[Reuters] New Delhi, July 15: Chinese President Xi Jinping invited India on Tuesday to attend a summit of the APEC trade group in November, sending a message of cooperation during the first meeting between the new leaders of the world’s most populous countries.
Read more[Source: TCHRD] A senior Tibetan monk who is an accomplished Buddhist scholar was arbitrarily arrested and disappeared in May 2014 while he was giving a lecture on the “status of Tibetan language and nationality” (Tib. mi rigs dang skad yig ki gnas bab skor) to villagers of Shagchu (Ch: Xiaqu) Town[i] in the restive Diru (Ch: Biru) County in Nagchu (Ch: Naqu) Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), in the traditional Tibetan province of Kham.
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[The Washington Post] RIO DE JANEIRO, July 13: Mario Goetze’s sensational goal in the 113th minute Sunday had shattered a scoreless tie with Argentina, and now as extra time was nearing the end, the roar from Germany’s supporters at Maracanã stadium swelled to ear-popping levels.
Read more[The New York Times] KATMANDU, JULY 13: Under scrutiny from China, Nepal’s government announced on Sunday that it had retracted its permission to allow the cremation of a prominent spiritual figure in Tibetan Buddhism to be held on its territory.
Read moreLeh, Ladakh, J&K, India, 10 July 2014 – His Holiness the Dalai Lama went to the teaching pavilion early in the morning today and spent four hours performing the self-generation rituals. When he returned from lunch, in the heat of the day, an estimated 144,000 people had gathered to take part in the preparatory procedures for the Kalachakra Empowerment.
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[dalailama.com] Leh, Ladakh, J&K, India, 9 July 2014: Today saw the culmination of activities that began a week ago as the preparatory prayers and rituals for the 33rd Kalachakra Empowerment came to a conclusion. The sand mandala was completed yesterday and this morning His Holiness
Read moreBy Tania Branigan, The Guardian|July 7, 2014
Elliot Sperling believes his support for Uighur academic Ilham Tohti is reason authorities ordered him to return to US
Read more[AFP] LEH, July 6: The Dalai Lama on Sunday reiterated his plea to Buddhists in Myanmar and Sri Lanka to halt violence against Muslims, in a speech to tens of thousands of devotees to mark his 79th birthday.
Read more[IANS] NEW DELHI, July 3: Experts Thursday urged the central government to revise its Tibet policy and put pressure on China to resolve the Tibetan conflict by satisfying people of the contested territory.
Read more[The Hindu] BEIJING, July 1: China has for the first time formally agreed to allow Indian hydrological experts to conduct study tours in Tibet to monitor the flows on the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra, according to a new agreement signed here on Monday during the visit of Vice-President Hamid Ansari.
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