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Dharamsala, Feb 10 : The Regional Tibetan Youth Congress (RTYC), a global forum of the Tibetan community has urged upon fellow Tibetans around the world not to celebrate Losar, their New Year as a mark of solidarity against Chinese atrocities in their homeland.
&$ &$Jackie Chan befriends a tiger in a new tiger conservation campaign. &$ &$ As the Year of the Tiger approaches, conservationists are using the occasion to highlight increasing concerns of China's dwindling tiger population, issuing calls to protect tigers in the wild and ramping up efforts to save the endangered species. A series of public service announcements (PSA) were unveiled Friday ...
&$ &$Zhou Yongkang (R), a Standing Committee member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, meets with Nepalese Minister of Home Affairs Bhim Bahadur Rawal in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 8, 2010.(Xinhua/Ju Peng)&$ &$ A senior official with the Communist Party of China (CPC), Zhou Yongkang, proposed stronger law-enforcement cooperation between China ...
China has an estimated 50 or fewer tigers left living in the wild, but efforts to stabilize one population in the bleak northeast are starting to pay off, a conservationist says
"From the perspective of Chinese Communist Party ideology, China was a victim of Western imperialism from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, and, as a result, the Chinese tend to remember the humiliations they suffered while rarely considering their own nation to be an imperial power."
Dharamsala, February 10 – Despite a “widespread” consensus in Tibet to avoid any festivity this Tibetan New Year the Chinese authorities in Tibet’s Lithang County are handing out Tibetans with cash rewards of ten thousand to thirty thousand Yuan (4400 US Dollar approx.) for the celebration of the Tibetan New Year, reported the Voice of Tibet radio service Tuesday.
China has been observing a sharp dwindling in its wild tiger population, with fewer than 50 now believed to remain in the country, conservationists said Monday, days before the Chinese lunar new year of the Tiger, which starts Sunday. About 15 Bengal tigers live in Tibet, 10 Indochinese tigers are in southwestern Yunnan Province, and around 20 Siberian tigers are in the northeast, Xie Yan ...
ASHEVILLE — Manoj Lama, who has worked almost every job in a restaurant, had just been waiting for the right time to open a restaurant of his own.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just a week after enraging China with an arms sale package for rival Taiwan, President Barack Obama risks more damage to this crucial relationship by agreeing to meet with the Dalai Lama in two weeks.
BEIJING - China's pivotal role in trying to get North Korea to commit to denuclearization and return to multilateral talks on its nuclear program could bring United States President Barack Obama a substantial reward for the long-standing US approach of peaceful engagement with the North.
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