After 30 Years, Economic Perils on China’s Path
The ruling Communist Party threw itself a big party on Thursday. The country’s leadership marked the 30th anniversary of the reform era that transformed China into a global economic power and, in doing so
Protesting China workers in standoff with police
Police held hundreds of protesting workers inside a suitcase factory in southern China to prevent them from staging a public demonstration about a wage dispute Friday, a worker said from the compound
Taiwan: DPP asks government to grant asylum to Tibetans
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus yesterday asked the government to grant asylum to about 110 Tibetan refugees. DPP Legislator Kuan Bi-ling told a press conference that the Tibetan refugees
Sergiu Matei: Dalai Lama told me that I did a favor for humanity
He is not only the first Romanian but also the first journalist from Romania to meet the Dalai Lama. The reason is already widely known: Sergiu Matei became widely known in September 2006 when he taped the killing of Tibetans by the Chinese border guards and helped
Dharamsala Diary:The Year of the Shoe-Olympics
Dharamsala Diary has learned while ago that Chinese scholars had started sometime back to put their heads together at the fag end of every year to give it a name. 2007 was the year
China Blocks Access to The Times’s Web Site
Chinese authorities have begun blocking access from mainland China to the Web site of The New York Times even while lifting some of the restrictions they had recently imposed on the Web sites of