[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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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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The Daily Telegraph | February 1, 2016
NAYPYIDAW: Such a scene would have been unthinkable during the dark days of military rule in Burma.
Read moreCory 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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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 moreSanjeev 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 moreBy 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.
BY JAMES POMFRET, MATTHEW MILLER AND BEN BLANCHARD, Reuters, 17 January 2016
TAIPEI/BEIJING – Taiwan should abandon its “hallucinations” about pushing for independence,
Read more[dalailama.com] DHARAMSALA, Jan 8: His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote to Ms Mehbooba Mufti yesterday to express his sadness on hearing the news that her father, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had passed away in New Delhi.
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In honour of the Dalai Lama’s 80th birthday, New Delhi has hosted a celebration on 4 January to mark the life and accomplishments of the spiritual leader. Despite the Dalai Lama’s milestone birthday having passed in July 2014, his busy schedule has meant that a celebration in India was unable to take place until now.
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