Chinese leader says fight against Tibetans remains ‘very serious’

October 23rd, 2009 LONDON - China has reportedly executed four Tibetan protesters, including one woman, in connection with last year's deadly riots in Lhasa. The first ever-reported judicial killings of Tibetans in China have prompted overseas protests that proper legal procedures were not followed, The Guardian reports.

October 19th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Besides issuing separate visas to Indian passport holders from Jammu and Kashmir, China is also projecting the disputed territory as an independent country in other ways. Visitors to Tibet, especially journalists invited by the Chinese government, are given handouts where Kashmir is indicated as a country separate from India.

October 2nd, 2009 KATHMANDU - For the first time in its history, Nepal will form a Border Security Force to patrol its northernmost tip of the border it shares with Tibet in a bid to prevent anti-China activities by Tibetan dissidents, Nepal's Home Minister Bhim Rawal said. Accompanied by the heads of different security wings, the home minister Thursday paid a surprise visit to Mustang, Nepal's northernmost district that was once part of an ancient Tibetan kingdom which escaped the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950 and still retains its old culture.

October 1st, 2009 KATHMANDU - Under pressure from Beijing to prevent protests by Tibetan refugees on China's 60th anniversary celebrations, Nepal Thursday began rounding up Tibetans here and sending them to detention centres. As the crackdown started on refugee leaders suspected of leading anti-China protests in the past, police arrested 45 Tibetans from different parts of the capital.

September 22nd, 2009 Obama, Chinese leader meet on UN sidelinesNEW YORK — President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao brushed aside their countries' differences Tuesday, offering instead diplomatic assurances and pledging to strengthen an increasingly intertwined relationship. The leaders did not mention the latest point of tension in their countries' ties during public comments before their meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly: the recent U.S.

September 22nd, 2009 BEIJING - China has banned foreign tourists from travelling to Tibet ahead of a parade in the capital to mark 60 years of Communist rule. The Daily Express quoted Tan Lin, an official with the business administration office at the Tourism Bureau of Tibet, as saying that foreign tourists would be banned from entering Tibet, but added that those who have already arrived would be allowed to stay.

July 22nd, 2009 Some IMF members say China's currency undervaluedWASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund is welcoming China's progress in letting the market determine the value of its currency, the yuan, but says some countries believe it remains "substantially undervalued." The IMF says many members believe further strengthening the yuan should be part of a comprehensive Chinese strategy to rebalance the economy, but others say it would play only a supporting role toward promoting changes. In its annual report on the Chinese economy, the IMF did not name individual countries' positions on the yuan.

July 11th, 2009 BEIJING - Eighteen months ago, when unrest had broken out among Tibetans in western China, the Chinese government had banned foreign reporters in the region, but in stark in contrast the administration changed their tactics to tackle the Urumqi unrest. The Chinese propaganda officials used several Western PR tactics of media management to effectively ward off perceptions of the state's involvement in the ethnic violence in Urumqi, the capital of China's western Xinjiang Province, where 156 people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured in riots, the csmonitor.com reports.

July 1st, 2009 KATHMANDU - Fretting at the resumption of anti-China protests in Nepal by Tibetan refugees, Beijing has sent a delegation to Kathmandu to seek support from the new government of Nepal to quell them. Zhang Jiuhuan, a former ambassador to Nepal and current politburo member of the Communist Party of China, Wednesday met Nepal's new Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala to register his government's concern at the fresh eruption of protests calling for a 'Free Tibet'.

June 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese man and his wife in Danjiangkou, Hubei province, have become quite famous because they have the same name and date of birth. Both are named Wang Yang and both were born on April 29, 1982, reports the China Daily.

June 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has expressed frustration over Beijing's lies and hypocrisy during his recent European tour. The visit that ended in Paris on Monday saw the Tibetan leader offering a new and more urgent plea for help as well as a break with decades of a "turn the other cheek" policy, The Christian Science Monitor reports.

June 7th, 2009 DHARAMSALA - For centuries, the selection of a new Dalai Lama has been steeped in the mysticism of a bygone world. His closest aides look for divinations in a sacred lake.

June 6th, 2009 NEW YORK - The Tibetan riots and protests of March 2008 were the result of genuine grievances brought about by failed Chinese Government policies, and not through a plot of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. A group of prominent Chinese lawyers and legal scholars have released a research report arguing that Tibetans ran from clashes between protesters and Chinese soldiers in March 2008 in Lhasa, The New York Times reports.

May 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Four Tibetans who played an active role in the 'peaceful protests' staged in Tibet against the Chinese occupation of their land recalled the atrocities committed by the Chinese forces on fellow Tibetans. hey narrated their experiences at a news conference in New Delhi on Thursday.

May 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Chinese rule in Tibet is based upon ethnic inequality by empowering an elite class, who in turn, remain loyal to Beijing, an unprecedented report has claimed. ritten by scholars in Beijing, the report has been hailed by both Tibetans and Chinese as a revealing look at the troubled region.