Apollo Chen urges Ma to give Dalai Lama another visa
Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter, Taipei Times | Mar 1, 2016
The lawmaker said the refusal to allow the Buddhist leader to visit has hurt the nation’s religious and cultural development
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Taiwan urges Tibetan exile leader and Uighur activist to stay away, supporters say
By Ralph Jenning, Los Angeles Times | February 19, 2016
Taiwanese authorities asked a close ally of the Dalai Lama, as well as a U.S.-based activist for China’s Uighur minority, not to attend a forum on religious freedom in Taipei
Read moreDalai Lama, US secretary of state greet people on Losar
[IANS] Dharamsala, Feb 10: The Dalai Lama and US Secretary of State John Kerry have extended greetings on Losar, the Tibetan New Year, a statement from the Tibetan government-in-exile said here on Wednesday.
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Highly prized ‘caterpillar fungus’ declared a danger to health by China’s food and drug administration
Alice Yan, South China Morning Post |February 5, 2016
Products derived from rare ingredient from Tibet found to contain up to 10 times the national limit of arsenic, officials say
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Suu Kyi’s Parliament of Prisoners Takes Power in Burma
The Daily Telegraph | February 1, 2016
NAYPYIDAW: Such a scene would have been unthinkable during the dark days of military rule in Burma.
Read moreSuspected Chinese hackers target minorities, Russian gov’t
Cory Bennett, The Hill | January 26, 2016
A hacking group dubbed “Scarlet Mimic” with potential links to the Chinese government is targeting minority rights activists, as well as Russian and Indian government institutions.
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China’s anti-graft body investigates statistics bureau chief
BEIJING, Jan 27: The head of the bureau that gathers China’s economic data is under investigation by the anti-graft agency in a possible expansion of an anticorruption campaign that has shaken state companies and securities firms.
Read moreIndia to build satellite tracking station in Vietnam that offers eye on China
Sanjeev Miglani and Greg Torode, Reuters |January 25, 2016
NEW DELHI, India/HONG IONG – India will set up a satellite tracking and imaging centre in southern Vietnam that will give Hanoi access to pictures from Indian earth observation satellites that cover the region, including China
Read moreFor U.S., Taiwan Vote Changes Calculus Over ‘One China’
By Andrew Browne, The Wall Street Journal | January 19, 2016
TAIPEI—No dogma is more important to Beijing than “One China,” the concept that Taiwan is a part of a single Chinese nation—just temporarily estranged.
After vote, China tells Taiwan to abandon independence ‘hallucination’
BY JAMES POMFRET, MATTHEW MILLER AND BEN BLANCHARD, Reuters, 17 January 2016
TAIPEI/BEIJING – Taiwan should abandon its “hallucinations” about pushing for independence,
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