PTI | February 17, 2017
BEIJING: A US university headed by an Indian-origin academician has rejected call by Chinese students to withdraw invitation to exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama but assured them that his speech would have nothing to with politics.
Read moreBy Hyunjoo Jin and Joyce Lee | February 17, 2017
SEOUL – Samsung Group chief Jay Y. Lee was arrested early on Friday over his alleged role in a corruption scandal rocking the highest levels of power in South Korea, dealing a fresh blow to the world’s biggest maker of smartphones and memory chips.
Read moreReport details use of torture by Chinese security agencies – including beatings, stress positions and sleep deprivation – to force activists to confess ‘crimes’
Benjamin Haas, The Gaurdian | February 16, 2017
Read moreThe New Indian Express | February 15, 2017
Despite all his rhetoric and bluster, US President Donald Trump was forced to publicly reiterate America’s ‘One China’ policy during his first phone conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping February 9. This followed howls of protests from Beijing after President-elect Trump took a call from Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen, and invited a delegation from the island nation to his swearing-in.
Read moreThe Asian Age | February 9, 2017
New Delhi: Hitting out at the “totalitarian” government in China for “immoral” curbs on free speech and the press, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Wednesday said people of the Communist nation will be able to tell right from wrong once they are aware of the “reality”. On radicalism, he also cautioned against stereotyping communities.
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February 6th 2017
[dalailama.com] New Delhi, India, 5 February 2017 – The streets of New Delhi were quiet this Sunday morning as His Holiness the Dalai Lama drove under misty skies to the Talkatora Stadium at the heart of the city, where Vidyaloke had arranged for him to give a public talk.
Read morePTI | Feb 4, 2017
BEIJING: Warning Trump administration of “endless trouble and burden” if it uses the Dalai Lama against it, China on Saturday sharply criticised the new US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson for his “amateurish” suggestion that he would encourage talks between Beijing and Dharmsala-based Tibetan government in exile.
Read moreBy N.S.Venkataraman
( January 31, 2017, Chennai, Sri Lanka Guardian) China has raised objections over the presence of Mr. Lobsang Sangay, Prime Minister of Tibetan government in exile, at a recent dinner hosted by the former US envoy to India in New Delhi.
Read more[AP] NEW DELHI, Jan 22: The Dalai Lama said he hopes that President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin
Read moreAs China ignores India’s security concerns, Modi embraces the Dalai Lama. HARSH V. PANT, The Wall Street Journal | Jan
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