Police and Tibetan protesters clashed yesterday in Katmandu, Nepal, home to thousands of Tibetan refugees, reported the Associated Press. Police armed with bamboo sticks stopped a protest by Tibetan refugees and monks in front...
Read MoreThe Christian Science Monitor discusses the tenuous position the Dalai Lama finds himself in in the midst of the recent violence erupting in Tibet. Thrust inescapably into the eye of the international storm currently raging over...
Read MoreThe International Herald Tribune reports that given China’s view that foreign media coverage of the Tibetans protests is unfair, Beijing has blocked access to journalists to affected regions as well as internet and...
Read MoreBusiness Week reports on the adverse effects of a state-owned land policy and the peasants’ move to reclaim land they say is being lost to corrupt local officials. In recent months peasants in at least four far-flung...
Read MoreHoward French for the New York Times reports on the economic disparity and ethnic tensions that exist in many of China’s mixed communities. In Tibet and in neighboring provinces, like Qinghai, Gansu and Sichuan, where...
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