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Liberal think tank is latest to be silenced in China
By GERRY SHIH, AP, 25 January 2017 BEIJING (AP) — Authorities in China have shuttered the website and social media accounts of a prominent economics think tank amid a mounting assault on liberal academic voices. The Unirule Institute of Economics in Beijing has become the latest target of a government read more →
New Delhi rolls the dice on Tibet
By Harsh V Pant | Wed, 25 Jan 2017 – DNA Appeasing China by sacrificing the interests of the Tibetan people have not yielded any benefits to India China’s refusal to acknowledge Indian national security concerns is now leading to a gradual but significant change in India’s Tibet policy. The read more →
China abandoning rule of law, human rights lawyers say
Authors called on Xi Jinping to uphold international law if China truly wants the responsibility of a global power. Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters The Guardian – 24 January 2017 Group of leading lawyers and judges expresses ‘grave concern’ over the detention of legal professionals Top human rights lawyers say Xi Jinping’s read more →
China Poised to Repeat Tibet Mistakes
Chen Quanguo visits a “convenience police-post” in Lhasa, TAR, during Chinese New Year festivities in 2012.© China Tibet News By Sophie Richardson, China Director, Human Rights Watch, January 20, 2017 Abusive Policies Planned for Uyghur Region It looks like China is exporting the same abusive policies it has been using read more →
Historian’s Latest Book on Mao Turns Acclaim in China to Censure
The Chinese author Yang Jisheng in 2013. Mr. Yang, a noted chronicler of the Mao era, has published “The World Turned Upside Down,” a history of the Cultural Revolution. By Chris Buckley, The New York Times, January 21, 2017 BEIJING — It seemed that China’s censors had finally muzzled Yang read more →
Dharamshala is HP second capital
Times of India, 20 January 2017 Dharamshala: Chief minister Virbhadra Singh on Thursday declared Dharamsala, situated in the snow-capped Dhauladhar range, the second capital of Himachal Pradesh. Making the announcement here in the evening, he said the town had a history of its own and fully deserved to be the read more →
Does Tibet’s New Governor Signal Change?
Meet Tibet’s new governor, and the other figures shaping China’s Tibet policy. By Tshering Chonzom Bhutia, The Diplomat, January 19, 2017 On January 16, the Chinese government announced the appointment of Che Dalha (known as Qi Zhala in Chinese) as the new chair (equivalent to governor) of the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). read more →
Tibetan PM-in-exile lauds Indian government’s open support
Hindustan Times – 17 January 2017 – New Delhi The Narendra Modi government’s public display of traditional Indian support to the Tibetan cause is a welcome move that would send a direct message to China, Prime Minister of Tibetan government in exile Lobsang Sangay said on Tuesday. The 48-year-old leader read more →
China: Drop Charges Against Tibetan Education Activist
Human Rights Watch (New York) – Chinese authorities should immediately drop the politically motivated case against a Tibetan shopkeeper who has publicly supported education in the Tibetan language, Human Rights Watch said today. A trial is expected to take place soon. Tashi Wangchuk, 31, was detained on January 27, 2016, read more →
China appoints new Tibet Governor: Xinhua
Reuters, 15 January 2017 Qi Zhala (58) of Tibetan ethnicity will be the second-most powerful figure in the region. China has appointed a new Governor of Tibet, one of the country’s most politically-sensitive regions, state news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday. A thirty-five-year veteran of the Communist Party, Qi Zhala read more →
Swiss limit Tibetan protest against visit by Chinese president
By John Miller | ZURICH – Reuters Swiss authorities say a planned protest by pro-Tibetan groups against Xi Jinping must end before his arrival in Bern on Sunday, in a bid to avoid the kind of confrontation that marked the last visit by a Chinese president 18 years ago. Members read more →
Hundreds of Tibetans defy China, Gather at Birthplace of Buddhism in India
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is assisted by his aides as he prepares to perform rituals during the inauguration of a Mongolian Buddhist temple in Bodh Gaya, India, Jan. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Manish Bhandari) By Annie Gowen, The Washington Post, 13 January 2017 The young Tibetan monk was taking his elderly read more →
Kalchakra: Dalai Lama offers special prayers for absentee followers
Times of India – 12 January 2017 GAYA: Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Wednesday offered special prayers for the devotees from Tibet and China who could not attend the Kalchakra rituals on account of restrictions imposed by the Chinese authorities. Thousands of pilgrims from Tibet went back without participating read more →
Dalai Lama hails liquor prohibition in Bihar
Indian Express – 11 January 2017 The Dalai Lama also reminded his devotees that Lord Buddha said consumption of even a drop of alcohol is a sin and how Mahatma Gandhi also tried to bring in prohibition. Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, who is in Bodh Gaya for the read more →
Tibetan leader rejects China’s demand for recalling Tibetan pilgrims
ANI news published by Business Standard – 10 January 2017 Tibet’s exiled Prime Minister Lobsang Sangay has rejected China’s demand for a recall of Tibetan pilgrims attending the Kalchakra Mandal initiation conferred by the Dalai Lamba. Beijing has imposed severe travel restrictions on Tibetans in a bid to block their read more →