Chinese dissident tipped for Nobel Peace Prize
China might well be poised to have its first-ever Nobel Peace Prize winner this week — if bookies are to be believed — an outcome that would make history, give a huge boost to democracy advocates inside China, and enrage Beijing’s
Chinese Prime Minister calls for political reform in China
Wen Jiabao, the Chinese prime minister, has promised that China will carry out political reform and acknowledged that the need for democracy and freedom in China is “irresistible”.
Vote by proxy, a solution?
Around the globe thousands of Tibetan exiles went to the polling stations to cast their votes for the Kalon Tripa post. Participation in this election process was widely advertised by many and encouraged particularly by the masses themsel
Chinese, Japanese hold highest-level meeting since dispute broke out over islands
The Chinese and Japanese prime ministers have held an impromptu meeting at a conference in Europe amid a bitter offshore territorial dispute.
Why China isn’t fit to lead Asia
Japan may have created the impression that it buckled under China’s pressure by releasing a Chinese fishing boat captain involved in a collision near islands that both countries claim. But the Japanese action has helped move the
Tibetan man from Ngaba arrested in Chengdu
A Tibetan man from Tibet’s Ngaba region has been arrested from Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, on October 1, 2010, said Tsering, a monk at the Kirti monastery ba
Pull up your socks: Dalai Lama
Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, left Hungarians with a message of peace when he departed from Budapest last Tuesday. The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader