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| China may have plotted to poison me: Dalai Lama | |
| Indiatimes.com May 13, 2012, 08.57PM IST LONDON: Tibet's Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, fears China may have plotted to kill him by training female agents with poison in their hair and on their clothing, he told Britain's Sunday Telegraph newspaper. China has ruled Tibet since 1950, and the Chinese government has repeatedly accused exiled Tibetans, including the Dalai Lama, of stoking dissent against its rule. The spiritual leader fled to India in 1959 after a failed uprising. | |
| Al Jazeera forced to close Beijing bureau | |
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DHARAMSHALA, May 9: Al-Jazeera, the Qatar based news service, has been forced to close its English-language bureau in Beijing after its reporter was expelled.
China decided not to renew the press credentials and visa for Melissa Chan, al-Jazeera's China correspondent since 2007 while further refusing to allow a replacement.
Although the Chinese foreign ministry declined from saying why the reporter had been expelled, it is widely believed that Chinese officials were not happy with a documentary on labour camps in China that Al Jazeera had aired a few months back.
"We stress that everybody must abide by Chinese laws and regulations and must abide by their professional ethics," spokesman Hong Lei said, responding to repeated questions.
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China in a release yesterday strongly criticised Beijing for its censorship and intimidation of foreign correspondents.
“This is the most extreme example of a recent pattern of using journalist visas in an attempt to censor and intimidate foreign correspondents in China,” FCCC said.
While noting that the officials expelled Chan for violating rules and regulations that they have not specified, the FCCC said it views the incident as a “grave threat” to the foreign reporters’ ability to work in China.
Al Jazeera expressed its disappointment at Beijing’s actions and said it will continue to request a presence in China.
"We are committed to our coverage of China. Just as China’s news services cover the world freely we would expect that same freedom in China for any Al Jazeera journalist,” the news service said on its website.
Bob Dietz of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said Chan’s case, the first expulsion of a journalist since 1998, “marks a real deterioration in China’s media environment and sends a message that international coverage is unwanted.”
A survey by the FCCC last year had found that ninety-four percent of journalists who responded felt the work environment had deteriorated in China while seventy percent had experienced harassment or violence of some kind. A whopping 99% had said that reporting conditions in China do not meet international standards.
Earlier this year, Beijing based foreign reporters, who tried to enter the restive regions of western Tibet to cover the ongoing wave of self-immolations, were detained, kicked out of the region and threatened of visa cancellations. |
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| Adam Yauch (1964-2012) – In Memoriam | |
| DHARAMSHALA: The Central Tibetan Administration is deeply saddened by the demise of Adam Yauch, a staunch long-time Tibet supporter. As a member of the world-renowned hip hop group Beastie Boys, Mr. Yauch used his fame to bring a new dynamism to the issue of Tibet by holding several Tibetan Freedom concerts in the 1990s. The concerts played a pivotal role in raising awareness about the issue of Tibet amongst the youth worldwide. His connection to Tibet brought him into a meeting with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 1995. Since then, he took keen interest in Buddhism. To implement his initiatives to support Tibet, Mr. Yauch established the Milarepa Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting awareness and activism regarding the injustices perpetrated in Tibet as a result of the Chinese occupation. In 1996, Milarepa Foundation produced the first Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, which was attended by 100,000 people, making it the biggest benefit concert on US soil since 1985′s Live Aid. Subsequently, the Tibetan Freedom Concert series went on to stage some of the most significant benefit shows in the world for nearly a decade following in New York City, Washington DC, Tokyo, Sydney, Amsterdam, Taipei and other cities. ‘Adam Yauch made a remarkable contribution in raising the issue of Tibet on the international arena through music. His generous support and contribution will always be remembered by the Tibetan people. We express our heartfelt prayers and condolences to his family’ said Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay. Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay first met Mr Yauch at Harvard university and they have remained good friends ever since. Mr. Yauch passed away in his native New York City on 4 May 2012. He was 47 years old. He is survived by his wife Dechen Wangdu and their 14 year old daughter, Tenzin Losel Yauch. | |
| China forces Karma Monastery monks to disrobe | |
| DHARAMSHALA, May 8: In a revival of Cultural Revolution tactics, monks at the Karma Monastery in Chamdo, Tibet are being forced to disrobe by Chinese officials. The monastery itself has been placed under a heightened security clampdown with a large presence of Chinese officials and security personnel carrying out patriotic re-education campaign. “Monks are being ordered to disrobe while the whole Karma monastery has been sealed by the Chinese security officers,” Sonam Tsering, an exile Tibetan with contacts in the region told reporters. The patriotic re-education campaign is aimed at 'educating' the masses about 'opposing splittism', 'protecting stability' and 'backing development', by holding denunciation session of the Dalai Lama and screening propaganda shows and teaching Chinese laws and regulations. “Many monks are fleeing the monastery as the Chinese authorities are forcing them to denounce the Dalai Lama,” Sonam added. Following the self-immolation of Tenzin Phuntsog, a former monk at the monastery and the reported bombing of an empty municipal office in the region, last year, monks at the monastery are continuing to face severe restrictions. Although no casualties were reported in the October blast, local Chinese authorities directed their suspicions towards Karma monastery. The monastery was locked down and strict restrictions were placed on its monks, resulting in the arrest of 70 monks while over 40 monks reportedly escaped into the hills. Speaking to Phayul, the director of TCHRD, Tsering Tsomo had earlier said that most of the monks of the Karma monastery have either been arrested or have fled the monastery in order to avoid growing Chinese repression and surveillance. "The monastery initially had over 300 monks but now not many are left,” Tsomo said. “For instance, the dialectic department in the monastery had to be shut down as all of its 120 students left the monastery. Many monks fled to escape the repeated visits and questionings by security officials.” The Dalai Lama has on several occasions publicly urged Tibetans inside Tibet to follow Chinese orders and denounce him to avoid torture and imprisonment. | |
| 49 million people used the Gormo-Lhasa railway since opening | |
| DHARAMSHALA, May 8: Statistics releases by a Chinese state company say that more than 49 million people have travelled on the Gormo-Lhasa railway since the route opened in July 2006. A spokesperson for the Sining based Qinghai-Tibet Railway Company told the official Xinhua news agency that passengers on the railway have increased on average 10.3 percent annually. According to the spokesperson, a total of 8.6 million tourists visited Tibet in 2011 on the railway billed as the world’s highest. However, earlier this year the same company had said that 6.5 million people had used the rail line during the same period. The Gormo-Lhasa railway is the cornerstone of China’s Western Development Strategy aimed at cementing its control over the restive Tibetan region. A political project, as stated by China’s former president Jiang Zemin, the rail line is meant to consolidate a strong Chinese presence in Tibet by accelerating Han migration into Tibet. As a direct impact of the railways, the population of Tibet’s ancient capital city of Lhasa which used to be 50-60,000 soared to 300,000 of which 200,000 were Han Chinese immigrants. Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has often stated that “some kind of cultural genocide” is taking place inside Tibet with pointers to the rail line representing a form of “demographic aggression” by China. According to the same report, the high-elevation rail line also transported 40 million tonnes of cargo in 2011 – an 8 per cent year-on-year increase. Although the official did not specify the types of cargo transported, one of the foremost purposes of the 1,956 km rail line has been to provide easier access to Tibet’s mines and greatly increase the transfer of extracted minerals from the resource rich Tibetan plateau. Officials at the railway company estimate that by the end of the 2011-2015 period, Tibet will receive annual tourist arrivals of around 20 million. | |
| Education Department holds orientation programme for class XII graduates | |
| Phayul[Sunday, May 06, 2012 13:57] By Tendar Tsering DHARAMSHALA, May 6: The Education Department of Central Tibetan Administration yesterday held a daylong college orientation programme for class 12 graduate students in Dharamshala. Tibetan students from the Tibetan Children Village Schools, Tibetan Homes Foundation, Sambhota Tibetan Schools as well as Central School for Tibetans participated in the orientation. “This is the 8th college orientation for class XII graduates, and this time, around 140 Tibetan students from all parts of India have come to participate,” Dolker Wangmo, head of the Career Counseling Section at the Education Department said. Apart from imparting information about scholarship and college admissions, Tibetan professionals working in Dharamshala were invited to share their experiences and expertise with the students. Presiding over the inaugural function, Topgyal Tsering, Additional Secretary of the Education Department, reminded the students that they were entering a “new chapter” in their lives while urging the students to act as Tibetan ambassadors in their respective college. “In your respective colleges and universities you must remember that you are also the representatives and ambassadors of Tibet,” Tsering said. Tibetan professionals who spoke at the orientation included, Dr Chok Monlam Peltsok, Gyaltsen, Tenzin Lekshay, and Tendar Tsering, reporter for Phayul among others. The professionals spoke on topics ranging from the relevance of studying Tibetan language in today’s world to journalism and from computer education, law, psychology, and social Work to serving the Central Tibetan Administration. Speaking to Phayul at the end of the orientation, a student said that the programme has taught him to choose his profession based on his passion. “Listening to all those professionals, I am now certain that I must choose my career based on what I am passionate about,” the student said. Scholarship application forms and sample college admission forms were also distributed to the students at the orientation programme. | |
| In pictures: Tibetan exiles rally | |
 
Tibetan exiles around the world, like this man in India, have been expressing solidarity with protestors inside Tibet. |
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| more readings>>> Pa dru Daman Tsang Dambruggestraat 34 Autwerpen 2060 Belgium September 23, 2005 Dearest Uncle, I hope this letter of mine will find you in the best of spirit and in the pink of health. To begin with this letter, I feel that I am sending this letter to my father because I always used to feel that you are like a father to me. I am indebted to you. What I am today is all because of you. I would be like a fish on a dry land without your care and love. I would have been that same uneducated girl, blind and wearing topsy-turvy clothes. You supported me to slip through the net of darkness and changed me from a remote village girl into a modern school going girl. Whenever I did something worthy, first of all a glimpse of you comes in front of me and I feel really proud and think, "Yes Uncle. I did it." Likewise if I am unable to negotiate a path through a maze of hurdles and I failed, immediately a picture of you flashes in front of my eyes and encourages me to do better next time. You had acknowledged the importance of education for me. Thank you for every thing you did for me. I am extremely grateful to you. Unfortunately the sudden departure of us in 2001, when you left for abroad startled me! But in some ways I am grateful to this departure as it let me realize how much you mean to me. I didn't know it before though you stood by my side whenever I am in dilemmas. May be it’s because of my innocence and ignorance. A deep sense of regret always click my mind for that. Moreover, I may have created many mischief which might have hurt you. Today through this letter, I beg your pardon for all those things. Yeah! I know you will forgive me but for the sake of fading away of my sense of regret. Fate has played a very cruel joke on me by letting me depart from my dearest parents in 1997, but I never felt their absence because of your presence, care, love and kindness. Your love and care is a treasure that I really can't measure. This letter is only a piece of what I feel for you; while your contribution for me is like a vast ocean. So, with this I am going to stop my dancing pen here. With lots of love, Your niece, Apa Lhamo XI C |
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