Marwa Rashadand Stephen Kalin| Reuters | 2 Aug 2019.
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has allowed adult women to travel without permission and granted them more control over family matters, further eroding a heavily criticized male guardianship system at a time of heightened scrutiny over its human rights record.
DHARAMSALA, 2 Aug: A young Chinese cartoonist has been arrested allegedly for insulting the state by the Chinese Communist Regime
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DHARAMSALA, 31 July: In yet another setback for China’s controversial Confucius Institute(CI), the University of Hawaii (UH) has severed its ties with the institute amidst greater scrutiny over Confucius Institutes across the world.
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DHARAMSALA, 30 July: His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Central Tibetan Administration have congratulated BS Yediyurappa as he took over as the new Chief Minister of Karnataka.
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DHARAMSALA, 30 July: A civil rights activist in China, widely referred to as the country’s ‘first cyber-dissident’ has been sentenced to 12 years in jail by the Chinese Communist Regime.
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Gray Sergeant| HKFP | 26 July 2019.
In his column for The Times of London last October, the writer Edward Lucas invited his readers to consider whether or not they lived in a free country. For Lucas, the answer to this multifaceted question came in the form of one simple test: do your politicians feel free to meet the Dalai Lama?
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DHARAMSALA, 26 July: Joseph Manchin, a senior Democratic United States Senator from West Virginia has questioned on the $83.7 billion investment in his home state pledged by China’s state-owned energy giant as the world grow wary of Chinese investment.
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DHARAMSALA, 26 July: China is said to be developing a dangerous national social credit system to track and grade every citizen that will violate privacy and expands the police state.
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DHARAMSALA, 25 July: His Holiness the Dalai Lama has congratulated United Kingdom’s new Prime Minister Boris Johnson and thanked the UK for its strong interest and support for Tibet.
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Claude Arpi | The Pioneer | 25 July 2019.
China has mastered the art of information warfare. We saw it during the Doklam episode. Though caught on the wrong foot on the ridge at the border of Sikkim and Bhutan, the Chinese spokespersons managed to convince many Indian scribes of the validity of a defunct 1890 Convention between the Manchus and British India. More recently, the Dalai Lama was the victim of Chinese propaganda. For the purpose, Beijing used some Indian journalists, “inviting” them to Tibet for a trip to “see the facts” for themselves.