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Tibet’s Buddhists are being pressured by Beijing to translate classroom texts into Mandarin.
According to RFA, Chinese authorities have urged Buddhist monasteries in Tibet to translate classroom texts from Tibetan into Mandarin, China’s “common language,” in order to strengthen control over TAR(Tibet Autonomous Region). Beijing has also told monks and nuns to communicate in Chinese rather than their native tongue(Tibetan), according to Radio Free Asia. The goal of…
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Pakistan Seemingly Adopts Chinese as Official Language
In a move in the Pakistan senate on last Monday, Chinese was seemingly adopted as one of its official languages according various news reports. The motion was brought in the senate where it calls for the declaration of Mandarin, a Chinese dialect as one of the official languages in Pakistan after Urdu and English for…
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Chinese Professor Warns Western Media Tibetan Education Not Suppressed by China
A Chinese professor has claimed that Tibetan education in the country is not suppressed by China according to a report in the Global Times on Tuesday. The Chinese professor warned against the western media in making misjudgements about country’s booming bilingual education in regions like Tibet, saying that they do not know the real situation.