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US senators approve 5,000 visas for Tibet refugees

Agence France-PresseMay 20, 2013 17:01
US lawmakers debating a landmark immigration bill on Monday approved the provision of 5,000 visas to Tibetan refugees to enter the United States over the next three years. Citing "terrible" and increasing oppression by Chinese authorities against Tibetans, Senator Dianne Feinstein offered the matter as an amendment to the vast legislation aimed at fixing the US immigration system.

Dalai Lama warns of power in hands of few

Agence France-PresseMay 14, 2013 19:45
The Dalai Lama warned Tuesday against the accumulation of power in the hands of the few and told US politicians that maternal love at an early age was vital for policy-making. Addressing lawmakers at the state Assembly in Wisconsin, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader said that he occasionally felt bullied as a child from the few officials who held power to guide him as a young monk.

Cameron spells out British stance on Tibet

Agence France-PresseMay 8, 2013 13:55
Britain does not support a Tibetan state independent of China, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday amid reports of Chinese anger at his meeting with the Dalai Lama last year. Cameron told parliament that Britain respected China's sovereignty and ministers recognised Tibet as part of China. Britain officials deny that Chinese anger at the meeting between Cameron and the Tibetan spiritual leader in May 2012 could scupper the prime minister's plans to visit China by the end of this year.

India's foreign minister to visit China, signalling end of spat over boundary incursions

The Canadian PressMay 6, 2013 04:45
NEW DELHI - India announced Monday that its foreign minister will visit China this week as local media reported an agreement between the two Asian giants to end a three-week stand-off over their disputed Himalayan border. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid will hold discussions in Beijing on Thursday, an Indian foreign ministry statement said. The trip comes ahead of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's scheduled visit to India later this month.

Two Tibetan monks self-immolate in China

Agence France-PresseApril 25, 2013 01:30
Two Tibetan monks in southwestern China died after setting themselves on fire, a media outlet and a rights group said, the latest in a series of such protests against Beijing's rule. Lobsang Dawa and Konchog Woeser set themselves ablaze on Wednesday in Sichuan province's Aba prefecture, where many such incidents have occurred, said US-based Radio Free Asia (RFA) and Britain-based rights group Free Tibet.

Two Tibetans self-immolate in China

Agence France-PresseApril 25, 2013 01:15
Two Tibetans in southwestern China died after setting themselves on fire, rights groups said, the latest in a series of such protests against Beijing's rule. Lobsang Dawa and Konchog Woeser set themselves ablaze on Wednesday in Sichuan province's Aba prefecture, where many such incidents have occurred, said US-based Radio Free Asia (RFA) and Britain-based rights group Free Tibet. RFA said monks held prayers for the deceased, aged 20 and 23, and the bodies were due to be cremated on Thursday.

Australia university accused of bowing to China by barring Dalai Lama

April 18, 2013 04:00
By Rob Taylor CANBERRA (Reuters) - One of Australia's most exclusive universities has called off a talk to students by the Dalai Lama, prompting accusations it is bowing to China which has branded the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader a dangerous separatist. Sydney University, ranked in the world's top 50, cancelled the June visit by the Nobel Peace laureate to avoid damaging China ties, including funding for its cultural Confucius Institute, Tibetan activists and Australian lawmakers said.

Tibetans who commit suicide 'not crazy': Dalai Lama

April 11, 2013 13:32
The Dalai Lama on Thursday said during a visit to Italy that Tibetans who have committed suicide in recent weeks were "not crazy" but were taking desperate action to escape Chinese "brutality". "Tibetans who have taken their lives to escape the torture and prisons of China are not crazy," the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader told some 3,500 supporters in the city of Trento in northern Italy.

Tibet disaster shows China resource divide

April 7, 2013 00:03
A landslide that crashed down a Tibetan mountain, entombing scores of mine workers, serves as a parable on China's resources boom and its failure to benefit ethnic minorities, analysts say. The 83 workers killed in the disaster were almost all members of China's Han ethnic majority and from across the country, illustrating how minorities rarely see any of the fruits of underground wealth -- not even dangerous jobs.

Slim chance of life after Tibet mudslide buries 83

April 6, 2013 05:58
Emergency crews in Tibet slogged through pileups of earth up to 30 meters (100 feet) deep Sunday after a massive mudslide at a gold mine buried 83 workers, and authorities said chances were slim for finding any survivors. The disaster has spotlighted the extensive mining activities in the mountainous Chinese region of Tibet and sparked questions about whether mining activities have been excessive and destroyed the region’s fragile ecosystem. The workers were buried early Friday when mud, rock and debris swept through the mine in Gyama village in Maizhokunggar county and covered
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