| Obama describes Tibet as a part of China | 17-NOV-09 |
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| Describing Tibet as a part of China, US President Barack Obama today supported the early resumption of talks between Beijing and representatives of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama. |
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| Obama seeks to deepen ties with China, skips Tibet | 14-NOV-09 |
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| On the eve of his maiden trip to Beijing as the US President, Barack Obama today sought to deepen America's strategic and economic dialogue with China and improve military communications between the two countries, but refrained from making any reference to Tibet. |
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| Tibetan carpet makers weave their magic in Dehradun | 01-SEP-09 |
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| Sitting in a dark room full of woollen yarn, Samten, 62, a Tibetan refugee, is busy making balls of wool. Despite her old age, Samten labours hard in unknotting the jumbled yarn at Rajpur village in Dehradun, nestled in the foothills of the hill resort of Mussoorie. |
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| Another Little Tibet | 30-AUG-09 |
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| What Dharamsala is to north India, Bylakuppe is to the south of the country. A heady mass of green, the four-decade-old Tibetan settlement of Bylakuppe is a little place, fortunately quite removed from the touristy frills of commercial enterprises, motels and eateries. Instead, what you get to savour are fresh, lush greens and a number of pretty monasteries. |
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| China's rise has enormous implications for US: Campbell | 11-JUN-09 |
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| Obama's top diplomatic nominee for East Asia said that the rise of China has enormous implications for the United States. And as the Obama Administration plans to engage China on a host of economic and diplomatic issues, human rights and Tibet would continue to remain a subject of concern, he said. |
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| The Karmapa breaks his silence | 23-MAY-09 |
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| Ogyen Trinley Dorje hopes to get a university education, but will the government allow it? Anand Sankar wonders. |
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| Dalai Lama sees long-term hope for Tibet | 11-MAY-09 |
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| The Dalai Lama said Chinese rule was a "death sentence" for Tibetan heritage but stressed the future looked brighter for his people as China itself modernises. |
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| Brand Dalai Lama | 25-APR-09 |
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| How much is he worth? Anand Sankar does some number crunching. |
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| Tawang votes under China's shadow | 17-APR-09 |
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| It is voting day at the magnificent Tawang Gompa, or monastery, which looms over this border town, perched at 10,000 feet, high on the China border. At 10.30 a.m. 171 of the 265 monks eligible to vote have already cast their ballots. Others wait in their crimson and ochre robes, while polling officers send off a first time voter to fetch proof of his identity. |
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| Dalai Lama completes 50 yrs in exile in India | 01-APR-09 |
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| Tibetan spiritual leader in exile, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, today called upon the Chinese government to throw open Tibet to “independent, impartial observers” immediately. Only that, he said, would settle the trading of opinions that occurs when the Tibetan Government in Exile and the People's Republic of China (PRC) sit down for dialogue. |
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| Grim viewing: China's YouTube snub | 26-MAR-09 |
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| China and the US have a basic failure to connect. YouTube, the online video portal, found itself blocked in the Middle Kingdom days after a video purporting to show police beating a Tibetan protester found its way onto screens worldwide. The West's free media, like its free-market thinking, looks like another sacred cow China can live without. |
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| YouTube blocked in China for 2nd day after Tibet clip | 26-MAR-09 |
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| YouTube, the video-sharing Web site owned by Google Inc, was inaccessible in China for at least a second day after Tibet’s government-in-exile released video it said showed Chinese police beating protestors. |
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