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Dalai Lama supports a campaign to save an Edinburgh café he inspired.
After an accidental meeting with His Holiness in the Scottish Parliament in 2004, Reka Gawa, 39, launched the Himalaya Café in Edinburgh. He requested that she remain in Scotland in order to promote their culture. The café’s landlord is selling it, but Reka, who is now renting it, intends to buy it before it closes.…
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Huawei executive is greeted as a hero in China after she was released from Canada.
After reaching an agreement with US prosecutors over a bank fraud case, Meng Wanzhou was released from legal imprisonment in Canada. Meng Wanzhou, the high-profile top executive of telecom giant Huawei who was detained in Canada for over three years, received a hero’s welcome upon her arrival in Shenzhen on a special plane sent by…
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Lithuania to require its people to return their Chinese smartphones.
After a government assessment found that Chinese smartphones have built-in censorship capabilities, Lithuania’s Defense Ministry advised residents to avoid buying them. Reuters quoted Lithuanian Defence Deputy Minister Margiris Abukevicius as saying, “Our recommendation is to not buy new Chinese phones, and to get rid of those already purchased as fast as reasonably possible,”
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Tibetan youngsters must now learn Mandarin as a result of a new Chinese policy.
Beginning in the fall semester of 2021, all kindergartens in ethnic areas and rural areas that have not employed the national standard language for childcare and education activities will do so in order to provide a proper Mandarin education environment for children, according to a new Chinese law.
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Harvard doctor wants to resurrect a dead woolly mammoth.
A woolly mammoth is similar to an elephant, but with a much larger body and heavier tusks. Before extinction, these massive beasts from the same family as modern elephants roamed the Earth roughly 10,000 years ago. Scientists now want to resurrect them.
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Scientists have developed the whitest paint on the planet.
According to scientists, the world’s whitest paint was made in a Purdue University lab, a paint so white that it could eventually reduce or perhaps eliminate the need for air conditioning. The paint has now been recognized as the whitest ever created by Guinness World Records. So, why did scientists come up with this paint?…
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Oldest work of art dates back to mid-Ice Age found in Tibet
A sequence of hands and footprints uncovered on the Tibetan Plateau has been regarded as possibly the oldest work of art by an international effort. The prints are three to four times older than the famous cave paintings in Indonesia, France, and Spain, and come from the middle of the Pleistocene era, between 169,000 to…
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Interference from the capital sparred 202 Tibetan homes in D’sala from being demolished.
The Tribuneindia reported on Sep 17 that eviction and demolition orders had already been issued against 202 Tibetan dwellings in McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala, for forest encroachment, citing Sanjeev Sharma, DFO (District/Divisional Forest Officer), Dharamsala. However, thanks to the participation of the Ministry of External Affairs of the Union, Sharma noted, the question of property demolition…
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Tibetan writer dies after eight years of failing health following his release from prison.
According to RFA, a Tibetan writer who was imprisoned for three years for criticizing Chinese government policies in Tibet died this week in Chengdu, Sichuan’s capital, after suffering ill health for eight years after his release. Ra Tsering Dhondup, also known as Shinglo Marpo, was a monk at the Rongtha monastery in Khyungchu county, Sichuan’s…
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Experts from the UN question China about the fate of Two Tibetan Buddhist scholars
A group of UN specialists has questioned China regarding the disappearance of Tibetan Buddhist Scholar Go Sherab Gyatso and the arbitrary detention of Tibetan monk Rinchen Tsultrim, both of whom are Tibetan monks from Ngaba in Amdo, Eastern Tibet.