SHANGHAI, Aug 29 (Reuters) – China must build an “impregnable fortress” to maintain stability in Tibet, protect national unity and educate the masses in the struggle against “splittism”, President Xi Jinping told senior leaders, state media said on Saturday. China seized control over Tibet in 1950 in what it describes as a “peaceful liberation” that […]
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The Dalai Lama made a bid for music chart stardom on Monday, his 85th birthday, with the release of an album of mantras and teachings. “Inner World” kicks off with the track “One Of My Favourite Prayers” and continues with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader reciting meditations and sayings with accompanying music. The record came
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NEW DELHI, June 24 (Reuters) – E-commerce players in India such as Amazon’s local unit and Walmart’s Flipkart will consider asking sellers on their platforms to list the country of origin on products, three sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The discussion was part of a meeting of online retailers held via video-conferencing,
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BEIJING, June 15 (Reuters) – Beijing reported its second consecutive day of record new numbers of COVID-19 cases on Monday, adding urgency to efforts to rein in a sudden resurgence of the coronavirus in the Chinese capital. The recent outbreak has been traced to Xinfadi, a sprawling wholesale food market that is the biggest in
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HONG KONG/TAIPEI, June 4 (Reuters) – Many people in Hong Kong plan to commemorate the bloody 1989 crackdown by Chinese troops in and around Tiananmen Square by lighting candles across the city on Thursday, circumventing a ban on the usual public gathering amid the coronavirus pandemic. The anniversary strikes an especially sensitive nerve in the semi-autonomous city this year
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Coronavirus infections are rising in Germany, South Korea and China, days after the countries eased their lockdown restrictions. In Germany, the reproduction rate – the estimated number of people a confirmed patient infects – is now above 1. This means the number of infections is now rising in the country. The report came as thousands
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EDITORIAL: After publishing CGTN’s tweet which claimed Mt. Everest in China, netizens pointed out their mistake. CGTN, for their part, acted responsibly. They deleted the tweet, and posted a correct version of it which included Nepal’s name. The news has been met by great enthusiasm within our social media fraternity – several of them accusing
FYI, the entire land of Tibet is encroached upon. Read Post »
Talks of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli warning his ministers and party members against sharing information with the media have been making rounds of late. Several national dailies, print and online, have quoted minsters close to Oli as saying that Oli is “increasingly unhappy about the leaking of information about government and party decisions to
In another example of info-block, Oli warns against leaking information to media Read Post »
China has released new measures to try and prevent asymptomatic “silent carriers” of coronavirus from causing a second wave of infections. Mainland China reported 63 new confirmed cases on Wednesday, up from 62 a day earlier, the National Health Commission said. Of those, 61 were travellers arriving from overseas, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in China to 81,865.
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China’s most popular messaging app has been censoring key words about the coronavirus outbreak from as early as 1 January, a report has found. Toronto-based research group Citizen Lab found that WeChat blocked combinations of keywords and criticism of President Xi Jinping. The report also found that WeChat, owned by Chinese firm Tencent, blocked more
Chinese messaging app WeChat censored coronavirus content since January 1 Read Post »
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