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On his first foreign trip, President Trump has met with King Salman in Saudi Arabia, the home of Mecca and Medina, the holiest shrines of Islam. He met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel and vis

Recently I have seen a lot of writings on the internet, like “30 Letters to the Party Secretary of Qinghai Hainan Prefecture”, and “Rebuttal from my Sick Bed”. Nationality experts and professors, students and officials, and many ordinary people are writing letters out of concern for minority

Recently in the exile Tibetan society, a poem written and posted on Facebook by prominent Tibetan independence activist Atsok Lukar Jam became the subject of heated debates and discussions. The poe

While it has become fashionable to pair China and India, as if they were joined at the hip, it is often forgotten that the two have little in

The State Council of China unveiled the National New Type Urbanization Plan (NUP) in 2014 to increase the percentage of urban residents in the total population of China from 52.6 percent in 2012 to 60 percent by 2020. The ratio of citizens with urban hukou (resident permit) will increase 35.3 percent

We are writing this with utmost concern about the recent development in Dharamsala regarding the resolution taken by a group (བོད་ཀྱི་རྩ་དོན་གླིང་སྐད་འཕྲིན་ཚོགས་པ།) and an association (དྷ་ས་ས་གནས་མདོ་སྨད་རྒྱུན་ལས།) ་to concert a

Last year, when putting together the March 10th Memorial website, a major problem I encountered was obtaining photographs and film footages for this critical period in our modern history. Three black-&-white photo

There are demonstrated benefits from mindfulness techniques such as paying attention to one’s breathing to help manage stress, develop resilience, increase productivity and have a more positive impact on society. However, in my experience, and as I explain below, I find it more powerfu

Perhaps the last thing that a student wants to do is write knowing that one's teacher will not be there to read it. Everyone who has known Elliot Sperling has a reason to mourn and a reason to rejoic

February 13, 2013 marked 100 years since His Holiness 13th Dalai Lama proclaimed the restoration of Tibet’s independence following a period of Qing domination. In the last few years, Februar