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It took barley for humans to climb the mountains of Tibet
[Washington Post] By Rachel Feltman When the first humans made their homes at high altitude, they may have had barley to thank. According to research published Thursday in Science, it was probably the introduction of frost-resistant western crops that allowed early Tibetans to survive at about 8,200 feet. There’s evidence of read more →
‘Incursions will hurt ties’: Rajnath Singh hits out at China for ‘illegal occupation’
[Daily Mail] Home Minister Rajnath Singh was in Leh to address a public rally when he touched on the sensitive issue of China’s occupation of Indian territory Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday that Beijing has illegally occupied the Aksai Chin region in Ladakh, and blamed the Congress for read more →
His Holiness the Dalai Lama graces World Hindu Congress
His Holiness the Dalai Lama delivering the inaugural address at the 1st World Hindu Congress in New Delhi, India on November 21, 2014. Photo/Tenzin Choejor/OHHDL [dalailama.com] New Delhi, India, 21 November 2014: Before setting out for his other engagements this morning, His Holiness the Dalai Lama met with a representative of read more →
Call for NZ Govt to raise Tibetan issues with China’s president
NZPA, Fuseworks As president Xi Jinping of China pays short visit to New Zealand, of Friends of Tibet (NZ) has called upon Foreign Minister Hon Murray McCully and the Prime Minister Rt Hon John Key to raise the issue of Human Rights violations in Tibet by the Chinese Government. The read more →
PHOTOS: The young Tibetan exiles who can’t remember their homeland
By Nick Kirkpatrick November 13 A car moves on a serpentine road past snow-capped peaks near Zoji La in India. (Tsering Topgyal/AP) When Tsering Topgyal was 8, his parents paid a smuggler to take him from his family home in Tibet to India. For weeks, he walked through the Himalayas read more →
Poisoning Tibetan Rivers: Why is it not so natural?
[Edd blog] By Tempa Gyaltsen Zamlha “In the past, our rivers were crisp and clean, the mountains and valleys were known for their natural beauty. But now the rivers are polluted with poisonous waste from the mines,” is what a local resident said to Radio Free Asia hoping that letting the news read more →
Sizing up Xi’s ‘Friendly Overture’- Part 1
By Lobsang Yeshi * (published on tibetpolicy.net) (‘Xi has no firm grip over PLA.’ ‘Xi is not responsible for the recent PLA incursion in Ladakh?’ – A Reality Check) Introduction When the Chinese President Xi Jinping returned to Beijing from India this September, he addressed China’s top military officials at read more →
Concerning the Current Wave of “Protest Demonstrations” Against His Holiness the Dalai Lama
By Robert Thurman, Huffington Post, 3 November 2014 Concerning The Current Wave of “Protest Demonstrations” Against His Holiness the Dalai Lama by the Just-formed New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) Shugden Protest Front Group, The International Shugden Community (ISC). In the case of the current wave of ISC “protests” against the Dalai read more →
6 Things You Should Know About the Anti-Dalai Lama Protesters
By Tenzin Dorjee* Huffington Post, 5 November 2014 Few leaders of our time have achieved a popularity and reverence more universal and enduring than the Dalai Lama. Through his tireless work to promote social justice, universal responsibility, secular ethics, interfaith harmony, and nonviolent principles, he has made a monumental contribution read more →
YouTube Suspends Fake Tibet Propaganda Accounts After Investigation
One of the fake YouTube accounts found by Free Tibet that publishes pro-China governance over Tibet. YouTube/ Free Tibet By Michelle FlorCruz, International Business Times, 4 November 2014, From designer hand bags to entire copycat towns, China has an impressively long list of fakes, but none as bizarre as the read more →
The International Campaign for Tibet’s statement on the Shugden demonstrators
[Savetibet.org] 31 October 2014 The International Campaign for Tibet is dismayed by the demonstrations by some Buddhists in the name of “International Shugden Community” aimed at undermining the work of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. While we leave it to the learned Buddhists to comment on the validity of the read more →
Modi’s India spurs China concern
(China Post) By Frank Ching I am a very modest man,” Narendra Modi, who as a young man sold tea by the railroad but who became India’s prime minister in May, told 18,500 cheering fans in New York’s Madison Square Garden last week. “That’s why I plan to do big read more →
China’s crackdown slows Tibetan refugee crossings to freedom in India
Tibetan monk Jigme Gyatso spent more than 18 months on the run from Chinese authorities before arriving in India in May. Heightened border security by China has made it difficult for Tibetan refugees to flee to freedom in India. (Annie Gowen/The Washington Post) By Annie Gowen October 19, The Washington read more →
Chinese tourists treat Tibetans ‘like zoo animals’
Illustration/ Tibet Watch Susannah George, GlobalPost DHARAMSALA, India — Chinese tourists behave badly in Tibet. Very badly, according to London-based advocacy group Tibet Watch. The evidence? A series of photos in the group’s report shows sightseers treating sacred objects like curiosities in a theme park, tourists trampling prayer flags and read more →
PM not meeting, but not ‘snubbing,’ Dalai Lama on his Canadian visit
His Holiness the Dalai Lama participating in a roundtable discussion with corporate CEOs in Vancouver, Canada on October 22, 2014. Photo/Jeremy Russell/OHHDL The Vancouver Sun, 23 October 2014 OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper won’t meet the Dalai Lama during his current visit to Canada. However, one of the Conservative read more →