DHARAMSALA, 16 Jan: China has called US Senator Marco Rubio’s criticism over its “blatant human rights violations” as an absurd and ill-intended attack.
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DHARAMSALA, 16 Jan; China needs to “face reality” and show Taiwan “respect” Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen has said just days after she was re-elected for a second term with a landslide victory in the country’s presidential election.
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DHARAMSALA, 14 Jan: Beijing’s rubberstamp legislature in Tibet has passed a law in its occupied Tibet that identified Tibetans as Chinese ethnic minorities while making ethnic unity mandatory.
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DHARAMSALA, 14 Jan: China has barred the global head of Human Rights Watch from entering Hong Kong, where he was scheduled to launch the organisation’s latest world report this week, the Guardian reported on Monday.
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A veteran China-watcher has said that the new ethnic identity law in Tibet is reflective of Beijing’s current insecurities in the region whose population they have so far failed to integrate into the mainstream Chinese identity, despite repeated claims from the Beijing leadership stating otherwise.
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DHARAMSALA, 13 Jan: His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Sunday congratulated Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen after she secured a second term in office following a landslide victory in the country’s election on Saturday.
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DHARAMSALA, 9 Jan: His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Wednesday extended condolences to the Prime Minister and the people of Australia over “the bush fires that have devastated so much of their beautiful country.”
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DHARAMSALA, 8 Jan: A short animation film created by the London-based advocacy group Free Tibet took home the best animated short film at International Film Festival for a Culture of Peace (FICCPaz).
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DHARAMSALA, 7 Jan: China’s Ministry of Education has banned its primary and junior high schools from using overseas textbooks in its latest move to expunge unapproved, foreign content from school textbooks.
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DHARAMSALA, 7 Jan: Chinese authorities have issued a stern directive to the parents of Tibetan children at a school in Lhasa, the Tibetan Capital forcing them to ban their children from taking part in religious activities over the winter holidays.
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