Former Chinese political star Bo Xilai has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of corruption, accepting bribes and abuse of state power. The highly anticipated verdict of the man once tipped as future leader of China was handed down amid tight security at the Jinan (...)
[Financial Times]  By Jamil Anderlini  As the economy slows and middle-class discontent grows, it is the question that’s now being asked not only outside but inside the country. Even at the Central Party School there is talk of the unthinkable: the collapse of Chinese communism   Tucked away (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile today appointed Secretary for Religion and Culture, Mr Ngawang Choedak Choetri Tengpa, as the new Justice Commissioner of the Tibetan Supreme Justice Commission, Central Tibetan Administration. Mr Ngawang Choedak polled 21 votes against 16 for Mr (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Tibetan athletic team competing in the ongoing 12th national games in China’s Shenyang city has won one more gold medal. Shilok Dolma, who is 26, won gold in 63 kg catergory wrestling competition on 8 September. She became the first-ever athlete from the Tibet Autonomous Region (...)
Application invitation to Researchers and Visiting Fellows to the Tibet Policy Institute of the Central Tibetan Administration The Tibet Policy Institute is happy to invite researchers and visiting fellows to apply for limited post at the TPI under a project to groom the Tibetan researchers. (...)
[dalailama.com] Hanover, Germany, 20 September 2013 – The concluding engagement of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s current tour of Europe was a visit to the Vien Giac Vietnamese Temple in Hanover. On arrival he recognised several friends among the monks who came to receive him as he stepped out of (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The EU Special Representative for Human Rights, Mr Stavros Lambrinidis, who went to Tibet during an official visit to China from 9-18 September, noted worrying trends in key areas of human rights concern. Mr Lambrinidis’s five-day visit to Tibetan areas incorporated into China’s (...)
[Northamptonshire Telegraph] Corby is to forge links with a Tibetan community after the borough council agreed to adopt the remote village of Rigul. The move means the council has become the first in Britain to formally partner a community in Tibet and it is hoped other places in the UK will (...)
vendredi 20 septembre 2013 par jamphel — Flash News
DHARAMSHALA: A prominent international literary organisation has urged the Chinese government to allow Tibetans to preserve their own language and culture, which it said contains the important world heritage of Tibetan Buddhism. The PEN International, a worldwide association of writers founded (...)
[The Associated Press] SAN LEANDRO, California: The mayor of San Leandro has suspended the city’s plan to raise China’s flag to mark the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Mayor Stephen Cassidy said Thursday that the city doesn’t fly the flags of other nations at City Hall, and that a (...)