Monthly Archives: 5 月 2014

Tibet propaganda boss vows to ‘seal’ internet to stop separatists

BEIJING Wed May 14, 2014 7:05am EDT

(Reuters) – Tibet’s top propaganda official vowed to “seal and stifle” the internet in an effort to defang separatist groups in the Himalayan region, China’s cabinet said on Wednesday.

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Tiananmen: How Wrong We Were

By Jonathan Mirsky

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Some of the two hundred thousand pro-democracy student protesters face to face with policemen outside the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, April 22

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China bans Tibetan religious figure from monastic order

(TibetanReview.net, May18, 2014) – China has stripped a senior Tibetan religious figure of his monastic robe and also banned him from rejoining or teaching at his monastery in Chamdo (Chinese: Changdu) County of Tibet Autonomous Region, after releasing him from jail on May 5, reported Radio Free Asia (Washington) May 16. Khenpo (Abbot) Lodroe Rabsel was held in late 2011, with a friend named Khenpo Namse Sonam for refusing to cooperate with the Chinese officials conducting patriotic re-education campaigns at their Karma Monastery.

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Everything you need to know about China’s social media users

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Chinese monk arrested ahead of Tiananmen massacre anniversary

A Chinese monk who led a prodemocracy movement during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest and sympathized with the victims of the massacre was arrested in central China’s Hubei Province, Chinese human rights scholar Teng Biao said Monday.

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Howard W. French discusses his new book about the massive Chinese migration to Africa

 

5135p4qviolHoward W. French, a professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, has spent years reporting about the massive migration of Chinese people to Africa. Alfred A. Knopf has just published the results of his work: China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants are Building a New Empire in China. French, who has served as the bureau chief in Japan, China, West and Central Africa, and the Caribbean for The New York Times, spoke with Columbia’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute about his new book.

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‘Tiananmen has been an ongoing trauma for me’: HK activists recall pain of helping June 4 protesters

PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 20 May, 2014, 11:34am

UPDATED : Wednesday, 21 May, 2014, 10:56am
Gary Cheung
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Chong Yiu-kwong (left), Lam Yik-tsz, Tommy Cheung and Victor Wong with the ‘Goddess of Democracy’ at Chinese University in Sha Tin. Photo: Edward Wong
Recalling the events of 1989 traumatised Dr Lam Yik-tsz.

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25 Years On, Mothers Of Tiananmen Square Dead Seek Answers

by LOUISA LIM May 20, 2014 1:36 PM ET

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A young woman is caught between civilians and Chinese soldiers, who were trying to remove her from an assembly near the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, June 3, 1989. A deadly crackdown on pro-democracy protesters who had been occupying Tiananmen Square began the next day.

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