Chinese authorities fanned out throughout Tibetan locations of China over the weekend, warning Tibetan monasteries not to host “outside visitors” throughout the 85 th birthday on July 6 of banished spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, a source in exile stated. Locations covered by the restriction consisted of monasteries in western China’s Sichuan and Qinghai provinces, […]

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A fire at a train station in the North Korean city of Sinuiju ruined a freight train bring numerous lots of cooking oil from China and a warehouse full of freight, witnesses who saw the blaze from throughout the Chinese border informed RFA Friday. People in Dandong, China, throughout the Yalu river border from Sinuiju […]

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Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang, who just recently served a four-and-a-half- year prison term for “subversion,” has actually submitted an official problem versus his treatment at the hands of police authorities, he informed RFA. Speaking on the anniversary of the July 9, 2015 crackdown on human rights legal representatives, law office and associated activists, […]

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Memetrusul Hesen an ethnic Uyghur from Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) prefecture, in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Self-governing Area (XUAR) who is currently living in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, has actually not had any type of contact with 35 members of his family, all of whom live back in Kashgar’s Kargilik (Yecheng) county, for more than 4 years […]

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Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi raised eyebrows when she referred to current victims of a jade mine landslide that eliminated a minimum of 172 people recently as “illegal” in an online chat in which she regreted the absence of appropriate tasks in the nation. Heavy rains triggered stacks of loose dirt and debris to […]

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Australia, Japan, and the United States have actually taken a very finely veiled spoken swipe at China’s intriguing conduct in the South China Sea, decrying what they called “dangerous or coercive” usage of coastguard vessels and maritime militia and efforts to interfere with oil expedition. The allied countries released the strong joint declaration after their […]

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Less than a week after China sent out a study vessel into Vietnamese waters, vessel-tracking software application shows that the China Coast Guard has actually appeared at Vanguard Bank, an understood South China Sea flashpoint in between Vietnam and China. The coastguard ship came within 30 nautical miles of a Vietnamese oil well, and its […]

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A team selected by the Myanmar federal government to penetrate a huge landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar has actually started its examination into the fatal mishap that eliminated a minimum of 172 people, a Kachin state official stated Tuesday. Heavy rains triggered stacks of loose dirt and debris to collapse on July […]

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Taiwan would welcome a visit by banished Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, a foreign ministry representative stated on Monday, including that any invite would be dealt with under “relevant rules” if a demand to visit is gotten. The Dalai Lama is “welcome to come to Taiwan again to propagate the Buddhist teachings,” spokesperson Joanne […]

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For the first time in a number of years, the United States has actually released two attack aircraft carrier in the South China Sea, the U.S. Navy stated Monday, right after China bent its own marine muscle with a military workout in the challenged Paracel Islands. The military maneuvers indicate increasing tensions in the area, […]

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