Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'Tibet'
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...
China starts trial against Tibet environmentalist
By Christopher Bodeen - The Associated Press via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News (Canada)June 22, 2010 A Tibetan environmentalist once praised by Chinese state media as a model philanthropist went on trial Tuesday in western China on what supporters say are politically...
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...
Mine Sparks Anger in Qinghai
By Radio Free Asia07 May 2010 Tibetans say mining at a sacred site prompted a major earthquake. Tibetan herders in the remote western Chinese province of Qinghai have hit out at a mining company after it sank deep shafts into...
Chinese Military Seeks to Extend Its Naval Power
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesApril 26, 2010 The Chinese military is seeking to project naval power well beyond the Chinese coast, from the oil ports of the Middle East to the shipping lanes of the Pacific, where...
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...
China's Censors Tackle and Trip Over the Internet
Michael Wines, Sharon LaFraniere and Jonathan Ansfield | The New York TimesApril 07, 2010 Type the Chinese characters for "carrot" into Google's search engine here in mainland China, and you will be rewarded not with a list of Internet links,...
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...
The Dark Side of China Aid
By CHRISTOPHER WALKER and SARAH COOK | The New York Times (Christopher Walker is director of studies and Sarah Cook is an Asia researcher at Freedom House)March 25, 2010 A growing number of developing countries receive billions of dollars a...
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....
China Jails Tibetan Filmmaker
By Radio Free AsiaJanuary 06, 2010 The documentary 'Leaving Fear Behind' gets its producer a six-year prison term. Authorities in the northwestern Chinese province of Qinghai have handed a six-year jail sentence to a Tibetan filmmaker who returned from exile...
Christians Held in Shanghai
By Radio Free AsiaNovember 30, 2009 A pastor at an unofficial Protestant church banned from holding indoor meetings by authorities in Shanghai said she would seek compensation for mistreatment by police, as hundreds of the church's followers held an open-air...
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...
China protests PM's visit to Arunachal; India disappointed
Indo-Asian News Service | Hindustan TimesOctober 13, 2009 India expressed disappointment over China's protest against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Arunachal Pradesh, whose ownership is disputed by Beijing. "We express our disappointment and concern over the statement made by...
China's Export of Censorship
By Christopher Walker and Sarah Cook | Far Eastern Economic ReviewOctober 12, 2009 The Chinese government's effort to prevent dissident authors from taking part in the prestigious Frankfurt Book Fair, an international showcase for freedom of expression, has offered Germany...
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...
China Bans Foreign Tourists From Tibet
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The New York TimesSeptember 22, 2009 China has banned foreign tourists from traveling to Tibet ahead of a parade in the capital to mark 60 years of Communist rule, an official said Tuesday, amid stepped-up...
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...
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...
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...
1.9 lakh killed in China's nuclear tests ***
*** lakh is a unit in the Indian measuring system 1.9 lakh = 190,000 Thus title means 190,000 killed in China's nuclear testsThe Times of India - April 19, 2009 The nuclear test grounds in the wastes of the Gobi...
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...
China Terrorizes Tibet
The New York Times EditorialMarch 18, 2009 It was impossible not to notice that the United States removed China from its list of top 10 human rights violators just as the biggest anti-China protests in 20 years erupted in Tibet....
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...
Oasis China concerts are shelved
By BBC World News 02 March 2009 Oasis' debut concerts in China have been cancelled after the authorities revoked the band's licences to play, deeming them "unsuitable". Shows in Beijing and Shanghai due to take place next month have been...
China Closes Tibet To Foreign Tourists - Agencies, Hotel
By Agence France Presse | Dow Jones Newswire | via NASDAQ.COMFebruary 24, 2009 China has closed Tibet to foreign tourists ahead of next month's highly sensitive 50th anniversary of a failed uprising against Chinese rule, tour agencies and other industry people...
Tibetan Youth Dies in Custody
By RADIO FREE ASIAJanuary 30, 2009 A Tibetan youth detained for his role in a nonviolent protest has been beaten to death by police, Tibetan sources say. Pema Tsepak, 24, a resident of Punda town in the Dzogang county of...
China: Group's Web Site Blocked
By Agence France-Presse | THE NEW YORK TIMESJanuary 12, 2009 Amnesty International said Monday that its Web site had again been blocked in China and it urged the government to reopen access to it immediately. Roseann Rife, deputy director of...
Another Tibet--Uighur Mirrors the Issues in Tibet
By Matthias Kehrein and Florian Godovits | The Epoch TimesJanuary 05, 2009 The Uighurs, a nine million Muslim minority, residing in Eastern Turkistan in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, are one of the worst abused people at the hands of the...
Chinese Court Jails More Tibetans
By RADIO FREE ASIADecember 22, 2008 More jail terms are handed down to Tibetans implicated in widespread anti-China protests earlier this year. KATHMANDU--Authorities in China's southwestern province of Sichuan have handed down further prison terms to Tibetans detained in anti-China...
Post-Olympics China Turns Its Back On Internet Censorship Promises
By Jason Mick | DAILYTECH.COMDecember 18, 2008 Just when you thought China had softened on web crack-downs, it returns to its old ways China has not exactly been known for its great freedom of speech. Its citizens' internet access is tightly...
China says within rights to block some websites
By REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsDecember 16, 2008 China's foreign ministry said on Tuesday the country was within its rights to block websites with content illegal under Chinese law, including websites that referred to China and Taiwan as two...
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...
China listed U.S. athletes as possible troublemakers
By Christine Brennan | USA TODAYOctober 30, 2008 China's government was so concerned about the possibility of athlete demonstrations in the Beijing Olympics that it created a list of nine U.S. athletes and one assistant coach it thought might cause...
China spying on Skype users: Canadian researchers
By Agence France Presse | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsOctober 02, 2008 China is monitoring the chat messages of Skype users and censoring them if they contain sensitive keywords such as "Tibet" or "Communist Party," according to a group of Canadian...
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...
China's Rulers Stay Tough Despite the Olympics Hoopla
By Paul Mooney | U.S. News & World ReportAugust 26, 2008 China was intent on making a splash with the 2008 Olympics, which concluded on Sunday, and it did just that. The games are being described as the best ever,...
China 'blocks' iTunes music store
By BBC World NewsAugust 22, 2008 Apple iTunes customers in China fear the online store has been blocked after a pro-Tibet album featured on the site became a hit. The site has been unavailable inside China for the past week....
Protests still unwelcome in Beijing
By BBC NewsAugust 14, 2008 China has set aside three parks during the Olympics, to allow people to demonstrate. But, as the BBC's Michael Bristow finds out, the parks are empty and those who apply for permission to protest are...
5 Deported From China After 'Free Tibet' Stunt
By GILLIAN WONG - Associated Press Writer | via ABC NewsAugust 15, 2008 Five foreign activists were deported Friday after they scaled a landmark building in Beijing to unfurl a "Free Tibet" banner over the top of an Olympic Games billboard...
Chinese police rough up British TV crew at Olympics
by Charles Whelan | Agence France Presse via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsAugust 13, 2008 Chinese police roughed up a British TV crew and stopped them covering a pro-Tibet protest, witnesses said, in the latest case of interference with media freedom at...
Uneasy relations: China and the foreign press
By TIM SULLIVAN | Associated Press Writer via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsAssociated Press Writer Gillian Wong contributed to this reportAugust 13, 2008 Over at the media village, China is battering them with petty kindnesses. There's one person to open the door to...
China's leaders steer Games wrong way
By Christine Brennan - USA TODAYAugust 07, 2008 The popular notion is that the story of the Beijing Olympic Games begins this Friday night, 8.8.08, as the saying goes, with the opening ceremony in the glowing-red Bird's Nest. But that's...
China's Olympic muddle
The Christian Science Monitor July 18, 2008 Like a marathoner at the finish line, China seems whipped. It struggled two decades to host the Olympics that open in three weeks. It has spent about $50 billion, pumped up its athletes,...
China Expels British Citizen of Tibetan Descent
By Jill Drew | The Washington Post July 10, 2008 A British citizen of Tibetan descent was expelled from China this week as police clear the capital of anyone they believe might draw attention to political tensions during the Olympic...
Olympics haven't helped China's human rights: report
By Aileen McCabe | canada.com - where perspectives connectJuly 06, 2008 With just one month to go before the opening ceremony, it is increasingly obvious worldwide efforts to use the Beijing Olympics to hold China's feet to the fire on...
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...
Spotlight on China, darkness in Tibet
By Dan Southerland | The Christian Science Monitor June 11, 2008 China's media covered the country's earthquake tragedy more openly than any past disaster. But the Chinese government still maintains a blackout over news from Tibet, which experienced its biggest...
China Blocks Thousands of Hindus From Tibet Pilgrimage
By Heather Timmons and Hari Kumar | The New York TimesMay 21, 2008 The Chinese government is refusing to issue visas to Hindus trying to make the traditional summer pilgrimage to what they hold to be the home of Lord...
'Free Tibet' flags made in China
By BBC World News April 28, 2008 Police in southern China have discovered a factory manufacturing Free Tibet flags, media reports say. The factory in Guangdong had been completing overseas orders for the flag of the Tibetan government-in-exile. Workers said...
Protesters confront American outside French store in China
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | via The New York Times April 23, 2008 European business officials warned Wednesday that anti-French protests in China could spark a backlash against Chinese exports, while reports surfaced that protesters had confronted an American outside...
China Falls Short on Vows for Olympics
By Jill Drew and Maureen Fan | The Washington PostApril 21, 2008 China has spent billions of dollars to fulfill its commitment to stage a grand Olympics. Athletes will compete in world-class stadiums. New highways and train lines crisscross Beijing....
Nouvelles manifestations anti-françaises
France télévision - france2.comLe 20 avril 2008 De nouvelles manifestations anti-occidentales ont eu lieu dimanche dans plusieurs ville de la République populaire. Les rassemblements de dimanche Plus d'un millier de personnes se sont rassemblées devant le magasin Carrefour de la...
Anti-French rallies across China
By BBC World NewsApril 19, 2008 Protesters in several Chinese cities have gathered to demand a boycott of French products and denounce campaigns for Tibetan independence. Hundreds of people demonstrated in cities including Beijing, Wuhan, Hefei, Kunming, and Qingdao -...
China Steps Up Crackdown in Tibet
By RADIO FREE ASIA 17 April 2008 China is intensifying its crackdown on Tibet after the largest anti-Chinese protests there in almost 50 years. But many monks have refused to fly the Chinese flag on monastery roofs, sources in China...
China seals gateway into Tibet, stops refugee flow out
By DENIS D. GRAY Associated Press Writer | ABC News April 17, 2008 FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE, Nepal-Tibet Border Three lithe Chinese security men shift silently into position so they are anchored abreast exactly midway across Friendship Bridge, high above a Himalayan river...
Leading Tibetan Writer, Performer, Producer Arrested
By RADIO FREE ASIA April 15, 2008 Chinese authorities in Tibet have arrested a leading Tibetan writer, television producer, and performer in the midst of a major crackdown on anti-Chinese protests in the region. Plainclothes state security officers escorted Jamyang...
China's loyal youth
By Matthew Forney | International Herald Tribune April 15, 2008 Many sympathetic Westerners view Chinese society along the lines of what they saw in the waning days of the Soviet Union: a repressive government backed by old hard-liners losing its...
British Leader Skipping Opening Ceremony
By Bryan Mitchell - Associated Press Writer | Chicago TribuneApril 10, 2008 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will skip the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.He became the second major world leader after German Chancellor Angela Merkel to decide to...
Chinese Police Fire on Tibetan Protesters, Death Toll Unknown
By RADIO FREE ASIA April 04, 2008 Paramilitary police in China's southwestern Sichuan province fired on a crowd of Tibetan protesters demanding the release of two detained monks, killing and wounding an unknown number of people, Radio Free Asia (RFA)...
Foreign Media in China Harassed on Tibet
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The New York TimesApril 07, 2008 Western reporters in China have received harassing phone calls, e-mails and text messages, some with death threats, supposedly from ordinary Chinese complaining about alleged bias in coverage of recent...
Olympic Torch Draws Clashes in London
By JOHN F. BURNS | The New York TimesApril 6, 2008 LONDON -- Protesters objecting to China's human rights record clashed with the British police on Sunday as the Olympic torch was carried through London on its way to the...
Olympics 'worsening China rights'
By BBC News02 April 2008 According to Amnesty International, China is clamping down on dissent in a bid to portray a stable and harmonious image ahead of the Games in August. It urged the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and world...
Tibet Exile Radio Says China Jamming It
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The New York Times 02 April 2008 China has intensified its jamming of a Tibetan exile radio network's news broadcasts into Tibet during a crackdown on anti-government protests there, the network charged Wednesday. The Chinese...
Uyghurs Protest in China's Remote Xinjiang Region
By RADIO FREE ASIA01 April 2008 Several hundred ethnic Uyghurs have staged protests in China's remote and restive Xinjiang region following the death in custody of a prominent Uyghur businessman and philanthropist. Witnesses report protests at two locations in Khotan...
Report: Merkel to miss Beijing Olympics
By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL March 29, 2008 German Chancellor Angela Merkel has become the first world leader to announce she will not be at the Summer Olympics in Beijing, a German official confirmed.Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in addition to confirming...
Pressed Over Tibet, China Berates Foreign Media
By David Barboza | The New York Times March 25, 2008 Chinese officials have sharply criticized foreign reporters here over their coverage of the riots in Tibet, accusing them of biased reporting and preventing them from traveling to Tibet or...
Indian minister's China visit cancelled over Tibet row
By THE STRAITS TIMES (Singapore) March 27, 2008 NEW DELHI has cancelled a proposed visit to Beijing by Trade Minister Kamal Nath after China summoned the Indian envoy over Tibetan protests in India, a report said on Thursday. Mr Nath...
Unrest at Shuttered Gateway to Tibet
By Jake Hooker | The New York Times March 26, 2008 In the back room of a Tibetan teahouse, three robed monks spoke in whispers. One monk said his home in Luhuo County had been littered with fliers calling on...
Pro-Tibet Activists Disrupt Olympic Flame Ceremony
By Anthee Carassava | The New York Times March 25, 2008 Activists angered by China's crackdown in Tibet upstaged an Olympic flame-lighting ceremony here Monday, unfurling a banner and calling for a boycott to the Beijing Summer Games before they were...
China bans Tiananmen Square live shots during Olympics
By USA TODAY March 23, 2008 Don't expect to turn on your TV during the Beijing Olympics and see live shots of Tiananmen Square, where Chinese troops crushed pro-democracy protests nearly two decades ago. Apparently unnerved by recent unrest among...
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 Tries to Thwart News Reports From Tibet
By THE NEW YORK TIMES March 18, 2008 The Chinese government is restricting foreign journalists from entering Tibet and neighboring areas, and blocking some news, video and Internet reports about the protests there from appearing inside China, according to journalists...
China Terrorizes Tibet
A New York Times Editorial March 18, 2008 It was impossible not to notice that the United States removed China from its list of top 10 human rights violators just as the biggest anti-China protests in 20 years erupted in...
Tibet and the Ghosts of Tiananmen
By Bill Powell | TIME Magazine March 17, 2008 It is still nearly five months before the Olympic torch is to be lit in Beijing, officially starting the 29th summer Olympics. But, diplomats in the Chinese capital believe that a...
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...
Violence in Tibet as Monks Clash With the Police
By Jim Yardley | The New York Times15 March 2008 Violence erupted Friday morning in a busy market area of the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, as Buddhist monks and other ethnic Tibetans brawled with Chinese security forces in bloody clashes. Witnesses...
China Blocks YouTube Over Tibet Videos
By The Associated Press | The New York Times16 March 2008 China blocked access to YouTube.com on Sunday after dozens of videos of recent protests in Tibet appeared on the popular U.S. video Web site. The blocking added to the...
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...
Taiwanese to rally over China law
By Caroline Gluck | BBC World News March 16, 2008 Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to take part in rival political rallies across Taiwan. What is known as Super Sunday is the last chance for big weekend rallies...
Chinese Police Fire Tear-Gas at Protesting Tibetan Monks
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Tibetan Monks in Critical Condition After Attempted Suicide, as Protests Mount
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China to crack down on singers after Bjork outburst
By REUTERS | via (uncensored) Yahoo! News March 07, 2008 China will tighten its controls over foreign singers and other performers after Icelandic singer Bjork shouted "Tibet! Tibet!" at a Shanghai concert last weekend, the Ministry of Culture said on...
Bjork makes 'free Tibet' gesture
By BBC NewsMarch 04, 2008 The Icelandic singer, Bjork, has caused controversy among fans in China by shouting "Tibet! Tibet!" at the end of a concert in Shanghai. The cry followed a powerful performance of her song Declare Independence. Talk...
New Book Looks Unflinchingly at 1959-79 Tibet
By RADIO FREE ASIA February 25, 2008 When Chinese troops suppressed a nationalist uprising in Tibet's capital city Lhasa in 1959, a curtain came down over Tibet. Thousands were killed in fighting across the country or vanished into labor camps...
Prince Charles' Olympic-sized snub to China
By Richard Spencer | The Daily Telegraph, United KingdomJanuary 28, 2008 The Prince of Wales has snubbed the Chinese government by refusing to attend the Olympic Games in Beijing this summer. The Prince made his decision known to campaigners for...
China: US Navy spat no misunderstanding
By Anita Chang | Associated Press | via (uncensored) Yahoo! NewsNovember 29, 2007 China's last-minute cancellation of a U.S. Navy visit to Hong Kong was not the result of a misunderstanding, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Thursday, adding that ties...
China Finds Tibetan Nomad Guilty Over Lithang Protest
By Radio Free AsiaOctober 30, 2007 A court in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan has convicted of subversion a Tibetan nomad who called for the return of the Dalai Lama at a horseracing festival in August. Ronggyal Adrak was...
Armed Police Suppress Over 1,000 Monks in Zhaibung Monastery, Tibet
The Epoch TimesOctober 24, 2007 A confronation between monks in Zhaibung Monastery and the police broke out on October 17. Four days after the confrontation, the largest monastery in Lhasa, Tibet is still sealed off with over 1,000 monks and...
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