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Tibetan monks shy away from self-immolation as families threatened
By Benjamin Haas, AFP, 22 December 2015 Adrak’s last words before Chinese police dragged him away were “May the Dalai Lama live 10,000 years”. The 20-year-old Tibetan monk was carrying the spiritual leader’s portrait as he walked down the main street outside his monastery, also calling for freedom for Tibet. read more →
Senior Tibetan official warns on discrimination in China
Ben Blanchard, Reuters, 22 December 2015 BEIJING – The Chinese-appointed former governor of Tibet warned on Tuesday that the government needed to make more efforts to tackle ethnic discrimination, state media said, in rare comments by a senior official on an issue more commonly taken up by rights groups. Qiangba read more →
The politics of Tibet’s poisonous religious divide
By David Lague, Paul Mooney and Benjamin Kang Lim, Reuters, 21 December 2015 The doctrinal schism that the Chinese Communist Party is using to hound the Dalai Lama arose long ago in the internecine politics of his own school of Tibetan Buddhism. Dalai Lamas are drawn from the dominant Gelugpa read more →
Dalai Lama to remain on no-frisking list at airports
By Mihir Misra, The Economic Times, 21 December 2015 NEW DELHI: The government has decided to continue granting Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama exemption from frisking at airports across the country, even as it has removed Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra from the list of people accorded this read more →
China landslide sparks gas explosion and leaves dozens missing
Agence France-Presse in Beijing, 20 December 2015 A landslide which swept through an industrial park in southern China buried more than 30 buildings in a sea of mud, leaving 91 people missing and triggering a gas explosion, state media has reported. Witnesses described a mass of red earth and mud read more →
A Showcase of Tibetan Culture Serves Chinese Political Goals
The New York Times, 19 December 2015 BATANG GRASSLANDS, China — Women came in finery, wearing bright silk dresses, silver belts and necklaces with turquoise and coral. Men sauntered across the field in boots and cowboy hats. Some nomads had ridden motorcycles for days from valleys in Sichuan Province. They read more →
Tibet Can’t Kick Its Subsidy Habit
Photographer: Damir Sagolj/Reuters By Dexter Roberts, Bloomberg.com, 17 December 2015 It’s growing at double-digit rates with Beijing subsidies, but it’s still poor. As China’s economy settles into slower growth, President Xi Jinping has been touting the benefits of what he calls the “new normal,” including a more equitable distribution of read more →
Paris agreement only first step, says Tibetan official
ZEE News, Last Updated: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 – 22:12 Dharamsala: The agreement in Paris on climate change is a step in the right direction, but it is only a first step, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) said on Tuesday. It also emphasised that a comprehensive understanding of global climate read more →
China’s plan to ‘liberate’ a cradle of Tibetan culture
By Emily Rauhala, 14 December 2015 TONGREN, China — Two photographs grace the walls of the Tibetan farmer’s home. In the courtyard, affixed with silver tacks: Xi Jinping, smiling. Inside, by the light of a yak butter candle: the Dalai Lama in monk’s robes. Here, in a region called Qinghai read more →
Empowering digital Tibet: An interview with activist Lhadon Tethong
Rignam Wangkhang for IFEX 9 December 2015 Lhadon Tethong is one of the most prominent and recognizable leaders in the Tibetan freedom movement. She first became a spokeswoman on Tibetan issues after her speech at the 1998 Tibetan Freedom Concerts inspired a new generation of Tibetan supporters. Lhadon then went read more →
Britain criticised for praising China on UN Human Rights Day
By Christy Yao, The Guardian-11 December 2015 Activists attack ‘unacceptable’ statement by UK embassy, which lauds Beijing over civil and political rights but overlooks crackdown on critics Britain has sparked consternation among activists after marking the United Nations’ Human Rights Day by quoting the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, and praising read more →
Dalai Lama on compassion
By Terry Reis Kennedy, Deccan Herald- 14 December 2015 My heart is stronger than my mind. I know I am supposed to be compassionate and loving towards all. I know that abusers of all kinds are acting in accordance with their own views of life. I can forgive and I read more →
By Buying Paper, Alibaba Seeks To Polish China’s Image
Chris Buckley and Jane Perlez, The New York Times, 14 December 2015 BEIJING — The Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda boss, Liu Qibao, has extolled the success of Alibaba, the giant Internet company, as the kind of uplifting story that offsets the country’s reputation abroad as corrupt and authoritarian. “We have read more →
Chinese internet giant Alibaba buys South China Morning Post for $266m
Agence France-Presse, The Guardian, 14 December 2015 Hong Kong – Chinese internet giant Alibaba will pay $266m for Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post, the newspaper said on Monday, in an acquisition that has sparked fears the paper will lose its independent voice. The deal comes at a time when read more →
Use social media for promoting unity: Tibetan PM-in-exile Lobsang Sangay
Tibetan PM-in-exile Lobsang Sangay hoisting the Tibetan National Flag at a function organisation to celebrate 26th anniversary of conferment of Nobel Peace Prize to Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, at Tsuglakhang Temple in McleodGanj on Thursday. Shyam Sharma/HT (Shyam Sharma/HT) By Naresh K Thakur, Hindustan Times, 10 December 2015 read more →