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Tibetan monk’s health has deteriorated since his early release from a 15-year prison sentence.
Thabgey Gyatso was sentenced to 12 years in prison for leading protests in Lhasa in 2008, during which time he was subjected to physical torture. Gyatso, a Sangchu county citizen, was detained during protests in Lhasa in 2008 and convicted to 15 years in prison on May 21, 2009, for leading demonstrators and contacting India-based…
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Members of the UN have urged China to respect human rights in Tibet.
The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) said on Tuesday that a group of UN member nations has called on China to uphold human rights in Tibet during the UN Human Rights Council’s 48th session. According to a CTA post, delegates from Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States, and the European Union (EU) have…
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China’s crackdown continues, with conglomerate executives being arrested
According to a media report, China is intensifying its crackdown on the country’s top corporate heavyweights, having recently arrested two executives from the famed HNA Group. According to the New York Post, Chen Feng, HNA’s chairman, and Tan Xiangdong, the company’s CEO, were arrested and brought into jail on Friday in Hainan Province, where HNA…
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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…