Davos (Switzerland) (AFP) – Japan on Wednesday told the world it must stand up to an increasingly assertive China or risk a regional conflict with catastrophic economic consequences. In a landmark speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe issued what (...)
Brussels; Lithuanian MEP Mr. Leonidas Donskis organized an event in the European Parliament to screen Dhondup Wangchen’s documentary film ‘Leaving Fear Behind’ on 21 January. The screening was attended by MEPs, assistants to MEPs, Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Brussels, (...)
Tibet’s world outreach to counter China’s growing influence The Tibetan-government-in-exile is reaching out to the Chinese diaspora, as part of its campaign to keep the Tibet issue on the international agenda. Dicki Chhoyang, Minister of the Department of Information and International Relations, (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Kashag has finalised the budget proposals of all the departments and offices of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) for the financial year 2014-15. Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay and Finance Kalon Tsering Dhondup reviewed and finalised the budget proposals during a meeting held (...)
The Guardian, 21 January 2014 Relatives of political leaders including China’s current president and former premier named in trove of leaked documents from the British Virgin Islands By James Ball and Guardian US Interactive Team More than a dozen family members of China’s top political and (...)
[BBC] Xu Zhiyong, a prominent human rights lawyer who campaigned against corruption, has gone on trial in China. Mr Xu is charged with “gathering crowds to disrupt public order”. He is one of several activists from a transparency movement to be tried this week. Rights groups have criticised (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), a Tibetan rights group based in Dharamshala released it’s 2013 annual report yesterday, documenting the human rights situation inside Tibet and the forced resettlement of Tibetan nomads. The 2013 Annual Report, also focused (...)
The Swedish Organisation for Individual Relief, SOIM-IM, needs a permanent Co-ordinator for its SPARKE (Supporting Positive Alternatives in Raising Kindness in Education) Project. The position will be based at SOIR-IM’s Regional Office in Rajpur, Dehradun, Uttarakhand. (Read or download the full (...)
By Gideon Rachman The rest of the world is adjusting to an emerging political and security vacuum. The official theme for this year’s World Economic Forum is predictably bland – “Reshaping the World”. But the unofficial slogan will be “America is back”. Predictions that the US economy will grow by 3 (...)
Review by Amy Kazmin [Financial Times] In ‘Tibet’, Lezlee Brown Halper and Stefan Halper look behind a tragic past and uncertain future Tibet: An Unfinished Story’, by Lezlee Brown Halper and Stefan Halper, Hurst, RRP£20/$29.95 In a world where modern communications has stripped most of the romance (...)