Category Archives: Elsewhere on the Web

• Tibet Airlines receives its first A330 4 July 2016 | Theodore Koumelis no comments

  Lhasa-based Tibet Airlines has received its first widebody aircraft, the first A330-200 in China, which allows airlines to operate from the most demanding high altitude airports. ...

• Qinghai-Tibet Railway boosts Tibet’s economy 29 June 2016 | Li Jianhua no comments

  Over the past decade, the 2000-kilometre railway linking Xining, capital of Qinghai Province, and Lhasa, capital of the Tibet region, has brought a big difference to the lives of people living in Tibet. ...

• “Tibetans in-exile” cannot speak Tibetan: Whose fault? 22 June 2016 no comments

  All Tibetan schools practice bilingual education. Pastoral areas and some village schools teach simultaneously in both languages, with main classes taught in Tibetan. ...

• China’s top legislature opposes US lawmakers’ meeting with Dalai Lama 17 June 2016 no comments

  Some US lawmakers ignore the "facts" that the Dalai Lama has violated China's constitution and laws, and support his separatist activities, said the statement. ...

• Repression expands under ‘Stability Maintenance’ in Tibetan areas 22 May 2016 | Human Rights Watch no comments

  The Chinese government’s campaign to suppress peaceful dissent in Tibetan areas has continued to produce a high rate of detentions, prosecutions, and convictions since the outbreak of widespread protests eight years ago. ...

• Tibet govt-in-exile in Dharamshala unpopular among Tibetans: China 3 May 2016 no comments

  China Tuesday called the Dharamshala-based Tibetan government-in-exile "unpopular" in Tibet and its recent election for the post of Prime Minister a "political farce". ...

• China “strongly unsatisfied” as Dalai Lama invited for human rights activity 11 March 2016 no comments

  China was also against officials from any country to have contact with Dalai Lama in any form. ...

• How Kennedy supported India against China in 1962 war 17 January 2016 | Bruce Riedel no comments

  On 28 October 1962 John F Kennedy wrote a letter to Jawaharlal Nehru assuring him that the US fully backed India against the Chinese attack, promising both moral and tangible support if India sought help. ...

• The politics of Tibet’s poisonous religious divide 22 December 2015 | David Lague, Paul Mooney, and Benjamin Kang Lim no comments

  The doctrinal schism that the Chinese Communist Party is using to hound the Dalai Lama arose long ago in the internecine politics of his own school of Tibetan Buddhism. ...

• ULFA’s Abhizeet Asom makes first open submission to China for Assam’s ‘sovereignty’ 8 November 2015 | Prabin Kalita no comments

  Years after reports of anti-talk Ulfa (Independent) leader Paresh Baruah's close proximity to China, the outfit on Saturday made its first open submission by seeking China's "friendship" to help it attain "sovereignty" in Assam. ...