Dec. 1 (Tibet.net): Around 1,035 Buddhists from Kalmykia, Tuva and Buriyat in addition to about 4,000 people from 54 countries attended a 3-day teachings given by His Holiness Read More
Lhasa overwhelmed with military presence
Dec. 6 (HighPeaksPureEarth/by Woeser): One afternoon, I saw around 1,000 sentries, patrolling armed police, special police forces, public security guards, bouncers, plainclothes police and so on everywhere. Walking Read More
Is the United Nations losing its credibility?
Dec. 8 (The Telegraph/by Max Wind-Cowie): The announcement that the UN’s Human Rights High Commissioner Navanethem Pillay will not be present at the Nobel Peace prize ceremony as Read More
Don’t let China be a Middle Kingdom bully
Dec. 13 (WashingtonPost/by Richard Cohen): China is recasting itself as a latter-day Middle Kingdom, not so much an epoch as a mind-set – the ethnocentric conviction that it Read More
