DNA | January 15, 2015
Soon, a new monastery market will be inaugurated at Kashmere Gate metro station. The market which is under construction near Gate No. 1 of the station will provide job opportunities to around 150 people including Tibetans and people of trans-Himalayan regions.
Read moreTsering Woeser, China Change | January 14, 2015
Following the massacre of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, millions of people, including leaders from over 40 countries, went to the streets of Paris on January 11th to condemn terrorism and reiterate their determination to defend freedom of expression.
Read more[PTI] KOLKATA, Jan 13: Describing himself as a Marxist, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Tuesday said many Marxist leaders have now become capitalists in thinking.
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[ucanews.com] BEIJING, Jan 13: Repression in China has worsened since Xi Jinping became president in 2013, according to a report published by Freedom House on Tuesday, a sign that the Communist Party is struggling to maintain legitimacy and control despite China’s rise.
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DHARAMSALA, Jan 13: The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo whose editor and 11 other members were brutally massacred last week defied the attackers by putting a cartoon of Prophet Mohammed on the cover of its next publication.
Read more[TNN] DHARAMSHALA, Jan 11: Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) which concluded its 27th Task Force meeting on negotiation here this week, has hailed the stand of the US of urging the Chinese leadership to engage in direct and substantive discussion with the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama without any preconditions.
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Herald Scotland | January 8, 2015
An MSP has added his voice to growing concern about Scotland’s network of Confucius Institutes.
Conservative Alex Johnstone said he feared the language schools amounted to “infrastructure” to promote Beijing views on issues like occupied Tibet.
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DHARAMSALA, Jan 8: The US State Department on Jan 7 said it believes all people in the People’s Republic of China would benefit from the fruits of dialogue and urged the Chinese government to seize the opportunity to further engage with the Dalai Lama.
Read moreAkhilesh Pillalamarri, The Diplomat | January 8, 2015
China’s latest South Asian addition to the Silk Road: Nepal.
Read moreANS | January 7, 2015
A two-day meeting of the Tibetan task force on negotiations ended here Tuesday with a commitment for peaceful resolution of the Tibetan issue through dialogue with China.
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