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China’s latest crackdown on religion bans foreigners from spreading church and spiritual content online
By Amber Wang, South China Morning Post – 22 December 2021 All foreign organisations or individuals will be banned from spreading religious content online in China under new regulations released on Monday, in what Beijing says is another effort to safeguard its national security. No organisation or individual will be read more →
Swami Chidanand Saraswati, Dr. Her Rey Sheng & Dr. Mohammed Deen receives first Shravasti Awards
Published in Reach Ladakh Bulletin, Leh – 20 December 2021 LEH : First Shravasti award winners, Swami Chidanand Saraswati, Dr. Her Rey Sheng, and Dr. Mohammed Deen were awarded Shravasti Spiritual Leadership award, Shravasti Humanities award, and the Shravasti Environmental award respectively on December 20. Adhering to the principle of read more →
Pradeep Kumar Rawat appointed as India’s new envoy to China
The Indian Express – 20 December 2021 Senior Indian diplomat Pradeep Kumar Rawat, who is well-versed in negotiating with Chinese diplomats, was on Monday appointed as India’s next Ambassador to China. Rawat will succeed Vikram Misri. “He is expected to take up the assignment shortly,” the Ministry of External Affairs read more →
Buying Influence: How China Manipulates Facebook and Twitter
By Muyi Xiao, Paul Mozur and Gray Beltran – The New York Times December 20, 2021 Flood global social media with fake accounts used to advance an authoritarian agenda. Make them look real and grow their numbers of followers. Seek out online critics of the state – and find out read more →
Assam: Lecture highlights China’s dams on Brahmaputra, Tibetan culture
Northeast Now-21 December 2021 A lecture on ‘Brahmaputra valley and Tibetan Culture’ was organised on Monday by the Department of Anthropology, DHS Kanoi College in association with Free Tibet-A Voice from Assam at Srimanta Sankardev Sabhakakhya in DHS Kanoi College on Monday. While speaking on the topic, Soumyadeep Datta, regional convenor, Northeast read more →
U.S. Under Secretary of State Zeya designated as Special Coordinator for Tibetan issues
Reuters – 20 December 2021 Dec 20 (Reuters) – U.S. Under Secretary of State Uzra Zeya was designated as the U.S. Special Coordinator for Tibetan issues, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement on Monday. “She will also continue to serve as Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, read more →
Chinese Authorities Double Down on Tibetan Reincarnations
-Human Rights Watch Communist Party Aims to Control Dalai Lama Selection. In late November, a senior local Chinese Communist Party official toured three townships in Sog, a county in the Tibet Autonomous Region that has a history of resistance to state controls on religion. His goal: to ensure local Tibetan officials endorse government read more →
Support Olympic boycott, ex-political prisoner urges Luxembourg
Delano-by Cordula Schnuer Dhondup Wangchen spent six years in a Chinese prison for producing a film about Tibet in the run-up to the 2008 Olympics. He is now on a whistle-stop tour across Europe to call for a boycott of the upcoming Winter Games in Beijing. Wangchen remembers the day he read more →
Tibetan monk missing more than a year after arrest
Radio Free Asia-14 December 2021 Authorities have been silent about his whereabouts or a possible trial date. A Tibetan monk arrested more than a year ago in western China’s Sichuan province is being held incommunicado, with no word given by police to his family concerning his whereabouts or possible date read more →
Tibetan monk sentenced to five years for publishing writings of the Dalai Lama
-Free Tibet 20-year-old Trinley’s family was left uninformed for two months. In September 2021, Trinley, a Tibetan monk from Kirti Monastery in Ngaba County (Ch: Aba), was given a five-year prison sentence after being found guilty of publishing the teachings and writings of the Tibetan spiritual leader, His Holiness the read more →
U.S. lawmakers urge Biden to meet Dalai Lama
U.S. lawmakers across party lines on Tuesday urged President Joe Biden to meet with the Dalai Lama in a bid to ensure that Tibetans’ rights remain high on the agenda. Since George H.W. Bush in 1991, every sitting U.S. president has met the Tibetan spiritual leader except Donald Trump as read more →
Tibetan writer given 10-year prison term in secret trial
Radio Free Asia-Reported by Lhuboom Go Sherab Gyatso had written books and articles describing restrictions on Tibetans living under Chinese rule. A Chinese court in Tibet has given a 10-year prison term to a Tibetan writer and educator known for expressing loyalty to exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, with read more →
Tibetan students lock themselves to Olympic rings to protest Beijing games
-Reuters LAUSANNE, Dec 11- Two Tibetan students chained themselves to the Olympic rings outside the Swiss headquarters of the International Olympic Committee on Saturday to call for an international boycott of next year’s winter games. The pair were part of the latest protest against the 2022 Olympic Games over Beijing’s read more →
Tibetan President Penpa Tsering: Priority is to restart talks with China
The Week-By Namrata Biji Ahuja Penpa Tsering, sikyong (president) of the Dharamshala-based Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), has plans to expose the growing Chinese belligerence along the Indian border. The hawkish leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile has ordered his ministry of state security to prepare a report on the activities of read more →
China eyes bolstering mining across Tibet
Asia Times-by Dhondup Wangmo Before the invasion of Tibet by the People’s Republic of China (PRC), mining was rarely conducted in that region. Within the Tibetan cultural sphere, mining and ground disturbance are often said to remove “the bcud [nutrition or essence] of the earth, of which minerals are [a] primary form.” During the read more →