Reuters. March 22, 2021. Parliaments in Canada and the Netherlands drew rebukes from Beijing after they passed non-binding motions in February that said the treatment of China’s Uighur Muslim minority constituted genocide. “The most egregious, systematic abuse of human rights in the world is (...)
By Palden Sonam Taipei Times 20 March 2021 Once I watched a Chinese movie called The Flowers of War, which depicts the horrors of war atrocities in Nanjing when Imperial Japan occupied the Chinese city in 1937. In one of the most heart-rending scenes from the movie, a Chinese woman with her (...)
Tokyo: Representative Tsewang Gyalpo Arya of Liaison Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama was invited to the Japan Bunkajin Cultural Broadcast channel’s panel discussion on the Tibet issue on Saturday, 20 March. The panel comprised of Mr. Kato Kiyotaka, a political analyst as the Emcee; Mr (...)
Prem Shankar Jha for The Wire. China’s prompt withdrawal of its troops and armour from the eastern part of the grey zone around Pangong lake between the Indian and Chinese defined Lines of Actual Control has confirmed the hypothesis advanced in several previous columns on this platform, that its (...)
Geneva: Today, on International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, we appeal the UN including the UN Human Rights Council to address the systemic racism against Tibetans by the government of the People’s Republic of China. The death of 19-year-old Tibetan monk Tenzin Nyima is a (...)
Julia Hollingsworth CNN 20 March 2021 Hong Kong (CNN) — China is making it easier for foreigners to enter the country. But there’s one condition: they need to have received a China-made Covid-19 vaccine. At least 23 Chinese embassies around the world issued new visa policies over the past week (...)
Dharamshala: The Election Commission of the Central Tibetan Administration today declared the list of final candidates for the 2021 general election of Sikyong of the 16th Kashag and members of the 17th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, thus formally announcing the electoral process for the final (...)
Dharamshala: A Tibetan nomad has been sentenced to one year in prison on charges of “inciting separatism” and “endangering national security” by the Golog Prefecture Intermediate Court in Tibet’s traditional Amdo province. According to a report by a Chinese website Rights Defender, Tashi Gyal was (...)
Dharamsala: Chaired by the Deputy Speaker Ven. Acharya Yeshi Phuntsok, the sixth day of the tenth session of the 16th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile began with deliberations on the proposed 2021-2022 proposed Surkyol budget of Social and Resource Development Fund (SARD) from the previous days, (...)
Yashwant Raj, Hindustan Times. March 20, 2021. Blinken warned the Chinese against betting against the US and Sullivan chided them for their lack of confidence in dealing with criticism. The United States and China are “fundamentally at odds”, American Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday (...)