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. A group from US Congress is taking aim at one of China’s sore spots, Tibet, during a meeting in India read more →
U.S. lawmakers visit Dalai Lama, highlight situation in Tibet
By Douglas Busvine, DHARAMSALA, India U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi meets Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at his headquarters in Dharamsala, India May 9, 2017. REUTERS/Douglas Busvine A U.S. Congressional delegation visited the Dalai Lama at his headquarters in India on Tuesday, seeking to draw world attention to read more →
Fred Frederikse: ‘Better to die a good death’
Dr Lobsang Sangay, prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile By Fred Frederikse, Wanganui Chronicle 9 May 2017 Millisphere, noun. A “sphere of interest” of roughly one-thousandth of the world’s population. Around 7 million people, but anywhere between 3.5 and 14 million will do. A lens through which to study human read more →
To Assuage India, China Offered – Briefly – To Rename $46 Billion Corridor
By Alokke Tikku, NDTV, China offered to consider renaming the China-Pakistan Corridor passing through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. New Delhi: Just days before its One Belt One Road (OBOR) Summit next week, China offered to consider renaming the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor that passes through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir if this is what it read more →
Tibetan teen sets himself on fire shouting ‘Tibet wants freedom’ and ‘let Dalai Lama come back’
By Ananya Roy- May 8, 2017 – International Business Times In yet another self-immolation incident in Tibet, a 16-year-old male student recently set himself on fire, shouting: “Tibet wants Freedom. Let His Holiness the Dalai Lama come back to Tibet.” Sources told Radio Free Asia that the incident took place read more →
Tibetan Monk Detained on Suspicion of ‘Passing Information’ Outside Protest Area
By Pema Ngodup for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Karma Dorjee. Written in English by Richard Finney, Map showing the location of Kardze and Nyagrong counties in Sichuan. Police in western China’s Sichuan province have detained a Tibetan monk suspected of spreading news about recent self-immolation protests to outside contacts, read more →
Belt and Road Center to attract Chinese Investor to Penang
By Tan Sin Chow, GEORGE TOWN: Penang MCA will set up a Belt and Road Centre to promote trade and investment, tourism, shipping, logistics and other business opportunities between Malaysia and China. The centre will be headed by state MCA PRC Affairs Committee chairman Datuk Koay Kar Huah (pic) with read more →
Tibetan Teenager Stages Self-Immolation Protest in Gansu
RFA, Tibetan monks gather at Gansu’s Labrang monastery in a file photo. A 16-year-old student in a Tibetan region of Gansu staged a self-immolation protest on May 2 against Chinese rule, RFA’s Tibetan service has learned. A source inside Tibet said Chagdor Kyab from Bora Township, in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous read more →
China ready to amend name of CPEC to appease India
By DNA editorial team, Under the pretext of not disrupting bilateral relations between India and China, Ambassador Luo Zhaohui said the latter is ready to change the name of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) passing through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). Addressing a session at the United Service Institution of India read more →
Tibetans welcome Pelosi visit to Dharamsala to meet Dalai Lama
Lalit K Jha, India Today, 6 May 2017 Washington, May 6 (PTI) A top Tibetan body has welcomed the decision of a US Congressional delegation led by top Democratic leader Nany Pelosi to meet the Dalai Lama next week, saying it sends a “strong message” to China that America cares read more →
US Senator Nancy Pelosi to lead high-powered Congressional delegation to meet Dalai Lama in India
The New Indian Express – 05th May 2017 US senator Nancy Pelosi will be leading a seven-member delegation of Congressmen to Dharamsala in the hill state of Himachal Pradesh to meet Tibetan leader-in-exile Dalai Lama next week. An official of Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) said that Pelosi, a Democratic party read more →