[dalailama.com] Dharamsala, HP, India, 10 October 2015 – His Holiness the Dalai Lama congratulated this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winners, Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet.
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BBC | October 9, 2015
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet for helping the country’s transition to democracy.
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[Reuters] NEW YORK, Oct 7: U.S. authorities charged a former president of the United Nations General Assembly, a billionaire Macau real estate developer and four others on Tuesday for engaging in a wide-ranging corruption scheme.
Read more[REUTERS] GENEVA, Oct 6: In a cafe lounge at the United Nations complex in Geneva, a Tibetan fugitive was waiting his turn earlier this year to tell diplomats his story of being imprisoned and tortured back home in China.
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The Local | September 29, 2015
Copenhagen Police are under renewed scrutiny for suppressing demonstrations during a Chinese state visit in 2012 and will now face a formal enquiry.
Read moreTenzin Norgay, The Diplomat | September 30, 2015
Fifty years after the creation of the Tibet Autonomous Region, it is time for Tibet to have true autonomy.
Earlier this month, Beijing marked the fiftieth anniversary of establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region with a mass spectacle in Lhasa designed to showcase its powerful grip on Tibet.
Read moreBy Daniel Bosque, AFP | September 29
Barcelona – A court Tuesday summoned Catalonia’s president to face possible charges for holding a 2014 independence ballot, a move his allies branded politically motivated as they push to break away from Spain.
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AFP | Barcelona September 28, 2015
Separatists in Catalonia have claimed victory in a regional election that they have vowed will lead to them declaring the region independent from Spain.
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[Reuters] BEIJING, Sep 27: A former senior member of the exiled Tibetan government in India and one-time biographer for the Dalai Lama has returned to live in China, a Chinese government-run news website said.
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Alissa Greenberg, Time|September 27, 2015
Frustrated by the realities of Chinese sovereignty, some activists are proposing a dangerous and radical path for the politically divided city
Sai Yeung Choi Street in Hong Kong’s blue-collar Mong Kok neighborhood was a riot of color on the night of July 11 — in more ways than one.
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