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World War II parade: Chinese President Xi Jinping announces military cut down by 30,000 troops
The Chinese World War II parade involved more than 12,000 troops, 500 pieces of military hardware and 200 aircraft of various types, representing what military officials say is the Chinese military’s most cutting-edge technology. World War II March: Chinese soldiers march into position ahead of a military parade commemorating the read more →
Exiled Tibetan Gov’t Warns China Not to Meddle in Tradition
New York Times DHARMSALA, India — The exiled Tibetan government said it saw no cause for celebrating 50 years since China formed the Tibetan Autonomous Region, insisting that Tuesday instead marked a half-century of occupation and control over the once-independent Himalayan kingdom. It also warned China against proceeding with its read more →
Tibetan autonomy reaches 50, wishes unresolved
31 August, Euro News Beijing is celebrating 50 years since it made Tibet an autonomous region. This follows a couple of months after long-exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama turned 80, and was feted in Glastonbury, England, in June. He has contested China’s iron rule in Tibet since 1950. read more →
China denies all universal rights to Tibet even after 50 years of rule (Part-II)
Business Standard, 1 September 2015 Its been more than 50 years since China established complete control over Tibet and in this period China has institutionalised a system of two policies – one for the Chinese people and another for the Tibetans. Hong Kong based Tibet watchers who on the condition read more →
China denies all universal rights to Tibet even after 50 years of rule (Part-II)
By ANI on September 1, 2015 at 9:58 AM Hong Kong, Sep.1 : Its been more than 50 years since China established complete control over Tibet and in this period China has institutionalised a system of two policies – one for the Chinese people and another for the Tibetans. Hong read more →
Xi stresses unity for Tibet, vows fight against separatism
Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), addresses a meeting on the work of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region which last from Aug. 24 to 25 in Beijing, capital of China. read more →
China Will Never Accept Dalai Lama’s “Middle Way”
By Liu Rong (People’s Daily Online) 05:16, August 26, 2015 The Chinese central government will never accept the “Middle Way” proposed by the DalaLama group, China’s United Front said in its official website in an article pen namedKelsang. The article was posted after the Chinese Central Government ended its sixth workingconference on read more →
Tibetan NGO on a roll with ‘Clean Water Project’
Phayul[Monday, August 24, 2015 18:54] By Tenzin Dharpo DHARAMSHALA, August 24: Around 11000 residents of McLeod Ganj have attributed a renewed importance to ‘drinking water’ as a priced commodity owing to the excess urbanization of the area without balancing counter measures and the contamination of glacial water sources putting out read more →
Himalayan Tibet Museum comes into being in Hills
by Amitava Banerjee, Hindustan Times, Kolkata on 15 July 2015 DARJEELING: Ask anyone in Darjeeling Sarat Chandra Das was and it would definitely invite a blank stare. The first Tibetan to English dictionary with Sanskrit equivalents was written by Sarat Chandra Das. The dictionary is still being used. Das, an read more →
Himalayan Tibet Museum : The new cultural attraction in Darjeeling
Good News Sikkim, August 2015 A new cultural attraction for both locals and tourists in Darjeeling has come up-The Himalayan Tibet Museum. Set up by the efforts of Manjushree Centre of Tibetan Culture (MCTC) at Gandhi Road in Darjeeling, the museum is blessed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama who read more →
Chinese hackers spying on Tibetan groups in India for years, experts say
Cybersecurity firm says hackers on the mainland have targeted Tibetan exile groups for at least four years, claim long denied by Beijing By James Griffiths, South China Morning Post, 22 August 2015 Chinese hackers are believed to have targeted Tibetan exile groups in India that Beijing views as a threat read more →
Immolations are just one sign of tension over Communist rule
Monks gather for debates in the courtyard at Kirti Monastery in Aba, in Sichuan province. Carolyn Cole/ Los Angeles Times The Los Angeles Times, 22 August 2015 By the time Dongtuk arrived, the body was gone. A pack of matches lay on the ground, the only sign of the horror read more →
RESTORE TIBETAN PLATEAU’S GUARDIANSHIP TO TIBETANS, SAYS SIKYONG
tibetpolicy.net Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay, the political leader of the Tibetan people, today joined several scholars at the prestigious Delhi University in the heart of the Indian capital to discuss the health of the Tibetan Plateau and its impact on the rest of Asia. Sikyong Dr Sangay delivered the keynote read more →
Scaling China’s Great Firewall
by Murong Xuecu, New York Times, 17 August 2015 In the fall of 2011, a friend and I got on to discussing Tibet. “Do you know,” he said, “that Tibetans are setting fire to themselves?” I had spent from 2005 to 2008 in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, but I had never read more →
Scaling China’s Great Firewall
AUGUST 17, 2015 In the fall of 2011, a friend and I got on to discussing Tibet. “Do you know,” he said, “that Tibetans are setting fire to themselves?” I had spent from 2005 to 2008 in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, but I had never heard of acts of self-immolation. read more →