Search results for ‘Dalai Lama’
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Why Cameron couldn’t decouple human rights
David Cameron discussed human rights issue on the last day of his trade delegation in China. China Analyst Paul French looks at whether business has triumphed over ethics – again.
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China quake rescue continues as death toll rises
Rescuers in China’s western Qinghai province has continued searching for hundreds of people still missing, as authorities confirm at least 617 people have died in yesterday’s earthquake.
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The sensitivity behind the latest Chinese earthquake
The first tremor woke people up at 5.39am, but in this remote Tibetan region where most live at the mercy of the elements, few took much notice. Two hours later a huge earthquake, 7.1 on the Richter scale, ripped through Yushu county. According to the government, 85 per cent of houses were destroyed in the…
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‘Hundreds’ die in China earthquake
At least 400 people have been killed and more than 10,000 injured in series of strong earthquakes which hit western China’s Qinghai province.
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China attacks Google for lifting censorship
China condemns Google for its decision to lift internet censorship by shutting its mainland Chinese website and rerouting searches to Hong Kong.
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Why Obama and Hu said so little of substance
Little of substance was said at Barack Obama’s joint press conference with China’s President Hu, writes Jonathan Rugman.
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Change has come to America
Can you believe it was almost a year ago that “President Elect” Barak Obama told an ecstatic crowd in Chicago that “Change had come to America”? With less than a month to go before the first anniversary of that speech a lot of people in America are asking themselves whether much of that change has…
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Tibet: 50th anniversary of the uprising
Today is the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising against the Chinese, when the Dalai Lama was forced to flee across the mountains into India. Sorry, I’ll rephrase that after consulting today’s edition of the People’s Daily. Today is the 50th anniversary of “Democratic reform and serfs emancipation in Tibet“. The Chinese government’s lack of…
