Ishaan Tharoor, The Washington Post | March 29, 2017
The Scottish Parliament has backed a second bid for secession from Britain, approving a motion that supports making a formal request to Westminster for the powers to hold a new referendum on independence.
Read moreSohil Sehran, Hindustan Times| March 29, 2017
NOIDA – The Noida office of a mobile phone company witnessed high drama on Tuesday after an employee of the company, a Chinese national, tore and threw an Indian flag in a dustbin.
Read moreAmit Dasgupta, Hindustan Times | March 23, 2017
I have long admired His Holiness the Dalai Lama. I continue to do so.
Read moreNDTV | Edited by Malini Chatterji | March 07, 2017
BEIJING: China’s Foreign Ministry called the Dalai Lama a “deceptive actor” on Tuesday, after the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader said in an interview that Chinese hardliners have parts of their brains missing.
Read moreAFP | March 1, 2017
BEIJING: ISIS terrorists from China’s Uighur ethnic minority have vowed to return home and “shed blood like rivers”, according to a terror-tracking firm, in what experts said marked the first ISIS threat against Chinese targets.
Read morePTI | 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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