Beyond the Dalai Lama: An Interview with Woeser and Wang Lixiong
Ian Johnson, The New York Review of Books| August 7, 2014 In recent months, China has been beset by growing
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Terror fear? China city bans beards, veils in buses
[TNN] BEIJING, Aug 7: In perhaps first such instance in China, a city in the country’s restive Xinjiang region has banned beards and burka or veils worn by Muslim women within days of a major terrorist attack and subsequent police action that killed nearly 100 people in the bordering Kashgar area of the same province.
Read moreEight Tibetans sentenced up to 9 years’ imprisonment
DHARAMSALA, Aug 7: Chinese authorities in eastern Tibet have sentenced eight Tibetans up to 9 years of imprisonment over their alleged involvement in the explosion of a police station in 2012, reports Tibet.net, the exile Tibetan administration’s official website.
Read moreTibetan group seeks release of ‘abetting’ accused
[TNN] SHIMLA, Aug 6: International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), a Tibet advocacy group based in the US, has released a special report titled “Acts of significant evil: The criminalisation of Tibetan self-immolations,” documenting the wave of self-immolations in Tibet and the intensified response of the Chinese government.
Read moreVisit to Dalai Lama’s abode is tourists’ nightmare
Vishal Gulati, IANS|August 5, 2014
MCLEOD GANJ: The road to Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama’s abode passes through hell. Foreigners and domestic tourists coming to this north Indian hill town, in the state of Himachal Pradesh, for an audience with the Nobel Peace Prize laureate find the road disappearing under the wheels of the vehicle they are travelling in.
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At least 398 people dead as 6.5 magnitude quake hits China
DHARAMSALA, Aug 5: At least 398 people have been killed and more than 1800 injured after a powerful earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale jolted south-west China’s Yunnan province.
Read moreIt’s in Chinese interest to give Tibetans more autonomy: Lobsang Sangay (IANS Interview)
Vishal Gulati, IANS|August 4, 2014
DHARAMSALA, Aug 4: Tibetan Prime Minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay says the people in Tibet will be happy if they are given more autonomy by China “within the Chinese constitution”.
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Tibetan activists perform street play calling for Rongye Adak’s release
DHARAMSALA, Aug 2: A Tibetan organization known for its unique style of activism performed a street play on Aug 1, recalling the turn of events that led to a Tibetan nomad’s imprisonment for eight years for openly expressing the wishes and aspirations of the Tibetan people at a horse racing festival in Lithang in former Kham province of traditional Tibet.
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Gas blast in Taiwan kills 25, injures 267, topples buildings
[Reuters] KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan, Aug 1: A series of explosions caused by a gas leak killed 25 people and injured 267 in Taiwan’s second city on Friday, sending flames shooting 15 storeys into the air, setting ablaze entire blocks and reducing small shops to rubble.
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Tibetan Buddhist monk cremated in Nepal without demonstrations
[PTI] KATHMANDU, July 31: Thousands of Tibetan exiles today offered prayers during the cremation ceremony of a revered Buddhist monk, days after Nepal denied permission to let his remains brought into the country fearing anti-China protests.
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