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  • Chinese daily blasts Indian system over rapes BEIJING, China, 31 December 2012 This post has one comment

    India's "inefficient and unequal democracy" cannot provide answers to social evils and that is why angry citizens are taking to the streets, an influential Chinese newspaper has said. ...

  • Former Tibetan PM Sonam Topgyal passes away MCLEOD GANJ, India, 30 December 2012 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has one comment

    Former Prime Minister Sonam Topgyal, who had a life-long stint in the service of the Central Tibetan Administration, died on Sunday morning after a prolonged illness. ...

  • Third Preliminary North America Rangzen conference held in NYC MCLEOD GANJ, India, 30 December 2012 | Tibet Sun Newsroom This post has no comments yet

    The Third Preliminary North America Rangzen conference was concluded in New York City with more than 45 people from across the United States, Canada, and Europe participating. ...

  • Body of gang rape victim cremated in Delhi; protests continue NEW DELHI, India, 30 December 2012 | Adnan Abidi and Devidutta Tripathy This post has no comments yet

    The body of the 23-year old woman, whose gang rape provoked protests and rare national debate about violence against women in India, arrived back in New Delhi and was cremated. ...

  • India mourns Delhi gang-rape victim NEW DELHI, India, 29 December 2012 | Ashok Sharma This post has one comment

    Indian police charged six men with murder on Saturday, adding to accusations that they beat and gang-raped a woman on a New Delhi bus nearly two weeks ago in a case that shocked the country. ...

  • Third Tibetan women’s leadership training held in Delhi MCLEOD GANJ, India, 29 December 2012 | Tibet Sun Newsroom This post has no comments yet

    A ten-day Tibetan women's leadership training concluded in Delhi on 27 December with a total of 25 young Tibetan women from Sikkim, Chennai, Gujurat, Dharamshala, and Delhi participating. ...

  • Indian gang-rape victim dies in Singapore SINGAPORE, 29 December 2012 | Annabelle Liang This post has no comments yet

    An Indian student whose savage gang-rape on a bus in New Delhi sparked mass protests across the country died on Saturday in a Singapore hospital after suffering severe organ failure. ...

  • China seizes TVs, satellite equipment in Tibetan area BEIJING, China, 28 December 2012 This post has no comments yet

    Chinese authorities have confiscated televisions from 300 monasteries in a heavily Tibetan part of the west of the country and dismantled satellite equipment that broadcast "anti-China" programmes. ...

  • China tightens controls to deter self-immolations BEIJING, China, 27 December 2012 This post has no comments yet

    Chinese authorities are tightening controls in an ethnic Tibetan region where at least 10 people set themselves on fire and hundreds demonstrated last month to protest Chinese rule. ...

  • Chinese scholars push for mild political reform BEIJING, China, 26 December 2012 | Didi Tang and Gillian Wong This post has no comments yet

    More than 70 prominent Chinese scholars and lawyers have urged the country's new Communist Party leaders to undertake moderate political reforms including separating the party from government. ...