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China faces UN Criticism in North Korea’s Crime Against Humanity Probe

mardi 18 février 2014 par jamphel — News From Other Sites

[VOA] China Rejects UN Criticism in North Korea Rights Probe China is rejecting the charge of a U.N. human rights inquiry that suggested Beijing was aiding and abetting crimes against humanity by returning defectors to its ally, North Korea. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said (...)

Former Taiwan VP meets China’s president

mardi 18 février 2014 par jamphel — News From Other Sites

[Sky News] A former vice-president of Taiwan has met China’s top leader in the latest high-level encounter between the two sides amid steadily closer relations. Lien Chan, also an honorary chairman of Taiwan’s ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party, met President Xi Jinping at the Diaoyutai State (...)

China media: Modernising the system

mardi 18 février 2014 par jamphel — News From Other Sites

[BBC] Modernising the system of governance, a potential meeting between the leaders of China and Taiwan, and anti-mainland protests in Hong Kong make headlines on Tuesday. Papers give prominent coverage to President Xi Jinping’s remarks that officials must modernise government and rule in a (...)

DIIR Secretary Speaks to Jewish Students on Tibet Issue

mardi 18 février 2014 par jamphel — Flash News

DHARAMSHALA: Secretary Tashi Phuntsok of the Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR), Central Tibetan Administration, today met with a group of 51 students from North America. The students, comprising mostly of Jewish descendants, are on a month-long visit to Dharamshala as (...)

Reputation Matters: Unpacking the Microsoft China Censorship Scandal

mardi 18 février 2014 par jamphel — News From Other Sites

[The Wall Street Journal] By Jason Q. Ng Controversy this week over alleged China-related censorship on the international version of Bing.com, the search engine operated by Microsoft has cast an important spotlight on the ways in which censorship can bleed over into supposedly free regions of the (...)

Badiucao: (巴丢草): How the Great Firewall Works

mardi 18 février 2014 par jamphel — Badiucao, Internet censorship, Great Firewall

[China Digital Times] In this cartoon, Badiucao demonstrates how Internet censorship works in China, by showing the restraints imposed on netizens by the Great Firewall as they surf the Web.

A Great Chinese Contraction in Tibet?

mardi 18 février 2014 par jamphel — News From Other Sites

By Claude Arpi [claudearpi.blogspot.in] A remarkable historical document appears in the latest book of Melvyn Goldstein’s History of Modern Tibet(Volume 3).On May 14, 1957, the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee decided to downsize the Chinese presence in Tibet and postpone the (...)

Live Webcasts: His Holiness in Washington, DC and San Francisco Bay Area

mardi 18 février 2014 par jamphel — Featured Flash News, Flash News

[source: dalailama.com] There will be live webcasts of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s talks and discussions from Washington, DC; Berkeley, California; and Santa Clara, California on February 20-24, 2014. Times in Washington, DC are Eastern Standard Time (EST = GMT-5.00); times in California are (...)

Tibetans launch campaign against junk food in Rebgong

mardi 18 février 2014 par jamphel — Flash News

DHARAMSHALA: Tibetans in Rebgong in Malho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in northeastern Tibet (incorporated into China’s Qinghai Province) have launched a new campaign: “War against junk food”. According to reports coming out of the region, Tibetans living in Gomar village in Rebkong say the local (...)

(Updated) Home Department Announces Skill Training for Youths

mardi 18 février 2014 par jamphel — Flash News

DHARAMSHALA: The Youth Empowerment Support division of the Department of Home of the Central Tibetan Administration today announced the first phase of this year’s vocational training for Tibetan youths at the Institute for Small Trade Learning (ISTL) Nelamangala in Bangalore. The courses for the (...)