TPUM[Friday, May 30, 2008 17:10]

Tsewang Rigzin, President of TYC in front of Roshanabad Jail in Hardwar.

Nainital, May 30 - At approximately 3:30 PM yesterday, the five Presidents of the leading Tibetan non-governmental organizations in India, Tsewang Rigzin, B Tsering, Ngawang Woebar, Chime Youngdrung, and Tenzin Choeying, and one coordinator of the March to Tibet, Lobsang […]

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AP[Saturday, May 31, 2008 03:53]

By MIN LEE
Associated Press Writer
HONG KONG - Mainland Chinese lawyers known for defending rights have been unable to get their licenses renewed ahead of an annual deadline, a Hong Kong group said Friday.
China Human Rights Lawyers’ Concern Group chairman Albert Ho identified three of the lawyers at a news conference in […]

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 Tibetan exiles’ march on foot that began from New Delhi has reached Bodh Gaya in Bihar.
Around 135 Tibetans including five women and an 80-year-old man began theirarch on foot from New Delhi on April 9.
All along the way, they distributed pamphlets in order to create awareness and garner support for the cause of the freedom […]

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nternational Campaign for Tibet
May 30th, 2008
Sangye Lhamo, 26 years old, protested along with two other nuns from Dragkar nunnery in Kardze county on May 28 before being detained by authorities.
Tibetan nuns have taken a leading role in dissent in Kardze (Chinese: Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan (the Tibetan area of Kham) with two […]

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China’s force & diplomacy
The Need For Realism In India
By Subroto Roy
It is almost as large an error to overestimate Chinese military aims and capabilities as it has been to underestimate them. On 8 May 2008 in Tokyo’s Waseda University, China’s President Hu Jintao declared in a speech broadcast live “China has taken a defensive military […]

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OXFORD, England (AFP) — The Dalai Lama on Friday winds up his British tour, which was hit by a row over a meeting with Prime Minister Gordon Brown and protests, with a talk on Buddhism at the famed Oxford university.
The exiled Tibetan spiritual and political leader was to address academics and students in the 17th […]

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PARIS (AFP) — France has asked China for an explanation following reports that Beijing travel agents have been asked to stop promoting trips to France, the foreign ministry said Friday.
“We must absolutely get some explanation because it would be worrying if this were confirmed,” said foreign ministry spokeswoman Pascale Andreani.
Several Beijing travel agents said Thursday […]

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OXFORD (AFP) — The Dalai Lama wrapped up his British tour at Oxford University on Friday, faced again by noisy protesters claiming he is stifling religious freedom, a pro-China lobby and exiled Tibetan backers.
The 72-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner addressed academics, students and members of the public in the 17th century Sheldonian Theatre during a […]

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Beijing - The movement of rock that caused the terrible earthquake in Sichuan province more than two weeks ago has spurred a shift in worldwide public sentiment towards China. Ten weeks before the Olympic Games in Beijing the country’s quick reaction to the devastation left behind by the 8.0-magnitude earthquake that killed up to 80,000 […]

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Vienna - France is watching the progress of talks between China and representatives of the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled leader, before deciding on attending the opening of the Beijing Olympics, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Friday.
‘There is progress, which is positive’ Sarkozy said, after a meeting with Austria’s Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer in Vienna.
France was […]

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