Andrew Browne, The Wall Street Journal | May 26, 2015
Fear of foreign infiltration behind a draft law that turns civic groups into security risks
SHANGHAI—It takes a special kind of courage to run a foreign nonprofit in China these days.
Read moreBy Ajaj Ashraf, Scroll.in | May 23, 2015
Dr Lobsang Sangay talks about Beijing’s repression of Tibet and Modi’s recent visit to China.
Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile Dr Lobsang Sangay was educated at Delhi University and Harvard Law School. In an email interview, he speaks of how discussions about Tibet were absent in the media coverage of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to China and Beijing’s policy of repression.
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DHARAMSALA, May 25: Tibetan Entrepreneurship Development (TED), an initiative of the Department of Finance of Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), in partnership with the Dalai Lama Foundation in Canada today launched ‘Sikyong Entrepreneur of the Year Award’ and ‘Investment Award for Up and Coming Entrepreneurs’ at a press conference held here in Dharamsala to encourage and inspire Tibetan entrepreneurs to contribute to the overall socio-economic health of the Tibetan community.
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DHARAMSALA, May 22: Tibetans and their supporters in Dharamsala carried out a candle light vigil on May 21 evening to
Read more[PTI] BEIJING, May 20: India will soon be opening a new Consulate in China’s Chengdu city, capital of Sichuan province but Tibet, which borders it will not come under its purview.
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DHARAMSALA, May 21: A Tibetan father of four has set himself on fire in eastern Tibet on May 20 to protest against ‘excesses’ by Chinese security forces that have been deployed in unusually large numbers in his hometown.
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DHARAMSALA, May 20: A popular Tibetan singer from Driru county in traditional Kham province’s Nagchu prefecture (now incorporated into Tibet Autonomous Region) has been sentenced to three and half years jail term.
Read moreClaude Arpi, Niti Central | May 18, 2015
A few months ago, a European diplomat confidentially told me, ‘in fact, the job of Modi is just to undo the knots in which the UPA tied up India in the past’. He was probably thinking of the complex Defence Procurement Policy (DPP) put in place by A.K. Antony, the UPA’s Defence Minister, who made the DPP so complicated that it became impossible for India to arm itself or even ‘make arms in India.’
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DHARAMSALA, May 19: A Tibetan Buddhist monk of Nyitso monastery in Tawu County in eastern Tibet was arrested by Chinese police on May 18.
Read more[The Tribune] DHARAMSALA, May 18: Tibetans and their supporters today observed the International Solidarity Day to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Panchen Lama going missing from Tibet.
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