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» City of Berkeley hosts Tibet's Prime Minister: middle ground sought... - 02-June-2010
City of Berkeley hosts Tibet's Prime Minister: middle ground sought June 02, 2010 Tibet's Prime Minister, local citizens and Amnesty International representatives together presented the case for "middle ground" from the Chinese government.http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_15174492?source=rss&nclick_check=1   Sandhong Ripoche is encouraged after attempting nine different times since 2002 to gain constitutional safeguards for Tibet from the Chinese government.   In 1950, Tibet was invaded by the Chinese Army, who quickly won the invasion resulting in a 17 point agreement in '51 which recognized China's sovereignty over Tibet.  This latest move to have Chinese people inside and outside of China support some "middle ground" for Tibet brought the Prime Minister to Berkeley.   Ripoche states  he is encouraged because "Chinese in China are supportive of the Tibetan cause."  Though there has been failure to gain g

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» China Bans Court Evidence Gained Through Torture - 02-June-2010
China Bans Court Evidence Gained Through Torture June 02, 2010 By ANDREW JACOBS Published: May 31, 2010 BEIJING — The top judicial and law enforcement bodies in China have issued new guidelines that seek to halt the use of torture in obtaining confessions or witness testimony, especially in death penalty cases. The rules, announced Sunday, would nullify evidence gathered through violence or intimidation and give defendants the ability to challenge confessions presented during their trials. The new regulations were issued weeks after the authorities conceded that the confession used to erroneously convict a farmer for a murder was based on torture. The case came to light only after the supposed victim turned up alive and the defendant had spent 10 years in prison. It has provoked national outrage. “Judicial practice in recent years shows that slack and improper methods have been used to gather, examine and exclude evidence in various cases, especially those involving the de

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» Meet The King of Tibet - 02-June-2010
Meet The King of Tibet June 02, 2010 By Kendall Hunter | Tuesday, June 1, 2010 5:30 AM ET Namgyal Wangchuk was coronated as a Tibetan King by the 14th Dalai Lama when he was only 12 years old. Now 17 and living in exile, he tells his remarkable story in the film "My Country Is Tibet." The same night His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived at Radio City Music Hall last month, another Tibetan of extraordinary lineage —17-year-old Namgyal Wangchuck (or Trichen) was being introduced to an audience of only a few. They were gathered for the world premiere of his film, My Country is Tibet, and to meet in person the refugee with royal blood. The event, held at a private home in Manhattan, was coordinated by Holly Carter (bottom right), the film's producer and the founder of BYkids, an organization that uses the voices of youth to bring attention to global issues through documentary filmmaking. In partnership with UNICEF, and in collaboration with some of the world's best

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» Old charge resurfaces against prominent Tibetan - 02-June-2010
Old charge resurfaces against prominent Tibetan June 02, 2010 (Reuters) - A leading Tibetan collector of antiquities has been in detention nearly five months, his lawyer said Tuesday, and faces charges dating back over a decade that critics fear may be politically motivated. Karma Samdup was due to face trial Tuesday for excavating and robbing ancient tombs - a charge brought and dropped in 1998 - but lawyer Pu Zhiqiang said he arrived at the court to find the hearing was postponed indefinitely. The philanthropist was arrested in southwestern Chengdu city in early January and taken to northwestern Xinjiang region for trial as that is where the charges originated. Pu said he did not know why they had resurfaced after so long. "He really wasn't expecting it. This case was many years ago and at that time the Xinjiang police had already made a decision recognizing Karma Samdup was not guilty and the grave robbers (who were)...have already been punished," Pu said by telephone. Ar

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» Tibetan Gets Suspended Death Sentence in China - 02-June-2010
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» Worker Dies of Fatigue - 01-June-2010
An employee dies from overwork at a Chinese factory facing criticism over worker suicides. AFP Ten employees have committed suicide at Foxconn's plant in Shenzhen this year. HONG KONG—Managers at an electronics factory in southern China are trying to cover up the circumstances surrounding the death of an employee from fatigue, according to the worker's relatives.The Foxconn factory in China’s southern business hub of Shenzhen is reeling after a series of suicides that workers say have been brought on by abusive labor conditions.Foxconn, owned by Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry, saw its 10th employee suicide Wednesday, sparking calls for an investigation into its working conditions.But unknown to the public, engineer Yan Li died suddenly at his home in Shenzhen just hours after the 10th employee took his own life.Yan’s wife, surnamed Gao, said in an interview that her husband awoke early experiencing shortness of breath and died shortly after. “Before that, he had to work overtime e

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» 'Daring' North Korean Fashion - 01-June-2010
Women push sartorial boundaries in the world's last Cold War frontier. RFA A screen shot of the YouTube video “Spring Fashion for Women’s Formal Wear,” produced by the Korean Central News Agency. SEOUL—The young models wore clothing adorned with bright pink lilies, golden bells, and lapels and pockets festooned with lace, all set against blossoming trees in picturesque spring settings. White jacket and black skirt sets contrasted with traditional images of dark and drab formality that were the norm for North Korean women only a few years ago, according to North Korea's official televison. The female anchor of the cultural program “Spring Fashion for Women’s Formal Wear,” produced by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), declared au courant clothing that was “bright, [with] daring colors appropriate for the overall mood of spring.” Alongside a professor from the Pyongyang University of Fine Arts, the anchor said such vibrant colors “delight the eyes of those who see

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» Scant Cheer for China’s Children - 01-June-2010
China’s 400 million children have little to celebrate on International Children’s Day this year. AFP Chinese parents in Beijing help their babies exercise ahead of International Children's Day, May 31, 2010. HONG KONG—Many of China’s 400 million children live in “a dire situation,” commentators said, giving the nation little to celebrate on International Children’s Day. “Chinese children are the weakest group in society,” said Beijing Technical University professor Hu Xingdou, citing recent scandals involving tainted foods and drugs, heavy metal poisonings, collapsing school buildings, and violent attacks on young children. “Some children in China have been very unlucky—from the toxic milk scandal, to contaminated vaccines, to the earthquake in which a great many children died ... to the recent attacks on and killings of children.” This year’s International Children’s Day, on Tuesday, comes just days after the latest in a string of brutal attacks on children in Chinese kindergartens an

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» Youth Shot Resisting Conscription - 01-June-2010
Burma’s army has taken over a probe into how a teenage boy was killed. RFA Nyaunglaybin township, in Burma's eastern Karen state. BANGKOK—Burmese government soldiers shot and killed a 15-year-old boy in eastern Karen state when he resisted their effort to recruit him, according to residents. The military, which has ruled Burma for most of five decades, is said to have offered the boy’s parents 500,000 kyat (about U.S. $500 on the black market) to cover funeral expenses. Soldiers also warned villagers against discussing the boy’s shooting, the sources said. Tin Min Naing was out hunting for rats in rice paddies with a friend along the railroad between Nyaunglaybin and Pyontazar, when the two youths met three government troops on railroad security patrol, they said. When the soldiers threatened the two boys if they resisted, Tin Min Naing said he would never join the army and turned away. One of the soldiers then shot him, while the other boy fled and told Tin Min Naing’s parents, who in

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» Why Some Conflicts Are Ignored - 01-June-2010
Global Politician Shane Leavy 6/1/2010 People tend to think Palestine matters. Irish nationalists paint Palestinian flags onto street murals in Belfast. Spanish school children send the Israeli embassy letters demanding an end to ‘murders’ in Palestine. People with no personal connection to Palestine care deeply about events there. In politics commentators wonder aloud if the Israel-Palestine conflict could spawn others or spread out of control into a wider Middle Eastern war. Al Qaeda have already blamed American support for Israel for inspiring the 9/11 attacks, and US national security advisor James L Jones said that if President Obama were to solve just one problem it should be this conflict. Media tend to agree; The Australian newspaper devoted more coverage to Israel-Palestine than to the entire African continent in 2007. So while there is great disagreement on solutions to the Israel-Palestine conflict, there is a consensus that it is a conflict of global importance

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» Rising Social Malaise Beggars Hu's Reforms - 01-June-2010
Jamestown Foundation Publication: China Brief Volume: 10 Issue: 11 May 27, 2010 06:56 PM By: Willy Lam Beijing authorities have raised the country’s security alert to the highest level—the first time since the August 2008 Olympics Games—in the wake of a spate of killings in schools and kindergartens that left at least 27 dead and some 100 injured. Given the resources that the Ministry of Public Security (MPS), the Education Ministry and other administrative units have invested into promoting safety in school districts, it is probable that these heinous crimes will diminish over time. Yet, disturbing questions are being asked about the authorities’ handling of the brutal incidents. The issues range from severe restrictions on media coverage to the efficacy of China’s apparently seamless state-security apparatus. More significantly, the mishaps seem to demonstrate that even as socio-political contradictions are being exacerbated, members of disadvantaged cl

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» As China rises, it demands a deference we should be wary to give... - 01-June-2010
The Sydney Morning Herald Peter Hartcher June 1, 2010 Australian public opinion has made history. We have the distinction of becoming the first people in the world to name China as the world's leading economic power - even before the Chinese themselves. When the annual Lowy Institute poll asked 1000 adult Australians "which one of the following do you think is the world's leading economic power?", 3 per cent said Japan, 8 said the EU, 32 per cent said the US and 55 per cent said China. On the conventional measure, this not only makes us the first, it also makes us wildly wrong. The US and Japanese economies are both bigger than China's, based on the conventional measure - total annual economic output, or GDP. Japan, by this measure, was still one-eighth bigger than China last year and the US was a towering three times as large as China. This year or next China will probably eclipse Japan, but it's still decades away from matching the US, even assuming that China can continue its curre

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» Chinese Analyses of Soviet Failure: Humanitarian Socialism - 01-June-2010
Publication: China Brief Volume: 10 Issue: 11 May 27, 2010 07:07 PM By: Arthur Waldron The first essay in this occasional series showed the extent to which official Chinese explanations of the disintegration of the Soviet Union stress the failure of the Communist party there to maintain a comprehensive dictatorship. The assumption behind this argument is that if the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) avoids the sorts of attempts at change made by Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) and Mikhail Gorbachev (1931- ) and adheres more to the wrongly-maligned model of dictatorship of Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), then its rule can be secured indefinitely. In particular, we noted that official Chinese analysts reject the idea that deeper social causes had anything to do with the Soviet disintegration. The official Chinese position is that the Soviet system was fundamentally stable, but that the Soviet president brought it down by making ultimately fatal changes in an attempt to make the system "humane." Wh

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» China: End June 1989 Massacre Denial, Free Dissidents - 01-June-2010
For Immediate Release    China: End June 1989 Massacre Denial, Free Dissidents  Two Decades Later, Demands for Human Rights Still Suppressed    (New York, June 1, 2010) – The Chinese government should admit to the massacre of unarmed civilians in June 1989, release the estimated 20 Tiananmen-era prisoners improperly arrested and convicted at that time, and free other government critics jailed for exercising their right to freedom of expression, Human Rights Watch said today.  More than two decades after Chinese army troops initiated a massacre of an estimated 2,000 unarmed people around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and other Chinese cities on and after June 3-4, 1989, some Chinese citizens continue to be persecuted for advocating support for universal human rights and freedoms.  “Not only has the Chinese government wholly failed to account for the June 1989 killings,” said Sophie Richardson, Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch, “but civil society a

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» Poll Shows Australians Wary of China's Military, But Value Economic Ties... - 01-June-2010
VOA Phil Mercer | Sydney 01 June 2010 A new study shows that Australians are nervous about China's military expansion, but they see its economic growth as a positive development. Fears about Beijing's military plans, however, are prompting strong support for Australia's alliance with the United States. Most respondents to the poll, conducted by the Lowy Institute, think that China's voracious appetite for Australia's natural resources, most notably iron ore, is welcome.  However the survey shows there are worries about the prospect of the Chinese controlling key economic assets. There is also deep concern about Beijing's military might. The Lowy poll, released this week, indicates much anxiety in Australia about China's long-term military ambitions, and those fears continue to convince the population that Canberra's alliance with the United States remains important. "We've seen, for example, 69 percent of people saying that China's aim is to dominate Asia," said Fergus Hanson of the L

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» As China rises, it demands a deference we should be wary to give... - 01-June-2010
The Sydney Morning HeraldPeter HartcherJune 1, 2010 Australian public opinion has made history. We have the distinction of becoming the first people in the world to name China as the world's leading economic power - even before the Chinese themselves. When the annual Lowy Institute poll asked 1000 adult Australians "which one of the following do you think is the world's leading economic power?", 3 per cent said Japan, 8 said the EU, 32 per cent said the US and 55 per cent said China. On the conventional measure, this not only makes us the first, it also makes us wildly wrong. The US and Japanese economies are both bigger than China's, based on the conventional measure - total annual economic output, or GDP. Japan, by this measure, was still one-eighth bigger than China last year and the US was a towering three times as large as China. This year or next China will probably eclipse Japan, but it's still decades away from matching the US, even assuming that China can continue its current

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» Poll Shows Australians Wary of China's Military, But Value Economic Ties... - 01-June-2010
VOAPhil Mercer | Sydney01 June 2010 A new study shows that Australians are nervous about China's military expansion, but they see its economic growth as a positive development. Fears about Beijing's military plans, however, are prompting strong support for Australia's alliance with the United States. Most respondents to the poll, conducted by the Lowy Institute, think that China's voracious appetite for Australia's natural resources, most notably iron ore, is welcome.  However the survey shows there are worries about the prospect of the Chinese controlling key economic assets. There is also deep concern about Beijing's military might. The Lowy poll, released this week, indicates much anxiety in Australia about China's long-term military ambitions, and those fears continue to convince the population that Canberra's alliance with the United States remains important. "We've seen, for example, 69 percent of people saying that China's aim is to dominate Asia," said Fergus Hanson of the Low

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» Why Some Conflicts Are Ignored - 01-June-2010
Global PoliticianShane Leavy6/1/2010 People tend to think Palestine matters. Irish nationalists paint Palestinian flags onto street murals in Belfast. Spanish school children send the Israeli embassy letters demanding an end to ‘murders’ in Palestine. People with no personal connection to Palestine care deeply about events there. In politics commentators wonder aloud if the Israel-Palestine conflict could spawn others or spread out of control into a wider Middle Eastern war. Al Qaeda have already blamed American support for Israel for inspiring the 9/11 attacks, and US national security advisor James L Jones said that if President Obama were to solve just one problem it should be this conflict. Media tend to agree; The Australian newspaper devoted more coverage to Israel-Palestine than to the entire African continent in 2007. So while there is great disagreement on solutions to the Israel-Palestine conflict, there is a consensus that it is a conflict of global importance.

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» China: End June 1989 Massacre Denial, Free Dissidents - 01-June-2010
For Immediate Release   China: End June 1989 Massacre Denial, Free Dissidents Two Decades Later, Demands for Human Rights Still Suppressed   (New York, June 1, 2010) – The Chinese government should admit to the massacre of unarmed civilians in June 1989, release the estimated 20 Tiananmen-era prisoners improperly arrested and convicted at that time, and free other government critics jailed for exercising their right to freedom of expression, Human Rights Watch said today.  More than two decades after Chinese army troops initiated a massacre of an estimated 2,000 unarmed people around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and other Chinese cities on and after June 3-4, 1989, some Chinese citizens continue to be persecuted for advocating support for universal human rights and freedoms.  “Not only has the Chinese government wholly failed to account for the June 1989 killings,” said Sophie Richardson, Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch, “but civil society advo

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» Chinese Analyses of Soviet Failure: Humanitarian Socialism - 01-June-2010
Publication: China Brief Volume: 10 Issue: 11May 27, 2010 07:07 PMBy: Arthur Waldron The first essay in this occasional series showed the extent to which official Chinese explanations of the disintegration of the Soviet Union stress the failure of the Communist party there to maintain a comprehensive dictatorship. The assumption behind this argument is that if the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) avoids the sorts of attempts at change made by Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) and Mikhail Gorbachev (1931- ) and adheres more to the wrongly-maligned model of dictatorship of Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), then its rule can be secured indefinitely. In particular, we noted that official Chinese analysts reject the idea that deeper social causes had anything to do with the Soviet disintegration. The official Chinese position is that the Soviet system was fundamentally stable, but that the Soviet president brought it down by making ultimately fatal changes in an attempt to make the system "humane." What

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» Rising Social Malaise Beggars Hu's Reforms - 01-June-2010
Jamestown FoundationPublication: China Brief Volume: 10 Issue: 11May 27, 2010 06:56 PMBy: Willy Lam Beijing authorities have raised the country’s security alert to the highest level—the first time since the August 2008 Olympics Games—in the wake of a spate of killings in schools and kindergartens that left at least 27 dead and some 100 injured. Given the resources that the Ministry of Public Security (MPS), the Education Ministry and other administrative units have invested into promoting safety in school districts, it is probable that these heinous crimes will diminish over time. Yet, disturbing questions are being asked about the authorities’ handling of the brutal incidents. The issues range from severe restrictions on media coverage to the efficacy of China’s apparently seamless state-security apparatus. More significantly, the mishaps seem to demonstrate that even as socio-political contradictions are being exacerbated, members of disadvantaged class

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Uyghur News / Radio Free Asia English

» Surveillance in Lhasa Hotels - 31-May-2010
All guests registering at Lhasa hotels and guesthouses will have their details stored in a police database, and their movements monitored by staff. Online publicity photo Small, family-run guesthouses such as this could be hit by new security rules in Lhasa. HONG KONG—Hotels in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, are being forced to install electronic surveillance equipment amid an ongoing security clampdown in the city, industry sources said. Under a new set of police regulations, hotels and guesthouses in the Himalayan city will be required to install electronic identity card readers and closed circuit television cameras to monitor guests. “We have had all [the equipment] intalled here,” said the owner of one Lhasa guesthouse. “We had to do this, because if we hadn't, the Lhasa municipal police [could]refuse to issue us with our business license.” “We now have monitoring equipment, a second-generation identity card reader, and a social information database system installed here.” He said the

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» Independence on the big screens - 31-May-2010
The Sydney Morning Herald PHILIPPA HAWKER May 28, 2010 THE Melbourne International Film Festival has released a sneak preview of this year's program and, yes, there are films from China on the list. Last year, MIFF incurred the wrath of Chinese authorities because it screened a film about Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer, who was also a festival guest. Chinese films were withdrawn from the program, the MIFF website was hacked and the story was reported around the world. This meant, says executive director Richard Moore, that the festival 'emerged with a reputation for taking an independent stand', and, he says, it will do so again. Two of the Chinese titles in MIFF 2010 are City of Life and Death, a film about the Japanese invasion of Nanjing, and Love in a Puff, a romantic comedy about smoking. But MIFF will also screen Petition, a powerful documentary that was to have been part of last year's festival. It is a devastating critique of the operation of petitioning - a Chinese extra-judic

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Uyghur News / Uyghur Human Rights Project

» Independence on the big screens - 31-May-2010
The Sydney Morning HeraldPHILIPPA HAWKERMay 28, 2010THE Melbourne International Film Festival has released a sneak preview of this year's program and, yes, there are films from China on the list. Last year, MIFF incurred the wrath of Chinese authorities because it screened a film about Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer, who was also a festival guest. Chinese films were withdrawn from the program, the MIFF website was hacked and the story was reported around the world. This meant, says executive director Richard Moore, that the festival 'emerged with a reputation for taking an independent stand', and, he says, it will do so again. Two of the Chinese titles in MIFF 2010 are City of Life and Death, a film about the Japanese invasion of Nanjing, and Love in a Puff, a romantic comedy about smoking. But MIFF will also screen Petition, a powerful documentary that was to have been part of last year's festival. It is a devastating critique of the operation of petitioning - a Chinese extra-judicial

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Uyghur News / Uyghur American Association

» Watchdog: Nations getting away with murder - 30-May-2010
MSNBC Updated 8:23 p.m. ET, Wed., May 26, 2010 A woman holds onto a Chinese policeman as a crowd of locals confront security forces along a street in the city of Urumqi, in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region. Amnesty International cites China's bloody crackdown on the Uighur protests as an example of human rights abuses in 2009.LONDON - From Iran’s repressive crackdown on anti-government demonstrators to China’s bloody suppression of minority Uighurs, millions of people’s lives across the world continued to be torn apart last year by repression, violence, discrimination and death, Amnesty International says. The London-based watchdog activist organization’s annual report on the state of human rights in 2009 found a web of repression, as governments failed to prosecute rights violations worldwide. The report, released Wednesday, says millions face abuse while their tormenters flout justice. Amnesty International called on governments to ensure accountability for

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Uyghur News / World Tibet News

» Dalai Lama & the Russian Card - 30-May-2010
Dalai Lama & the Russian Card May 30, 2010 Moscow As Mediator Between China And The Tibetan Spiritual Leader 28 May 2010, Special Article,  The Statesman Claude Arpi Startling news often goes unnoticed amidst the daily diet of glamorous cricket. As happened on 13 May when Novosti, the Russian state-owned news agency, quoted the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov: "Russia is ready to help settle the conflict between China and the Tibetan spiritual leader, Dalai Lama".  During a speech in the Federation Council, Russia's Upper House of Parliament, Lavrov said that Moscow supports the development of inter-religious and inter-confessional ties, though it is "against aspects of religion that have been distorted into politics". And then, the news: "We are following carefully what is happening between the leadership of China and the Dalai Lama and we know that the Chinese leadership is deeply committed to the Dalai Lama dissociating himself from any ki

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» Tibetan leader appeals to Bay Area Asian community for support... - 30-May-2010
Tibetan leader appeals to Bay Area Asian community for support May 30, 2010 By Doug Oakley Berkeley Voice Updated: 05/27/2010 12:56:01 PM PDT El Cerrito City Councilwoman Ann Cheng is just the kind of local Chinese-American politician the Dalai Lama wants to win over in his struggle for an autonomous Tibetan region within China. That's according to the prime minister and speaker of the Tibetan parliament in exile who gave a wide ranging talk about Tibet issues in a city of Berkeley conference room on Tuesday. In addition to continuing dialogue with the Chinese government, Tibetan officials are turning to Chinese people inside and outside of China to press their case, the two leaders said. Cheng, who attended the meeting with a number of city, state and federal politicians or their representatives and members of Amnesty International from San Francisco, said she is open to that idea. "As a Chinese American, I'm very sensitive to the struggles of the Tibetan people," she said.

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» 'China has no plans to build dam over Brahmaputra in Tibet'... - 30-May-2010
'China has no plans to build dam over Brahmaputra in Tibet' May 30, 2010 27 May 2010, 0339 hrs IST,ET Bureau NEW DELHI: China has no plans to build a huge dam over Brahmaputra in Tibet and is sensitive to Indian concerns on the matter, according to a senior academician of a Chinese state-run think tank. A report in The Guardian had maintained that experts were lobbying the Chinese government to construct a massive dam on the Brahmaputra. ?China has no plans to build such a huge dam on the Brahmaputra,? Ma Jiali, who is attached to state-run Institute of Contemporary International Relations, told a news agency. This is in sync with China's assurance to India that the dam it is building on the Tsang Po ? the name by which the Brahmaputra is known in China ? for generating power would not affect the flow of Brahmaputra. But the report in The Guardian maintained that one proposal was for a 38 billion watt hydropower dam at the great bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo. ?Research had been carried

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» China rakes up Dalai Lama, Tibet with Pratibha Patil - 30-May-2010
China rakes up Dalai Lama, Tibet with Pratibha Patil May 30, 2010 Priyanka Tikoo / PTI Friday, May 28, 2010 21:13   China today raised the question of the "activities" of the Dalai Lama with president Pratibha Patil and sought reiteration of India's stand that Tibet is a part of China, striking a somewhat discordant note in Patil's discussions, which have otherwise been described as "fruitful". Jia Qinglin, who chairs the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and is ranked fourth in the leadership hierarchy, brought up these issues during his meeting with Patil, a day after her talks with president Hu Jintao and premier Wen Jiabao, at which no such issue was raised. Playing down the episode, foreign secretary Nirupama Rao said the Chinese had sought reiteration of India's stand on Tibet and an assurance that anti-China activities are not permitted on Indian soil. "It often happens that in the course of discussions between India a

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» Tibetan poet, writer and blogger Woeser's Skype IDs Hacked... - 30-May-2010
Tibetan poet, writer and blogger Woeser's Skype IDs Hacked May 30, 2010 from High Peaks Pure Earth Tibetan poet, writer and blogger Woeser has reported on both her Twitter page and her blog that her two Skype IDs have been hacked. Yesterday, May 28, 2010, Woeser tweeted the following: Both my Skype IDs (boluoma+esse.wei777) have been hacked. Friends who need to contact me please use voice, don't trust chat or accept files. Today on her blog, Woeser explains that not only have hackers been impersonating Tibetans to contact her on Skype and try to send her infected files, her Skype has also been contacting her friends to send them infected files. Below is a screenshot of a hacker impersonating "Thubten (Sam) Samdup" trying to send her file: In her blogpost, Woeser writes that she was out all day and not online on May 28, 2010. However, her Skype ID was contacting her friends. Below is a translation of a Skype chat between a hacker impersonating Woeser using her Skype ID "

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» Dharamsala Condemns Tibet Sentences, Urges China for Magnanimity... - 30-May-2010
Dharamsala Condemns Tibet Sentences, Urges China for Magnanimity May 30, 2010 The Central Tibetan Administration is deeply concerned that the Chinese government has once again handed down a death sentence to one Tibetan and lengthy prison terms to five other Tibetans. According to China's state media, the Lhasa Intermediate People's Court has sentenced Sonam Tsering, aged 23, a native of Rachap Township, Payul County in Kardze, to a two-year suspended death sentence for his alleged role in ?rioting? during the Tibetan people's peaceful demonstration in 2008 against five decades of Chinese repression in Tibet.  Five more Tibetans -  Tashi Choedon, Kelyon, Yeshi Tsomo, Tayang, Tsewang Gyurmey - have been given lenthy jail terms ranging from 3 to 7 years for harbouring Sonam Tsering. We strongly condemn the harsh sentences arbitrarily meted out to Sonam Tsering without truely conducting an open and fair trial. The recent verdict is against the spirit of China's first national h

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» At a Tibetan precipice: With the Dalai Lama nearly 75, what happens after he dies?... - 30-May-2010
At a Tibetan precipice: With the Dalai Lama nearly 75, what happens after he dies? May 30, 2010 TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press Writer 9:08 AM PDT, May 29, 2010 DHARMSALA, India (AP) — The question looms over this raggedy hillside town, a place where ancient mysticism constantly brushes against the realities of modern geopolitics. The monks who fled across the Himalayas ask it quietly, as do the exile politicians. Even the angry young activists are careful how they raise the issue. But as the man at the center of the Tibetan exile movement approaches his 75th birthday, the question has become impossible to escape: What happens after the Dalai Lama dies? The issue echoes far from Dharmsala, the Dalai Lama's home since he fled Tibet after a failed 1959 uprising against Chinese rule. It ranges from policy decisions in Beijing to widespread fears inside Tibet and among the 150,000 exiles that their struggle for autonomy may collapse with the death of their icon. It is something he thi

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» Tibetan gets suspended death sentence for riots - 30-May-2010
Tibetan gets suspended death sentence for riots May 30, 2010 (AP) ? May 27, 2010 BEIJING ? A court in Lhasa has given a Tibetan a suspended death sentence for taking part in riots that erupted in the remote Himalayan region two years ago, an overseas Tibetan rights group said. The Dharamsala, India-based Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy said in a statement late Wednesday that the Lhasa Intermediate People's Court sentenced Sonam Tsering, 23, to death with a two-year reprieve on Tuesday. Such sentences are usually commuted to life in prison. It said Sonam Tsering is the seventh Tibetan so far to be sentenced to death for the riots, including two already executed. Rioting that broke out in Lhasa on March 14, 2008, left 22 people dead and led to the most sustained Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule in decades. Beijing says the demonstrations were part of a violent campaign organized by the Dalai Lama and his supporters to throw off Chinese rule in Tibet and sabotage the B

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» China draws Tibet, Taiwan line in strategic dialogue with US - 30-May-2010
China draws Tibet, Taiwan line in strategic dialogue with US May 30, 2010 (TibetanReview.net, May27, 2010) The United States must respect China's core interests and major concerns, and pay particular attention to handling sensitive issues such as those regarding Taiwan and Tibet. This was one of the seven proposals China made at the second round of China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogues (S&ED) held in Beijing on May 24-25, reported China's official Xinhua news agency May 24, citing Ma Zhaoxu, spokesman of the Chinese delegation attending the strategic track of S&ED. It was the second round of the much-publicized S&ED dialogue which opened in Beijing on May 24 morning, attended by 50 representatives from more than 40 departments of the two countries. President Hu's special representatives, Vice Premier Wang Qishan and State Councilor Dai Bingguo, co-chaired the economic and strategic tracks of the SE&D with US President Barack Obama's special representatives, Treasur

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» Lhasa Court sentences one Tibetan to death and five to lengthy prison terms... - 30-May-2010
Lhasa Court sentences one Tibetan to death and five to lengthy prison terms May 30, 2010 TCHRD, May 26, 2010 Lhasa Intermediate People's Court sentenced a Tibetan, Sonam Tsering, to death with two years reprieve and five other Tibetans to lengthy imprisonment terms between 3 to 7 years in prison for secretly hiding him from the law enforcement agencies. On 25 May 2010 the Lhasa Intermediate People's Court sentenced Sonam Tsering to death with two years reprieve under article 289 and 263  and the other five Tibetans ( Tashi Choedon, Kelyon, Yeshi Tsomo, Tayang, Tsewang Gyurmey) to imprisonment terms between 3 to 7 years under Article 310 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China according to Lhasa Evening News (http://www.lasa-eveningnews.com.cn/epaper/uniflows/html/2010/05/25/02/02_41.htm). The official media reported that Sonam was charged of rioting and inciting the public to riot on 14 March 2008. He undertook leadership role in inciting hundreds of people in rioti

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» Out-of-Context Quotes Used to Smear Dalai Lama - 30-May-2010
Out-of-Context Quotes Used to Smear Dalai Lama May 30, 2010 Barbara's Buddhism Blog By Barbara O'Brien, About.com Guide to Buddhism Saturday May 22, 2010 A website called IndianExpress.com put together a brief news story on His Holiness the Dalai Lama's press conference on Thursday that took some quotes out of context to distort what His Holiness actually said. And today some American right-wing and conservative Christian bloggers are using this story to smear His Holiness. The IndianExpress story cherry-picked His Holiness' words and re-assembled them to make it sound as if he supports the current Chinese Communist Party and the way it has governed China. Some American bloggers seized these words and used them as an excuse to hurl ugly invectives at His Holiness and anyone who supports him. Since I was there, I can set the record straight. At the press conference, held in a basement-level room in Radio City Music Hall, I was in the middle of the assembled reporters and photographers,

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» Chinese engineers propose world's biggest hydro-electric project in Tibet... - 30-May-2010
Chinese engineers propose world's biggest hydro-electric project in Tibet May 30, 2010 Mega-dam on Yarlung Tsangpo river would save 200m tonnes of CO2 but could spark conflict over downstream water supply * Jonathan Watts, Asia environment correspondent * www.guardian.co.uk, Monday 24 May 2010 16.00 BST Chinese hydropower lobbyists are calling for construction of the world's biggest hydro-electric project on the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra river as part of a huge expansion of renewable power in the Himalayas. Zhang Boting, the deputy general secretary of the China Society for Hydropower Engineering, told the Guardian that a massive dam on the great bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo - the Tibetan name for the river - would benefit the world, despite the likely concerns of downstream nations, India and Bangladesh, which access water and power from the river. Zhang said research had been carried out on the project, but no plan has been drawn up. But documents on the website of a governmen

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» CHINA - TIBET Direct, uncensored dialogue between the Dalai Lama and Chinese netizens... - 30-May-2010
CHINA - TIBET Direct, uncensored dialogue between the Dalai Lama and Chinese netizens May 30, 2010 The dialogue on dissident writer Wang Lixiong's Twitter page was a great success. For an hour, the Dalai Lama answered questions sent by Chinese netizens, his first direct contact with the Chinese people after decades of censorship. Netizens were eager to share. Tuesday, May 25, 2010 By Asia News  Hong Kong ? Thousands of Chinese netizens put questions online to exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in an unprecedented dialogue on Twitter last Friday. US-based Chinese dissident writer Wang Lixiong moderated the dialogue from New York. In mainland China, Twitter is blocked but every day tens of thousands of Chinese netizens skirt the government's firewall and link up to the micro-blogging service. This is the first time that the Dalai Lama was able to speak directly to ordinary Chinese citizens, bypassing the authorities who describe him as a dangerous terrorist, responsible

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» Dalai Lama, Karmapa lead Buddha Purnima celebrations in India... - 30-May-2010
Dalai Lama, Karmapa lead Buddha Purnima celebrations in India May 30, 2010 2010-05-27 17:50:00 New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) Thousands of Buddhists from all over the world, including the Dalai Lama and the Karmapa, Thursday led the Buddha Purnima celebrations in India that was attended by hundreds of monks from as far as Tibet and Nepal. The Dalai Lama, leader of the Tibetan community, inaugurated a sprawling 22-acre park in Patna to commemorate Lord Buddha's 2,554th birth anniversary that is celebrated as Buddha Purnima. It is the most sacred day for Buddhists as it not just marks the birth anniversary, but also enlightenment and passing to final Nirvana of Lord Buddha. The inauguration of the Rs.125-crore Buddha Smriti (memorial) Park was attended by delegations from four predominantly Buddhist countries - Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Japan and Thailand. The foreign delegations brought consecrated Buddha urns and gifts that were kept at the memorial park by the Dalai Lama. He also planted a sapli

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» In last appearance in NYC, Dalai Lama discusses meaning of kinship... - 30-May-2010
In last appearance in NYC, Dalai Lama discusses meaning of kinship May 30, 2010 By Karen Matthews (CP) ? May 24, 2010 NEW YORK, N.Y. ? The Dalai Lama said Sunday that the U.S.-led war in Iraq could perhaps have been avoided through negotiations with Saddam Hussein. Responding to a question about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the exiled leader of Tibetan Buddhists said that Hussein was "not such a foolish person. War with America. He can't win." The Dalai Lama has criticized the Iraq war effort in the past. He did not offer any solutions to continued violence there. "Now, I don't know," he said. The Nobel Prize winner appeared at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine after wrapping up four days of teaching at Radio City Music Hall. Nearly 2,000 people, including actors Richard Gere and Naomi Watts, filled the cavernous Gothic cathedral to hear the man whom followers believe to be the reincarnation of his predecessors. Billed as a panel discussion on "Kinship

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» "Changing" China fuels Tibet hope - 30-May-2010
"Changing" China fuels Tibet hope May 30, 2010 OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, Calcutta Telegraph Patna, May 27: The Dalai Lama today hoped that the Tibetan issue would be resolved in the near future with China adhering to ?liberal values? and a section of its leaders and academics taking up cudgels for Tibetans."Over 1,000 leaders, academics and writers have come forward to support the cause of Tibetans, suffering atrocities and slavery. Liberal values are taking roots in erstwhile orthodox China and the phenomenon of change should help resolve the over-five-decade-old issue,? the Tibetan spiritual leader said. He added that China was historically and spiritually a Buddhist country as there are over 200 million people practising Buddhism. ?China has more Buddhists than India. But it should regard India as its spiritual guru because India is the land of Lord Buddha." The spiritual leader was speaking to the media after the inauguration of Buddha memorial park, which he named Pata

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» 14 Held in China Brawl - 29-May-2010
Residents report a new clash between Han Chinese and ethnic minority Uyghurs in Tianjin. RFA Police in Tianjin have detained 14 Han Chinese migrant workers who allegedly attacked and destroyed a Uyghur-owned restaurant. HONG KONG—Police in the eastern Chinese city of Tianjin have detained 14 Han Chinese migrant workers who allegedly attacked and destroyed a Uyghur-owned restaurant, witnesses said. The restaurant was destroyed after a fight erupted between two groups of Han Chinese, who make up the majority of China's population, they said. Witnesses who asked not to be named said that after the fight quieted down, the brawlers returned with some 30 more Han men and attacked the restaurant with stones from a nearby construction site. “We have six workers in this restaurant and four were injured badly. Their heads were cracked and swollen,” a Uyghur restaurant employee said. “The police told us they detained 14 of the attackers. They told us the damages will be compensated for and asked

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» Court to Guantánamo Uighurs: Accept resettlement or stay in prison... - 29-May-2010
The Christian Science Monitor By Warren Richey, Staff writer May 28, 2010 A federal appeals court in Washington delivered a terse message on Friday to five Chinese ethnic Uighurs long held at the terror prison camp at Guantanamo Bay: Accept the US offer to resettle in a third country or stay at Guantánamo. In a five-page ruling, the appeals court panel said that each of the five Uighur detainees had received and rejected three offers of resettlement from countries the government had deemed appropriate. Instead, the detainees pursued litigation seeking their transfer to the United States. A federal judge had earlier ruled that the Uighurs could not be lawfully held at Guantánamo as enemy combatants. When government efforts to find suitable countries for resettlement bogged down, the judge ordered the government to bring the Uighurs to the United States, pending their resettlement. The government responded by appealing that decision and by continuing efforts to find third

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» Court to Guantánamo Uighurs: Accept resettlement or stay in prison... - 29-May-2010
The Christian Science MonitorBy Warren Richey, Staff writerMay 28, 2010 A federal appeals court in Washington delivered a terse message on Friday to five Chinese ethnic Uighurs long held at the terror prison camp at Guantanamo Bay: Accept the US offer to resettle in a third country or stay at Guantánamo. In a five-page ruling, the appeals court panel said that each of the five Uighur detainees had received and rejected three offers of resettlement from countries the government had deemed appropriate. Instead, the detainees pursued litigation seeking their transfer to the United States. A federal judge had earlier ruled that the Uighurs could not be lawfully held at Guantánamo as enemy combatants. When government efforts to find suitable countries for resettlement bogged down, the judge ordered the government to bring the Uighurs to the United States, pending their resettlement. The government responded by appealing that decision and by continuing efforts to find third co

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» China Eyes Export Trade-Off - 28-May-2010
China is seeking eased curbs on sensitive U.S. exports before it revalues its currency, but experts say a trade-off would be unacceptable. AFP Chinese President Hu Jintao (C) speaks during the US-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue in Beijing, May 24, 2010. BOSTON—China has been pressing the United States for greater access to high-tech goods before it loosens controls on its undervalued currency, experts say.The two issues ranked high on the agenda at the May 24-25 meeting of the U.S.-China Security and Economic Dialogue (SED) in Beijing, although the talks produced little progress on either of the long-standing concerns.For years, Beijing has urged Washington to ease curbs on sales of high-tech items to China, while the United States has been equally persistent in seeking revaluation of the yuan to reduce its trade deficit.But recently, Chinese official comments and reports have been more openly suggesting a trade-off of currency controls for export controls."I don't have much do

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» Factory Suicides Spark Worry - 28-May-2010
High-tech giants pledge to probe conditions at a factory plagued by suicides. AFP Workers inspect motherboards on a factory line at the Foxconn plant in Shenzen, May 26, 2010. HONG KONG—A Taiwan-owned factory in China that supplies electronics to some of the world's biggest companies has announced a pay raise for staff after 12 of its employees attempted suicide, sparking calls for an investigation into its working conditions. Foxconn, which saw its 13th suicide bid by an employee who slashed his wrists Thursday, announced the next day a 20 percent rise in salaries at its China plants. An employee who answered the phone at the Shenzhen municipal police department declined to comment on the latest incident. "We don't know the actual details here in the duty office," the employee said. "I can't answer your questions because I don't understand the situation." Requests to Foxconn for an interview were declined, with an employee saying that journalists must first undergo an application proc

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» Amnesty report slams global abuses - 28-May-2010
Aljazeera UPDATED ON: Thursday, May 27, 2010 20:57 Mecca time, 17:57 GMT Amnesty International has accused the United States, Russia and China of ignoring human rights violations by allies and failing to open their own records to scrutiny in its annual survey. The human rights organisation took Washington to task for the failure of Barack Obama, the US president, to close its prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba despite promising to do so. It also criticised Russia and China for what it described as blocking international scrutiny of the Sri Lankan government's conduct during its bloody conflict with Tamil fighters. "Our report shows that powerful states hold themselves above the law and protect their allies, so justice is only served when expedient," said Claudio Cordone, interim secretary general of the organisation. Obama missed his self-imposed deadline to close Guantanamo in January and has not offered a new deadline. Francis Perrin, vice president of Amnesty International Franc

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» New Details on Arrests - 28-May-2010
RFA 2010-05-26 HONG KONG—New accounts detailing the detention of ethnic Uyghurs in northwest China in the wake of deadly unrest show how authorities have targeted members of the mostly Muslim minority, keeping them in custody without access to family and often without indicating when they might be tried or freed. The detentions, near Ghulja [in Chinese, Yining] in China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), involved several members of three Uyghur families on charges of separatism and religious extremism. The first detention occurred on July 7, 2009, and involved four adult children from the same family in Bulaq Dadamtu village in Dadamtu township. The family’s patriarch, Turghan Polat, said his children have been imprisoned since then. “The authorities arrested my daughter because they claimed she taught religious classes to other women in my neighborhood. My other kids were arrested because they were reading some kinds of [religious] books.

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» No regrets, now an award for film festival - 28-May-2010
The Sydney Morning Herald May 28, 2010 THE Melbourne International Film Festival will be honoured with Liberty Victoria's free speech award - the Voltaire award - in recognition of its refusal to buckle in the face of intense pressure from a foreign government and a left-wing filmmaker last year. The Chinese government last year tried to pressure festival organisers to withdraw the documentary The 10 Conditions of Love, about the Uighur independence leader Rebiya Kadeer. Hackers, believed to be from China, crashed the online booking system and created havoc at the box office, but the festival proceeded with two sold-out screenings and a public appearance by Ms Kadeer, with heavily increased security. The second assault came from left-wing English filmmaker Ken Loach, traditionally a festival favourite. Loach withdrew his feature film Looking for Eric over claims the festival was complicit in crimes against the Palestinians because it had accepted financial assistance from the Israeli

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» China Announces Development Plan for Restive Region - 28-May-2010
The New York Times May 28, 2010 By EDWARD WONG BEIJING — The new leader of the restive region of Xinjiang in western China has announced a series of economic measures to bolster confidence in the regional government, which was widely criticized by ordinary citizens after deadly ethnic rioting there last summer. Stability is a top priority for Chinese authorities, and the new measures are intended to help reach that goal by improving livelihoods and living conditions, according to a report on Friday in China Daily, an official English-language newspaper. Over the last year, Xinjiang has emerged as a prominent weak spot in the system of Chinese authoritarian control, with ethnic tensions at a constant boil. Earlier this month, the central government held a high-level policy conference on Xinjiang and announced new steps to invigorate the regional economy and, in the words of Chinese officials, ensure “leapfrog development and lasting stability.” The announcement on Thu

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