By Ananth Krishnan/The Hindu Authorities are facing unusual criticism over mining projects BEIJING: Chinese authorities are facing unusual criticism over mining projects in Tibet from both Tibetan writers and a number of prominent Chinese public figures, in the wake of landslips on Friday that (...)
[The Korea Times] “It’s over for America,” a Chinese academic told me in late 2008, two days after Goldman Sachs turned itself into a commercial bank in order to fend off possible collapse. “From here on, it’s all downhill.” Sitting in Beijing as American capitalism seemed to be hanging by a thread, (...)
The tragic incident of landslide could be a result of the aggressive expansion and large-scale exploitation of mineral in the Gyama Valley On Friday, 30 March 2013, China’s official media reported that 83 miners including two Tibetans have been buried after a major landslide hit a part of the (...)
DHARAMSHALA: This year’s TB day, observed on 24 March, witnessed many interesting community wide initiatives of shared responsibility and collaborative participation in various Tibetan settlements to reduce the spread of TB. The Department of Health, Central Tibetan Administration and Delek (...)
[AFP] BEIJING: A huge landslide came crashing down a mountainside in Tibet on Friday, burying 83 workers in a gold mining area, Chinese state-run media said. A vast three-kilometre-long section of land, with a volume of two million cubic metres, slid down a slope and buried the workers’ camp (...)
By Allen Carlson / The Diplomat Beijing should give consideration to re-starting a process of engaging the Dalai Lama in dialogue, one that might even result in his return to Tibet. March 10th, the anniversary of the uprising that led to the Dalai Lama’s flight from Tibet in 1959, has come and (...)
By Ellen Nakashima/The Washington Post The trouble began even before the American filmmakers set foot in the Tibetan region of China. A member of their crew in India noticed that her laptop screen would flash occasionally — an unseen hand taking a screen shot of her computer. Her cursor would (...)
DHARAMSHALA: A Tibetan monk has died after setting himself on fire to protest against the Chinese rule in Luchu county in Kanlho (incorporated into China’s Gansu Province) in eastern Tibet, taking the total self-immolations to 114. Kunchok Tenzin, a 28-year-old monk of Mokhri monastery, set (...)
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[dalailama.com] Salugara, West Bengal, India, 27 March 2013 – After rain during the night and early morning, His Holiness decided to travel from Gangtok to Salugara by road instead of taking a helicopter. Before departing, he spoke to more than 65 members of the Gangtok Tibetan community at the (...)