Top Chinese General Receives Life Sentence for Corruption
Nash Jenkins, TIME | July 26, 2016
Guo’s conviction is the latest in a sweeping anti-corruption campaign in China spearheaded by President Xi Jinping
Read moreNash Jenkins, TIME | July 26, 2016
Guo’s conviction is the latest in a sweeping anti-corruption campaign in China spearheaded by President Xi Jinping
Read moreBBC | July 22, 2016
Campaign groups say China has started demolishing buildings at Larung Gar, one of the largest centres of Buddhist learning in Tibet.
Read moreBBC | July 21, 2016
A court in Hong Kong has found student activist Joshua Wong guilty of taking part in an unlawful assembly.
Read more[AP] BEIJING, July 17 — Authorities in Tibet say nine people were killed in an avalanche in the Himalayan region’s far west.
Read moreBen Blanchard and Martin Perry Reuters | July 13, 2016
BEIJING/MANILA – China vowed to take all necessary measures to protect its sovereignty in the South China Sea and said it had the right to set up an air defense zone, after rejecting an international tribunal’s ruling that denied its claims in the region.
Read more(dalailama.com) Palden Drepung, Mundgod, Karnataka, India, 3 July 2016 – His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote this morning to Mrs Marion Wiesel to tell her how saddened he was to learn that her husband, Elie Wiesel, had passed away in New York.
Read morePTI | Jun 27, 2016
BEIJING – China claims the border dispute is confined to 2,000 kilometres, mainly Arunachal in eastern sector which it claims as part of south Tibet.
Read moreSutirtho Patranobis, Hindustan Times | June 27, 2016
Singer Lady Gaga has possibly blown her chance to perform in China.
BEIJING – Hours after she interacted with Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at a conference at Indianapolis in the US, China on Monday used strong language to condemn the meeting.
Read moreBBC | June 15, 2016
The son and wife of imprisoned former Chinese security chief Zhou Yongkang have been jailed after they were found guilty of corruption, officials say.
Read moreReuters | June 14, 2016
China warned the United States on Tuesday to stick by its promises not to support any separatist activities, ahead of a U.S. visit by Taiwan’s new president and a possible meeting between the Dalai Lama and U.S. President Barack Obama.
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