China

Paris, France — The France-based watchdog group Reporters Without Borders said it is shocked by the Chinese government’s praise of its human rights performance last year in a white paper published yesterday and points out that the regime continues to be one of the worst in the world for persecuting journalists and bloggers and censoring the news.

Reporters Without Borders condemns the controls on information about the situation in the industrial port city of Tianjin that the government has imposed in the wake of last week’s tragic events there.

Dharamshala — Celebrating the 80th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Monday morning, the political leader of Tibet Dr Lobsang Sangay stressed his hope that "the Chinese leadership will soon understand the Middle Way Approach as a mutually beneficial solution and continue the dialogue process with the envoys of His Holiness the Dalai Lama."

Dharamshala — 'We must severely punish those party members and cadres who don't share the same mind with the communist party,' said Chen Quanguo, Beijing-appointed Chinese party chief in the so called Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR).

Last week, news broke that one of Tibet’s most revered Buddhist monks and fierce activists had died, following 13 years of ill-treatment and torture in a Chinese prison.

President Xi Jinping and all top seven officials gathered Friday (Nov. 20) to commemorate Chinese reformist leader Hu Yaobang, whose death catalyzed the 1989 pro-democracy protest movement that was brutally crushed on Tiananmen Square in Beijing.