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Tibet to build 250 bilingual kindergartens
ANS | Lhasa February 26, 2016 Last Updated at 12:54 IST Tibetan authorities are set to build 250 bilingual kindergartens in rural areas by 2020, a media report said on Friday. The regional government will increase the gross enrolment ratio in pre-school education to 80 percent during the 13th Five-Year read more →
A book gives wings to voices in exile
Times of India, March 5, 2016, KOCHI: Tibetans in exile have many stories to share with the world, stories of how they were uprooted from a land they inhabited for centuries, how their people were scattered across the Indian subcontinent, where they sought aslylum and how they hold on to read more →
Tibet supporters march in Taipei
By Abraham Gerber / Staff reporter Taipei Times, 06 March 2016 More than 200 people from more 20 civic groups and lawmakers marched through downtown Taipei yesterday in a call to free Tibet and uphold human rights. The march was to commemorate Tibetan Uprising Day — the March 10 anniversary read more →
Canada and major powers tell China its new laws go too far
The Globe and Mail, 1 March 2016 The United States, Canada, Germany, Japan and the European Union have written to China to express concern over three new or planned laws, including one on counterterrorism, in a rare joint bid to pressure Beijing into taking their objections seriously. The U.S., Canadian, read more →
The curious case of establishment 22
Amitava Sanyal, Hindustan Times Updated: Nov 15, 2009 01:31 IST It’s not easy to find Radug Ngawang’s house among the maze of narrow lanes in Majnu ka Tilla, the bustling Tibetan settlement by the Yamuna in north Delhi. As we get closer, some people offer us directions. After all, the read more →
U.N.: China confused about legitimate role of lawyers
By Pamela Boykoff, CNN Updated 0655 GMT (1455 HKT) February 17, 2016 Hong Kong (CNN)The United Nations human rights chief has expressed concern over China’s mounting crackdown on lawyers and government critics, describing recent arrests of activists as a “very worrying pattern.” Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the U.N. High Commissioner, read more →
Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China
QUARTZ This article was updated with additional analysis of what the new rules may mean, and information about foreign investment in China. In the latest sign that China’s long-touted “opening up” is reversing into a “closing down,” a Chinese ministry has issued new rules that ban any foreign-invested company from read more →
How China’s bottled water industry is posing a threat to Tibet
When identifying threats to Himalayan ecosystems, China stands out. For years, the People’s Republic has been engaged in frenzied damming of rivers and unbridled exploitation of mineral wealth on the resource-rich Tibetan Plateau. Now it is ramping up efforts to spur its bottled-water industry – the world’s largest and read more →
Apollo Chen urges Ma to give Dalai Lama another visa
Taipei Times, 1 March 2016 Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Apollo Chen (陳學聖) yesterday urged President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) to issue a visa to the Dalai Lama so the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader could visit before Ma’s term ends in May. “The Dalai Lama visited Taiwan in 1997, 2001 and read more →
New Taiwan president’s dilemma – to host or not to host the Dalai Lama?
Channel News Asia, 01 March 2016 Taiwan President-elect Tsai Ing-wen’s diplomatic honeymoon with China could be shortlived if she allows the Dalai Lama to visit the self-ruled democratic island that Beijing claims as its own, two senior political sources said. BEIJING/TAIPEI: Taiwan President-elect Tsai Ing-wen’s diplomatic honeymoon with China could read more →
Chinese celebrities warned not to mix with exiled Tibetans
FILE – In this April 26, 2012 file photo, Chinese pop singer Faye Wong, also known as Wang Fei, performs during the opening ceremony of the third World Buddhist Forum in Hong Kong. Chinas state media have criticized celebrities for attending an event on Feb. 14, 2016 in northern India read more →
Tibet closed to foreigners again but tourism booms
Lhasa: China has closed Tibet to overseas travelers from Thursday until the end of March, travel agents told CNN (CNN) By Kate Hunt, 26 February 2016 China has closed Tibet to overseas travelers from Thursday until the end of March, three travel agents told CNN, but with or without foreigners, read more →
The Washington insiders who work to get Chinese deals approved
By Diane Bartz and Greg Roumeliotis, Reuters, 24 February 2016 A spate of proposed Chinese takeovers of U.S. companies, from the Chicago Stock Exchange to makers of high-end semiconductors, has created a vibrant business for a small circuit of Washington insiders who advise on how to get cross-border deals approved read more →
100 million Chinese on the Roof of the World
By Claude Arpie, published in The Daily Pioneer on 25 February 2016 Tourism in China not only brings revenue to the regional Government, but also helps to ‘stabilise the plateau’. Unfortunately in India, the Nehruvian approach is still prevalent. Old mindsets need to be changed The Chinese leadership is clever; read more →
Dalai Lama is ‘vibrant and healthy’ in Minneapolis visit
Twin Cities.com, 21 February 2016 Elliot Veverka drove to Minneapolis from Deep River, Iowa, to check on the Dalai Lama’s health Sunday. Veverka, who lived for a time in the Dalai Lama’s hometown in India, said he was reassured after seeing the 80-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader in person. The 14th read more →