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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
BEIJING—China will send additional police officers to liaison with security forces in countries facing major terror threats, in a bid to boost cooperation and head off attacks, the Public Security Ministry said Wednesday.An announcement on the ministry's Web site said police officers already posted abroad had played a key role in heading off attacks on Chinese diplomatic missions and financial...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Posted on Tuesday, 12.02.08 Chinese police to dispatch anti-terror liaisonsThe Associated PressBEIJING -- China will send additional police officers to liaison with security forces in countries facing major terror threats, in a bid to boost cooperation and head off attacks, the Public Security Ministry said Wednesday.An announcement on the ministry's Web site said police officers already posted...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Last updated December 2, 2008 7:42 p.m. PTChinese police to dispatch anti-terror liaisonsTHE ASSOCIATED PRESSBEIJING -- China will send additional police officers to liaison with security forces in countries facing major terror threats, in a bid to boost cooperation and head off attacks, the Public Security Ministry said Wednesday.An announcement on the ministry's Web site said police officers...
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Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tibetans to protest at Chinese Embassy in Dublin on 10th December, 2008 On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the Tibetan Community in Ireland will hold a protest demonstration on 10th December, 2008. The protest will start from 10 am at the Chinese Embassy, 40 AILESBURY ROAD, DUBLIN 4, IRELAND.
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Phayul Latest News (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
More than 100 Tibet supporters from over 30 countries affirmed their support for the Dalai Lama's emphasis on engagement with China and outreach to the Chinese people, but expressed serious concern about Beijing's propaganda offensive on
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Memories Of Movement (Free subscription) | yesterday
More than 100 Tibet supporters from over 30 countries affirmed their support for the Dalai Lama’s emphasis on engagement with China and outreach to the Chinese people, but expressed serious concern about Beijing’s propaganda offensive on Tibet and failure to engage with the Tibetan side in the dialogue process. The activists gathered in Delhi this weekend [...]
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Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday
... his mountain homeland.There now seems little chance that Sarkozy will abandon the meeting. But a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman nonetheless pressed that demand, warning that the dispute was clouding broader ties with the EU, China's biggest trade partner."France is clear about China's principled stance and major concerns," the spokesman, Liu Jianchao, told a news conference in Beijing."Now...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Business ties with France will likely suffer if French President Nicolas Sarkozy goes ahead with a planned meeting with the Dalai Lama, a leading Chinese government-backed scholar was quoted Saturday as saying.
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Randy McDonald's Livejournal (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Gwynne Dyer's column "The Future of Tibet" , publishing in (among other places) this latest NOW , comes to some grim conclusions about Tibet's future. [T]he Beijing regime has never understood that the Dalai Lama was its best chance of reconciling Tibetans to Chinese rule. Instead, it defined Tibetan nationalism as an artificial phenomenon that was stirred up from outside by evil plotters...
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Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
... Party authorities of China. He made headlines in January 2000, at age 14, with his flight from Chinese-ruled Tibet into exile, traveling by foot and horseback, then by jeep and helicopter to India. Allegations of espionage, intrigue involving a forgotten amulet and squabbling within a monastery marked his early years in India.Exuding self-assuredness, the solidly built, 6-foot-tall Karmapa...
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Mick Hartley (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
The Chinese are not happy: China says it had "no choice but to postpone" a summit with the EU because of the French stance on the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader. China's foreign ministry said French President Nicolas Sarkozy's...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
PARIS — China has indefinitely postponed a summit scheduled for next week with the European Union because of European leaders' plans to meet with the exiled leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, EU president France announced Wednesday.The Chinese decision was a dramatic example of the lengths to which Beijing is prepared to go to try to internationally isolate the Dalai Lama, a Nobel Peace Prize...
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
DHARMSALA, India - For Buddhists, the first noble truth is that all life is suffering. That apparently applies to beauty pageants, too.The Miss Tibet pageants, seen by many as a showcase of feminine beauty, have been fraught with controversy and drama. Even though the contest takes place in a drowsy Himalayan town in India - home to the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan exiles - the Chinese government...
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Phayul Latest News (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
... who it maintains is trying to win independence for his Himalayan homeland that has been under Chinese rule since 1951."But this is unprecedented, it's serious, China has never before cancelled summits," said Jean-Pierre Cabestan, a professor of political science at Hong Kong Baptist University."China feels much more powerful than before and wants to impose its rules on the...
