Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'Dalai Lama'
China's Money and Migrants Pour Into Tibet
By Edward Wong | The New York Times24 July 2010 They come by new high-altitude trains, four a day, cruising 1,200 miles past snow-capped mountains. And they come by military truck convoy, lumbering across the roof of the world. Han...
Tibetan environmentalist gets 5 years
By RADIO FREE ASIA4th of July 2010 A Tibetan environmentalist is sentenced on charges of "splittism" a week after his brother's trial. Award-winning Tibetan environmentalist Rinchen Samdrup, 44, was sentenced on Saturday to five years in prison on charges of...
Crackdown on Tibetan Ringtones
By Radio Free AsiaMay 21, 2010 Authorities in Tibet ban popular ringtones characterized as 'separatist.' Students and teachers at a high school near the Tibetan city of Shigatse have been told to delete certain popular Tibetan-language songs from their cell...
Monks Told To Go Home
By Radio Free Asia April 20, 2010 Chinese authorities tell monks aiding quake rescue efforts to leave. As China declared a day of mourning for the more than 2,000 people killed in an earthquake in western Qinghai province, authorities told...
Researchers Trace Data Theft to Intruders in China
By John Markoff and David Barboza | The New York TimesApril 05, 2010 Turning the tables on a China-based computer espionage gang, Canadian and United States computer security researchers have monitored a spying operation for the past eight months, observing...
Rift Grows as U.S. and China Seek Differing Goals
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesFebruary 20, 2010 When President Obama met with the Dalai Lama in the White House on Thursday, he was following a tradition that all recent American presidents had dutifully honored. Yet, to some...
Obama to Meet Dalai Lama Despite Chinese Warning
By REUTERS | The New York TimesFebruary 18, 2010 President Barack Obama will host the Dalai Lama at the White House on Thursday despite China's warning that the meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader could further damage strained ties....
Google's Threat Echoed Everywhere, Except China
By Andrew Jacobs, Miguel Helft and John Markoff | The New York TimesJanuary 13, 2010 Google's declaration that it would stop cooperating with Chinese Internet censorship and consider shutting down its operations in the country ricocheted around the world Wednesday....
Lawyers, Activists Denied Access
By Radio Free AsiaNovember 18, 2009 Chinese rights lawyers and petitioners were closely watched and prevented from meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama during his visit to Beijing. Rights lawyers and activists in Beijing during U.S. President Barack Obama's visit...
China Is Trying a Tibetan Filmmaker for Subversion
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York TimesOctober 31, 2009 A self-taught filmmaker who spent five months interviewing Tibetans about their hopes and frustrations living under Chinese rule is facing charges of state subversion after the footage was smuggled abroad...
China projecting Kashmir as a separate country?
MalaysiaNews(.net)October 19, 2009 Besides issuing separate visas to Indian passport holders from Jammu and Kashmir, an issue that has irked New Delhi, China is now showing the state as if it is an independent country.Visitors to Tibet, especially journalists invited...
New Curbs in Tibet
By Radio Free Asia28 September 2009 Tibetans face increased restrictions on prayer and travel ahead of a sensitive Chinese anniversary. As authorities prepare for sensitive anniversary celebrations across China, a growing security presence in the country's west is limiting the...
Harrison Ford Documentary, Dalai Lama Renaissance, Attacked by China's Communist Party
By PRWebJuly 29, 2009 China's Communist Party attacks "Dalai Lama Renaissance" (www.DalaiLamaFilm.com), a documentary film about the Dalai Lama narrated by Harrison Ford, after the film premieres in Taiwan and receives front page positive Taiwanese press. China's response likely an...
Media furore over Kadeer's tour
By BBC World NewsJuly 29, 2009 The visit of exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer to Japan has provoked a storm of criticism in China's press, with commentators warning that it will be seen as a hostile act towards Beijing. China...
China angry at Australia's Dalai Lama visit
By Sally Sara | ABC - Australian Broadcasting CorporationJuly 03, 2009 The Chinese Government has reacted angrily to an Australian parliamentary delegation's visit to meet Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in India. It is the first time a group...
Tibetan TV Dishes Pulled
By RADIO FREE ASIAJune 21, 2009 Tibetans cite a new government effort to control what news they hear. KATHMANDU--Chinese authorities have begun to remove satellite dishes in a Tibetan-populated region of China in an effort to block access to foreign...
Dalai Lama made citizen of Paris
BBC NewsJune 08, 2009 The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has been made an honorary citizen of the French capital, Paris. The mayor, Bertrand Delanoe, made the award in what French President Nicolas Sarkozy described as a municipal...
To Shut Off Tiananmen Talk, China Blocks Sites
By Michael Wines and Andrew Jacobs | THE NEW YORK TIMESJune 3, 2009 China's government censors have begun to block access to the Internet services Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail and Micarosoft's live.com, broadening an already extraordinary effort to shield its citizens...
China's Other Minority, Seen by One of Its Own
By Howard W. French | The New York Times (Books of the Times)April 23, 2009 It is the awkward fate of China, more than any other country, to be arriving late to any number of parties where most other revelers...
Tibet Protesters Are Held in China After Riot
By David Barboza | THE NEW YORK TIMESMarch 24, 2009 Nearly 100 people, most of them monks, were being held in a Tibetan area of northwestern China after a crowd attacked a police station there on Saturday, according to the...
The Dalai Lama's Speech
Editorial - The New York TimesMarch 11, 2009 The Dalai Lama is a man of peace and forbearance. So it is a measure of Tibet's suffering and growing desperation that he accused China's government on Tuesday of turning Tibet into...
Dalai Lama Harshly Condemns China Over Tibet
THE NEW YORK TIMESBy Edward Wong Jonathan Ansfield contributed reporting from Beijing, and Hari Kumar from New Delhi March 10, 2009 The Dalai Lama delivered on Tuesday one of his harshest attacks on the Chinese government in recent times, saying...
50 Years After Revolt, Clampdown on Tibetans
By Edward Wong | THE NEW YORK TIMESMarch 05, 2009 Enraged nomads stormed through this windswept town on the Tibetan plateau a year ago this month, raiding a police compound, setting fire to squad cars and forcing police officers to...
China blasts Sarkozy's Dalai Lama meeting as 'unwise'
By EUbusiness.comDecember 07, 2008 Chinese state media on Sunday blasted French President Nicolas Sarkozy's meeting with the Dalai Lama as an "unwise move" that has undermined relations with Beijing. Sarkozy, who currently holds the EU presidency, met the exiled Tibetan...
As Rome Burns, China Won't Talk
By John Pomfret | The Washington Post | NewsweekDecember 01, 2008 So the global economy is in meltdown, Europe and China are both facing the prospect of a seriously ugly downturn. They'd scheduled a summit for this week. You'd think...
China cancels summit with EU over Dalai Lama visit
By Steven Erlanger | INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNENovember 26, 2008 PARIS: China has postponed an annual summit with the European Union originally scheduled for next Monday, the Europeans said in a statement on Wednesday. The Chinese were evidently angered by a...
Tibetan Monks Still Held in Qinghai
By Radio Free Asia August 28, 2008 Months after widespread Tibetan protests against Chinese rule, hundreds of monks are detained in Qinghai. Hundreds of Tibetan monks detained after widespread protests against Chinese rule earlier this year were deported from the...
Olympic Torch's Tibet Visit Is Short and Political
By Jim Yardley | The New York Times22 June 2008 The visit of the Olympic torch to the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, came and went in about two hours on Saturday. Leaders of the ruling Communist Party probably exhaled once the...
Top US lawmaker meets Dalai Lama
By BBC News March 21, 2008 A top US lawmaker is holding talks with the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in the northern Indian hill town of Dharamsala. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi said China's crackdown...
China locks down restive regions
By BBC News March 21, 2007 Chinese authorities are continuing to tighten security following days of protests by Tibetans in the main city, Lhasa, and in surrounding provinces. In one town in Gansu, a BBC journalist saw rows of armed...
China denies Tibet tourists ordered out
By Channel NewsAsia March 17, 2008 China denied on Monday that foreigners had been ordered out of Tibet but advised against travel to the restive Himalayan region following a week of anti-Chinese violence. "We have not asked foreign companies in...
China Tells Foreigners Not To Travel To Tibet
By AFP | via nasdaq.com March 17, 2008 China on Monday urged foreigners not to travel to Tibet, with reports authorities were trying to seal off the Himalayan region amid a crackdown on anti-Chinese protests. "Because of the arson and...
Dalai Lama calls for international probe into Tibet crackdown
By The Associated Press | International Herald Tribune March 16, 2008 The Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama called Sunday for an international investigation into the crackdown against protesters in Tibet, which he said is facing a "cultural genocide." "Some...
PM talks with Dalai Lama signal unprecedented push
By Ashleigh Patterson | CTV.ca28 October 2007 Prime Minister Stephen Harper will host the first-ever formal meeting between a Canadian prime minister and the Dalai Lama -- a controversial move that could signal an unprecedented push for Tibetan autonomy. The...
Bush defies China in public meeting with Dalai Lama
By Stephen Collinson | AFP | via (uncensored) Yahoo! NewsOctober 18, 2007 President George W. Bush Wednesday called for an end to "religious repression" in China as he defiantly became the first US leader to appear in public with the...
China fumes over Dalai Lama visit
By Mark Magnier | Los Angeles TimesOctober 17, 2007 Beijing says Bush's meeting with the Tibetan will damage relations and calls on the U.S. to cancel plans to grant him a medal. China lashed out Tuesday at President Bush's White House...
Bush to Host Dalai Lama At White House
By REUTERS | The New York TimesOctober 11, 2007 U.S. President George W. Bush, risking Chinese anger, will host exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at the White House next week. Bush will welcome the Dalai Lama on Tuesday,...
China Labels Dalai Lama A Supporter Of "Cults"
By REUTERS | The New York TimesOctober 09, 2007 China, in its latest tirade against Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, on Tuesday accused the exiled Nobel peace prize laureate of supporting "evil cults" like Falun Gong and Japan's Aum...
George W Bush to meet Dalai Lama in public
By Richard Spencer | Telegraph.co.ukOctober 01, 2007 President George W Bush is to become the first American president to hold a public meeting with the Dalai Lama in a gesture of recognition for the religious leader of Tibetan Buddhism that...
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