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Requiem for a river
The Economist GUO, the driver, pulls his car to a merciful halt high above a crevasse: time for a cigarette, and after seven hours of shuddering along narrow, twisting roads, time for his passengers to check that their fillings remain in place. Lighting up, he steps out of the car read more →
Tibetan Leader Visits Birmingham
Published on 12 February 2016 – AL.com After the visit of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in 2014, Birmingham will get a follow-up visit from the Tibetan prime minister. The Birmingham Committee on Foreign Relations will host Dr. Lobsang Sangay, the elected head of the Central Tibetan Administration and read more →
Highly prized ‘caterpillar fungus’ declared a danger to health by China’s food and drug administration
South China Morning Post, 5 February 2016 Cordyceps, or caterpillar fungus, one of the most sought-after and expensive ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine, has been deemed a danger to human health by China’s main food and drug regulator, mainland media report. A recent examination by the State Food and Drug read more →
Dolma asks Government of India to clear policy on Tibet
Daily Excelsior, 6 February 2016 JAMMU, Feb 6: Fully agreeing with the general public opinion in the country as well as among the people of Tibet that Tibet is not the part of China but has been forcibly annexed by it, Senior RSS leader and Member of its National Executive, read more →
Top China defector passes state secrets to US
By Jamil Anderlini and Tom Mitchell, FT, US intelligence agencies interrogating the brother of a disgraced Communist official believe he is the most valuable Chinese defector to flee to America, according to two people familiar with some of the intelligence he has provided. The defector, Ling Wancheng, is the brother read more →
No escape? China’s crackdown on dissent goes global
By Ivan Watson, Pamela Boykoff, Kocha Olarn and Judy Kwon, CNN, 5 February 2016 Bangkok (CNN) – Yu Yanhua hasn’t been back to her apartment in days. She’s been too frightened, she says, after at least four dissidents of Chinese origin were arrested or simply disappeared from Thailand in the read more →
China’s Overseas Abductions
The Wall Street Journal, 4 February 2016 Chinese dissident journalist Li Xin went missing on Jan. 11 in Thailand. On Wednesday he phoned his wife from China, telling her, “I came back to China willingly to face investigation.” Mr. Li’s wife, He Fangmei, wasn’t fooled. “I know it was all read more →
Dear India, Thank You for Letting Me Stay, Writes Tibetan Refugee
From: http://www.thequint.com/ LETTER TO INDIA Brought to you by Motorola Dear India, Thank You for Letting Me Stay, Writes Tibetan Refugee Tenzin Tsomo is a Tibetan refugee, who lives in a small flat near Yamuna River. She finally opens up on how she feels about India after two decades of read more →
U.S. calls on China to clarify status of booksellers
By David Brunnstrom, Reuters, 1 February 2016 WASHINGTON – The United States called on China on Monday to clarify the status of five missing Hong Kong booksellers, saying the case raised serious questions about China’s commitment to Hong Kong’s autonomy under the one country, two systems framework. The booksellers, including read more →
China sentences 2 men to death in slaying of Tibetan monk
By GERRY SHIH, 31 January 2016 5:31 AM EST BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese court sentenced two men to death in the 2013 killing of Akong Rinpoche, a well-known religious figure who founded the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the West and built an international network of spiritual retreats. Thubten Kunsal, a Tibetan man read more →
Why the Dalai Lama may be India’s noblest resident
Ramachandra Guha, Hindustan Times, 31 January 2016 Unlike the airport in my home town, Bengaluru, or the airports in two cities I visit often, Mumbai and Delhi, the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose airport in Kolkata is run not by a private firm but by the Airports Authority of India. This read more →
Ending Powerlessness, Changing the World
By Chade-Meng Tan, Co-Chair of One Billion Acts of Peace Eight young Tibetan students living in India set out to do something seemingly impossible: provide an entire slum community with access to clean water. These students, led by 18-year-old Tenzin Loden, were inspired by a budding campaign called One Billion read more →
Eye on China: India to build satellite station in Vietnam
Times of India, 25 January 2016 NEW DELHI/HONG KONG: India will set up a satellite tracking and imaging centre in southern Vietnam that will give Hanoi access to pictures from Indian earth observation satellites that cover the region, including China and the South China Sea, Indian officials said. India will read more →
China has no business in reincarnation system: Tibetan PM-in-exile
Hindustan Times, 23 January 2016 Tibetan Prime Minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay has condemned the Chinese government’s spiritual cataloguing system, while terming it an attempt to control the reincarnation system of monks in Tibetan Buddhism. Highlighting China’s track record of destroying 98 percent of monasteries and nunneries in Tibet as well as read more →
A crisis of faith
Published in the print edition of The Economist, 16 January 2016 In their response to wobbly markets, China’s leaders reveal their fears THERE should be something comforting, during uncertain times, in the sight of the boss solidly seated behind his desk, working away at the business of the day. And read more →