PTI | June 27, 2017
WASHINGTON: A guided White House tour by President Donald Trump, a few laughs and a working dinner – the first for a foreign dignitary at the White House under the current administration – was how Prime Minister Narendra Modi rounded off his US visit.
Read moreChris Buckley and Austin Ramzy, The New York Times | June 26, 2017
BEIJING — Liu Xiaobo, the jailed Chinese dissident who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his writings promoting democracy, has been moved from prison to be treated for late-stage cancer, one of his lawyers said on Monday.
Read moreNew York – Chinese authorities are increasingly using opaque policy terms in official media to tighten repression in Tibet, Human Rights Watch said in an illustrated glossary released today.
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Washington, Jun 7 (PTI) The Pentagon has said that tension continues to exist along the disputed portions of India-China border even though the economic relationship between the two Asian giants have expanded in recent years.
Read morePTI | Washington | May 25, 2017
Sangay said the Tibetan government in exile discourages self-immolation and also noted that not a single Chinese person has been harmed by Tibetans.
Read moreLOBSANG SANGAY, The Hill | May 23, 2017
On his first foreign trip, President Trump has met with King Salman in Saudi Arabia, the home of Mecca and Medina, the holiest shrines of Islam. He met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel and visited the Western Wall, all that remains of the Jewish Temple Mount. And he then met with Pope Francis in the Vatican.
Read moreSutirtho Patranobis, Hindustan Times |May 17, 2017
Beijing – Local government officials from a Tibetan region of Sichuan province have had to undergo a polygraph or “lie detector” test to prove their loyalty to the Communist Party of China (CPC), a rights organisation has said.
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By Lobsang Tenchoe
DHARAMSALA, May 17: India and Japan, the two Asian giants having stayed away from China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), are now set to launch their own Asia-Africa connectivity project.
Read moreOutlook | May 16, 2017
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China today took strong exception to India’s stand on its Belt and Road initiative and asked New Delhi to explain what kind of “meaningful dialogue” it wants with Beijing on the multibillion-dollar venture.
Read more[PTI] ITANAGAR, April 23 – “Will naming Beijing as Mumbai make China’s capital an Indian territory,” asks the president of Arunachal Chamber of Commerce and Industries summing up the mood of locals on China renaming places in Arunachal Pradesh.
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