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Tibetans Worldwide cast their votes
The current prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, Mr Lobsang Sangay, is recontesting the top job.PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE The Strait Times, 19 October 2015 DHARAMSALA (India) • Thousands of Tibetans worldwide voted yesterday for a political leader to keep up their struggle for greater freedom in China and to head read more →
Chinese Scholar on “Pitfalls in the Next Stage of China’s Rise”
FTchinese.com (Essay written on the Chinese website essay of the (UK) Financial Times) This article is eighth in a series of commentaries on the “The Silk Road Economic Belt, the 21st-century Maritime Silk Road and the Transformation of China’s Foreign Policy” Chinese scholars who frequently travel abroad have all had read more →
As Tibetan exiles vote, candidates discuss views on China
By Ashwini Bhatia , AP October 18 DHARAMSALA, India — As Tibetans around the world voted Sunday in the first round of elections to choose a new government-in-exile, candidates were debating how to carry on their campaign to free their Himalayan homeland from Chinese rule.Hundreds of Tibetans, including monks and nuns read more →
Monitoring China’s biggest hydropower plant in Tibet, says India
ANI, Zee News, 15 October 2015 New Delhi: As China completed the biggest hydropower plant in Tibet, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Vikas Swarup on Thursday said India is monitoring the situation and may convey its concerns to Beijing. China has constructed Zangmu hydropower facility in Tibet, the largest so far to read more →
China’s Great Game: New frontier, old foes
Tom Mitchell, Financial Times, 13 October 2015 FT series: Beijing’s attempts to tame energy-rich Xinjiang may be stoking unrest from its ethnic Uighurs As one of the world’s most remote and landlocked regions, Xinjiang is not high on the itinerary for foreign dignitaries visiting China. So when George Osborne, the read more →
Britain and China to hail ‘golden’ ties during Xi visit
By Elizabeth Piper, Reuters, 13 October 2015 LONDON (Reuters) – When British finance minister George Osborne told Chinese students his daughter studied Mandarin during a visit to Beijing in 2013, it was a clear personal bid to heal strained ties. Fast forward two years and Osborne’s revelation and his dogged read more →
Tibetans displaced within region ‘amid rampant mining’
By Navin Singh KhadkaEnvironment reporter, BBC News 13 December 2013 From the section Science & Environment Image captionCampaigners and researchers say that mining operations have gathered apace in recent years A record number of Tibetans have been displaced in their own homeland amid rampant mining and river damming in vacated areas, read more →
China operationalises biggest dam on Brahmaputra in Tibet
The Times of India, 13 October 2015 BEIJING: China on Tuesday operationalised the USD 1.5 billion Zam Hydropower Station, the largest in Tibet, built on the Brahmaputra river, which has raised concerns in India over the likelihood of disrupting water supplies. All six of the station’s units were incorporated into read more →
In China’s “other Tibet,” Xi Jinping is using human rights rhetoric to oppress an entire people
Twenty years ago, Beijing hosted a landmark international summit on women’s rights. This weekend, China’s president Xi Jinping reiterated his country’s “commitment to gender equality and women’s development.” These are bold words, but they ring hollow. Because for 60 years, China has used the read more →
Richard Gere among those chosen to honor absent Dalai Lama at Liberty Medal ceremony
By Christina Lobrutto, phillyvoice.com His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet was chosen to receive the 2015 Liberty Medal in a special ceremony on Oct. 26. However, last month, his office announced the cancellation of the entire U.S. trip due to health issues. The Dalai Lama was also supposed to appear at a teaching session read more →
Less snow in Tibet means more heatwaves in Europe
Beth Walker, Chinadialogue.net Worsening heatwaves in Europe and north-east Asia are linked to thinner snowcover on the Tibetan Plateau, highlighting its key role in global weather systems, a study by Chinese scientists finds. Recent summer heatwaves in Europe and northeast Asia have caused massive water shortages and a large number read more →
The Tibetan Argument for Autonomy
By Tenzin Norgay, The Diplomat, September 30, 2015 Fifty years after the creation of the Tibet Autonomous Region, it is time for Tibet to have true autonomy. Earlier this month, Beijing marked the fiftieth anniversary of establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region with a mass spectacle in Lhasa designed to showcase its read more →
China micromanages Tibet, floods it with money to woo locals
By Aritz Parra, AP, 30 September 2015 LHASA, China (AP) — Ji Yunpeng misses hotpot dinners with his wife and daughter back in Beijing and fights insomnia caused by the high altitude in the Tibetan capital by playing computer games, and, occasionally, studying Tibetan Buddhism. “It’s just out of pure read more →
Police face enquiry over Tibet flag suppression
Published: 29 Sep 2015 07:34 GMT+02:00 http://www.thelocal.dk/20150929/copenhagen-police-face-enquiry-over-tibet-flag-supression Copenhagen Police are under renewed scrutiny for suppressing demonstrations during a Chinese state visit in 2012 and will now face a formal enquiryThe Eastern High Court last week ruled in favour of a plaintiff who claimed he was unlawfully detained by Copenhagen Police during read more →
Dalai Lama meeting in Rochester with local Tibetans
Josh Moniz, jmoniz@postbulletin.com The Dalai Lama, the exiled Buddhist leader of Tibet, will meet with several members of Minnesota’s Tibetan community Wednesday at Mayo Civic Center in Rochester. The president and board members of the Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota will be among the group attending the 9 a.m. meeting, which read more →