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Monthly Archives: October, 2008

Communist hardliners in bid to oust China’s PM: Report

Hardliners in China's Communist Party are planning to oust China's most popular politician and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, a media report said on Sunday. It said hardliners in the party's propaganda department and at the People's Daily newspaper had orchestrated a campaign of abuse

Unlearnt Chinese lessons

India should have learnt from the way China said one thing and did exactly the other in relation to Tibet. Nehru had convinced himself that China won’t enter Tibet. He and K. M Panikkar, his ambassador in Peking, continued to maintain that an invasion of Tibet was highly unlikely

China’s Premier admits govt partly to blame for milk scandal

China's Premier Wen Jiabao said his government was partly to blame for the tainted milk scandal that has killed four infants and sickened 53,000 throughout the country

No Indo-Tibet barter trade this season

For the first time in two decades, the seasonal barter trade between India and Tibet will not take place this year as the Chinese government has not allowed Indian traders to enter Tibet through

CPJ condemns China’s detention of Tibetan filmmakers

The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the detention in western China of a filmmaker and his assistant, who have been held for nearly seven months after taping interviews with Tibetan residents about their lives under Chinese government rule

Tibetan filmmaker temporarily released from prison

Jigme Gyatso, who assisted filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen for taping interviews with Tibetans in Tibet about their lives under Chinese government rule, has been temporarily released after being held for nearly seven months

China extends Olympic media freedoms for foreign press: govt

China on Friday announced it had extended rules introduced for the Olympics allowing foreign reporters greater freedoms, but there was no easing of restrictions for domestic press

Local TSC Organizes Inter-School Painting, Essay & Debate Contest

The Bylakuppe local Chapter of Tibetan Solidarity Committee organized an Inter-Tibetan School Contests in Painting, Tibetan Essay Writing and Debate. The Painting and Essay Contests were held in mid September. The Debate was held at a special

Europe Tibetan Congress – a bridge to nowhere?

For the first time, over a hundred Tibetans representing 15 European nations gathered this weekend in Basel, Switzerland, with a stated purpose of reinvigorating the Tibetan movement at European level. Also on agenda

Indian youths hold ‘Free Tibet’ bike rally

More than 150 Indian youths from Wardha in India’s Maharashtra state took part in a ‘Free Tibet’ bike rally last week. The bike rally, themed "Free Tibet, Save India"

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