Chinese leader held back by hardliners over Tibet: Dalai Lama Economic Times The Dalai Lama has previously expressed optimism about the current administration in Beijing, in what some see as a possible easing of tensions with China, which has accused him of seeking secession for Tibet. He has always retorted that he purely ... |
Chinese leader held back by hardliners over Tibet: Dalai Lama Zee News Describing Xi Jinping as a "realist", the Tibetan spiritual leader told France 24 television in an interview that the Chinese leader "appreciates Buddhists". "Some of his close friends also say he is more realistic thinking," he said in response to a ... |
AsiaOne | Dalai Lama says China hardliners hold back President Xi on Tibet autonomy AsiaOne Hardliners in the Chinese government are holding back President Xi Jinping from granting genuine autonomy to Tibet, the Himalayan region's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, told a French broadcaster. Beijing accuses the Dalai Lama of being a ... |
Bangladesh News 24 hours | `China hardliners hold back Xi on Tibet autonomy' Bangladesh News 24 hours Hardliners in the Chinese government are holding back President Xi Jinping from granting genuine autonomy to Tibet, the Himalayan region's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, told a French broadcaster. |
Newly discovered canyon poses questions for Tibet Geographical 'When I first saw the data, I said, “Wow!” It was amazing to see that the river once cut quite deeply into the Tibetan Plateau because it does not today,' said Jean-Philippe Avouac, Earle C. Anthony professor of geology at Caltech. 'That was a big ... |
Jaunted | Travel Movie Tuesday: 'Seven Years in Tibet' and Perception Jaunted From Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck falling in love in Rome to Julia Roberts circling the globe to find herself, film has played an important role in shaping both the golden years and current day of travel. Thus, we present our newest series, Travel ... |
Bringing Tibet Home review – earth moves in lumpen documentary The Guardian This lumpen, conventional documentary charts how US-based Tenzing Rigdol, an ethnically Tibetan artist and poet born in Nepal to exiled parents, set out to create a massive installation piece in Dharamsala, India, made from 20,000kg of soil smuggled ... |
Little White Lies | Bringing Tibet Home * Little White Lies Tibetan soil is the big score in this espionage-tinted documentary about a giant political art installation. Imagine an espionage thriller in which the criminal ringleader is an artist and his desired haul is 20,000 kilogrammes of soil. The soil in ... |
Tibet Post International | SFT Taiwan to hold Free Tibet writing contest to increase awareness Tibet Post International Free-Tibet-Writing-Contest-2014 Dharamshala: - Announcing the first Free Tibet writing contest, the Tapei based SFT Taiwan said Tibet's independence has been a highly controversial issue internationally, yet frequent cases of self-immolation used to ... |
Author of “The Struggle for Modern Tibet' dies at 85 Phayul At age of 10, Tibetan government selected Tsering to join the Dalai Lama's ceremonial dance troupe (Gadrugba) in Lhasa against the will of his family. Despite being born to a peasant family, an illiterate Tsering was very keen to study and in 1954, he ... |
Illegal collieries closed on Qinghai-Tibet plateau Shanghai Daily (subscription) 8 (Xinhua) -- China has closed 200 illegal coal mines this year to protect the eco-system of the northwestern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. "On one hand, the safety of the miners was poorly protected in the illegal mines, and on the other hand the move ... |
Freemuse | Tibet/China: Folk singer sentenced to two and a half years in prison Freemuse As Rigzin and Yarphel are two artists peacefully exercising their human right to freedom of expression and contributing to the cultural heritage of Tibet, there can be no legitimate grounds for such sentencing and fines,” said Tsering Tsomo, executive ... |
China Focus: Green drive heroes on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Shanghai Daily (subscription) Tashi Sangye was sent to the Palyul Monastery's subsidiary temple in Jigzhi County at the age of 13 by his impoverished parents. Now as a Khenpo, a spiritual degree given in Tibetan Buddhism, he has achieved a high social status among local herdsmen. |
Tibet to launch air quality index from 2015 CCTV By the end of November, 18 automatic air monitoring stations were set up in 7 prefecture-level regions in Tibet. Their real-time data collection has been connected to the national environmental monitoring network, Jambai, head of the regional ... |
'Miss Tibet: Beauty in Exile': DOC NYC Review Hollywood Reporter There are beauty pageants of all stripes, but few are as memorably exotic as the one depicted in Norah Shapiro's documentary chronicling the decade-old competition featuring Tibetan exiles. Run by a colorfully shady impresario who deserves a film of ... |
Tibet Post International | A popular singer in Tibet jailed for four years for political songs Tibet Post International 'Kalsang Yarphel is 39 years old and was sentenced to four years in prison after taking part in concerts encouraging Tibetans speak their language and calling for unity among Tibetans in Tibet,' told Tibet Post International (TPI) on Sunday, citing ... |
China jails Tibet singer for political lyrics The Asian Age China has sentenced a popular Tibetan singer to four years in prison for calling on Tibetans to unify and speak their language, reports said, highlighting tight cultural controls in the region. Kalsang Yarphel, 39, was convicted by a court in the south ... |
Tibet core to Sino-Indian ties The Japan Times Beijing says Tibet is a core issue for China. In truth, Tibet is the core issue in Beijing's relations with countries like India, Nepal and Bhutan that traditionally did not have a common border with China. These countries became China's neighbors ... |
India Today | Auto Bild India GLA in Tibet: A glimpse of the heavens India Today In Tibet there are no speed cameras but something much worse, police checkposts. To ensure that the speed limit is followed, you are given a time sheet of sorts at a check point and it contains the time before which you cannot reach the next checkpoint ... |
Tibetan Bazaar is the un-Black Friday, selling exotic wares amid peace Philly.com The Tibetan Bazaar is the un-Black Friday, a place to shop for unique silverwork and textiles, to savor salty butter tea and inhale the steamy scent of traditional dumplings, known as momos, to trade the blare of canned holiday music for the hum of ... |
Learn about Tibet when monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery visit ... Macon Telegraph (blog) The five-day long residency, called “Mystical Arts of Tibet,” is sponsored by Town and Gown Arts, a partnership between Milledgeville Allied Arts and Georgia College's Arts Unlimited Committee. The monks' visit attracted thousands to Milledgeville ... |
Tibet Post International | Not a degree of freedom for Tibetans in Tibet: Top US diplomat Tibet Post International The US Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues, Sarah Sewall, who is also Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights talked of her assessment of human rights conditions in Tibet during an interaction with reporters at ... |
Tibet Post International | Tibet: News International Not a degree of freedom for Tibetans in Tibet: Top ... Tibet Post International The US Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues, Sarah Sewall, who is also Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights talked of her assessment of human rights conditions in Tibet during an interaction with reporters at ... |
Tibetan Groups Ask UN Envoy to Scrutinize Rights Charges Against Beijing Radio Free Asia New U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein should look closely at charges of blatant rights abuses and environmental concerns in Tibet if allowed by Beijing to visit the region, a group of 20 Tibetan writers, educators, and ... |
Tibet Post International | Monk arrested after staging lone protest in Sershul County in Tibet Tibet Post International Tibet-Sershul-Sonam-Yarphel-2014 Dharamshala: - Chinese police authorities detained a Tibetan monk in Sershul County, Kham Province of eastern Tibet for staging a lone protest by raising slogans calling for "freedom in Tibet" and "long live His ... |
The Sag Harbor Express | Norah Shapiro and Tenzin Khecheo Find Real Beauty in “Miss Tibet” The Sag Harbor Express Miss Tibet: Beauty in Exile fits my category Movies That Should Play in Sag Harbor. I expect it to play at various festivals, but the enthusiastic reception it had at a recent sold-out screening at Doc NYC festival indicates that a smart distributor ... |
Canada-China ties worry Tibetan Prime Minister Sangay The Globe and Mail The leader of Tibet's exiled administration says he is concerned Canada's push to boost economic ties with China could lead to investments that don't respect Tibetan culture or spirituality. Lobsang Sangay, Prime Minister of the Central Tibetan ... |
AsiaOne | Surgery enables 5 Tibet children to walk normally AsiaOne Five-year-old Tsering Wangmo has her hair combed by her mother at a ward in Capital Institute of Pediatrics in Beijing on Friday. The girl is one of five children with dislocated hips, all from the Tibet autonomous region, who are having surgery at the ... |
Daily Mail | China defends Tibet dam project and promises 'close communication' with India Daily Mail On Sunday, China put into operation the first section of its 510 MW hydropower project at Zangmu, in Tibet - its first major dam on the middle reaches of the Brahmaputra, or Yarlung Zangbo as it is known in China. China last year also gave the go-ahead ... |
Construction projects aim to improve road safety of Sichuan-Tibet Highway CCTV The Sichuan-Tibet Highway is known as a road full of stunning vistas, winding through 21 mountains and crossing14 major rivers. But these same natural wonders can make it a risky journey for travelers. CCTV News is going to introduce the highway for ... |
Firstpost | China defends damming Brahmaputra river in Tibet, calls it run-of-the-river Firstpost Beijing: Defending its plans to build a series of hydropower projects over Brahmaputra river in Tibet, China today said it has taken "full account" of concerns of downstream countries as well as the "bigger picture" of good relationship with India ... |
Discovery News | Ancient Canyon Discovered Under a River in Tibet Discovery News We think of canyons as being carved by rivers, as the Colorado River did with the Grand Canyon, so this item is a little mind-boggling. In a just-published article in the journal Science, researchers from the California Institute of Technology have ... |
i24news | China begins operating mega-dam in Tibet i24news China has begun generating electricity from Tibet's biggest ever hydropower project, state-run media reported, the latest dam development on Himalayan rivers that has prompted concern in neighboring India. The first generating unit of the 9.6 billion ... |
