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  • April 2008

    • Beijing Eases Limits on Wikipedia

      Reuters  |  Apr 5, 08 11:12 AM CDT

      Beijing Eases Limits on Wikipedia

      (Newser) - Prodded by the International Olympic Committee, China has seemingly eased restrictions on the English-language version of Wikipedia, Reuters reports. But authorities continue to block access to articles related to sensitive topics such as Tibet and Tiananmen Square. Users in Shanghai and Beijing, the site of the summer Olympics, reported being able to view some pages on the popular web encyclopedia. More »

    • Chinese Police Kill 8 Protesters

      Times (UK)  |  Apr 4, 08 5:29 PM CDT

      Chinese Police Kill 8 Protesters

      (Newser) - Chinese police killed eight protesters and wounded dozens more overnight in Sichuan province when they opened fire on a demonstration led by Tibetan monks, the Times of London reports. The altercation started when police searched a Tibetan monastery, confiscating phones and images of the Dalai Lama. After arresting two, the police demanded all in the monastery denounce the Tibetan spiritual leader. More »

    • Chinese Get No Independent News on Tibet

      Christian Science Monitor  |  Apr 2, 08 1:46 PM CDT

      Chinese Get No Independent News on Tibet

      (Newser) - China's media outlets have been getting their information about the recent unrest in Tibet solely from the state-controlled news agency, Xinhua. As a result, most Chinese citizens are buying the government's handling of what has been portrayed as mob violence plotted from abroad—when it's been covered at all, the Christian Science Monitor reports. More »

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      China  • Tibet  • censorship  • media coverage  • Xinhua  • Great Firewall of China

    • India Tries to Placate Both China and Tibet

      Washington Post  |  Apr 2, 08 7:48 AM CDT

      India Tries to Placate Both China and Tibet

      (Newser) - India enjoys a trade relationship with China, its fellow powerhouse economy, that experts value at around $40 billion this year. But it also hosts the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan government in exile, and about 100,000 Tibetans who live in the country. As tensions in Tibet continue, writes the Washington Post, India is treading a narrow path to please both sides. More »

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      China  • India  • Tibet  • Dalai Lama  • Tibetans in exile

    • China Blasts Dalai Lama 'Suicide Plots'

      Guardian (UK)  |  Apr 2, 08 5:13 AM CDT

      China Blasts Dalai Lama 'Suicide Plots'

      (Newser) - Chinese authorities are accusing the Dalai Lama of organizing suicide attacks, building an arsenal of weapons and explosives in Tibetan monasteries, and plotting to disrupt the Beijing Olympics. The fresh allegations come in the wake of last month's raging protests in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa and China's violent response. More »

    • House Speaker Calls on Bush to Snub Olympic Ceremonies

      ABC News  |  Apr 1, 08 4:07 AM CDT

      House Speaker Calls on Bush to Snub Olympic Ceremonies

      (Newser) - House speaker Nancy Pelosi calls on President Bush to consider skipping the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics in an interview airing today, ABC reports. Pelosi, a fierce critic of China's human rights record, isn't suggesting an American boycott of the games themselves, but. she says that it was a mistake to have ever awarded the Olympics to China. More »

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      George W. Bush  • China  • 2008 Beijing Olympics  • Tibet  • Nancy Pelosi  • human rights  • Dalai Lama  • boycott

  • March 2008

    • Olympic Torch Lit in Beijing

      Associated Press  |  Mar 31, 08 6:00 AM CDT

      Olympic Torch Lit in Beijing

      (Newser) - The Olympic torch was re-lighted today in Beijing’s Tienanmen Square in an elaborate ceremony marked by tight security, the AP reports. President Hu Jintao passed the flame to a champion Chinese hurdler in a televised event attended by some 5,000 people. Confetti floated over bright red seats and dancers from minority groups—including Tibetans—performed. The lighting begins a 20-country torch relay in a ritual expected to draw anti-China human rights protests around the globe. More »

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      China  • 2008 Beijing Olympics  • Tibet  • Beijing  • Olympic torch  • Hu Jintao  • Tiananmen Square  • ceremony

    • Protesters Disrupt Olympic Torch Exchange

      New York Times  |  Mar 30, 08 3:23 PM CDT

      Protesters Disrupt Olympic Torch Exchange

      (Newser) - Protesters against China’s Tibet crackdown shook up today’s Olympic torch hand-off in Athens, the New York Times reports. Some 15 people dodged security to fly banners and shout “Free Tibet” as they tried to block Greek officials from passing the flame to Beijing authorities. Ten were nabbed by police, but it’s not yet clear whether they’ll face charges. More »

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      China  • 2008 Beijing Olympics  • Tibet  • Olympic torch  • Greece  • protesters  • Athens  • Falun Gong

    • Protesters Follow Olympic Torch to Acropolis

      Associated Press  |  Mar 29, 08 8:14 PM CDT

      Protesters Follow Olympic Torch to Acropolis

      (Newser) - Olympic torchbearers made their way to the Acropolis in Greece today with the help of heavy security that kept protesters at arm's length, the AP reports. Activists have set up camp by candlelight outside the stadium—site of the first modern Olympics in 1896— to protest China's human rights record and the recent crackdown in Tibet. The torch will be passed to Chinese officials tomorrow. More »

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      2008 Beijing Olympics  • Tibet  • Olympic torch  • Olympic protests  • Greece  • Tibetans  • Acropolis

    • China Seals Off Tibetan Capital

      Reuters  |  Mar 29, 08 2:51 PM CDT

      China Seals Off Tibetan Capital

      (Newser) - Chinese police closed off Tibet's capital today after fresh protests broke out during a tightly-orchestrated visit by diplomats. “The whole area has been shut down,” said one London-based advocacy group. Authorities swarmed Lhasa’s main temples, as monks continued demonstrating and urged Beijing to begin talks with the Dalai Lama. More »

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      China  • Tibet  • Henry Paulson  • Dalai Lama  • Tibetan independence  • Lhasa  • monks  • diplomats

    • West Must Boycott Olympic Venues 'Stained With Blood'

      New Republic  |  Mar 27, 08 6:33 PM CDT

      West Must Boycott Olympic Venues 'Stained With Blood'

      (Newser) - The West must take a stand against China's human-rights abuses by boycotting the Summer Olympics, French philosopher Bernard-Henry Levy insists in the New Republic . Otherwise, athletes will compete in “stadiums stained with blood.” China was supposed to cease its worst behavior, but it’s done the opposite: A pre-Games cleanup has meant expelling the urban poor, demolishing working-class neighborhoods, and jailing even more dissidents. More »

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      China  • 2008 Beijing Olympics  • Burma  • Tibet  • Darfur  • boycott  • Olympic boycotts  • human rights abuse

    • Monks Spoil China's PR Tour

      Financial Times (UK)  |  Mar 27, 08 11:37 AM CDT

      Monks Spoil China's PR Tour

      (Newser) - Tibetan monks burst into a carefully choreographed Chinese media event yesterday, breaking the image of restored calm China had hoped to project. China had allowed a small group of foreign reporters into the region, but even as one monk at Lhasa’s Jokhang Temple was expounding on the return to normalcy, 30 younger monks burst in, shouting “We want a free Tibet!” More »

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      China  • Tibet  • protests  • censorship  • Tibetan independence  • Buddhist monks  • Lhasa

    • Bush Urges China-Tibet Dialogue

      BBC  |  Mar 26, 08 10:15 PM CDT

      Bush Urges China-Tibet Dialogue

      (Newser) - President Bush called Chinese President Hu Jintao today and urged Beijing to begin talks with the Dalai Lama, the BBC reports. Bush also pressed for greater access to Tibet for journalists and diplomats, the White House said. China today allowed a small group of foreign reporters into Lhasa for the first time since protests began, but Tibetan monks  disrupted their tour of a temple with chants of "Tibet is not free," the AP notes. More »

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      George W. Bush  • China  • United States  • Tibet  • Dalai Lama  • Hu Jintao  • riots  • Lhasa  • Tibetans in exile

    • Sarkozy Dangles Olympic Boycott

      BBC  |  Mar 25, 08 12:35 PM CDT

      Sarkozy Dangles Olympic Boycott

      (Newser) - Nicolas Sarkozy says "all options are open" in terms of a possible boycott of the opening ceremonies of Beijing's Olympics. While his aides say that France would oppose a full boycott of the games, the French prez is signaling his discontent with China's recent crackdown in Tibet. "I want a dialogue to start and I will step up my response according to the response given by the Chinese authorities," said Sarkozy. More »

    • Chinese Cop Killed in Tibet Protest

      Reuters  |  Mar 25, 08 5:10 AM CDT

      Chinese Cop Killed in Tibet Protest

      (Newser) - A Chinese policeman has been killed in a confrontation with Tibetan demonstrators in Sichuan, as unrest continues despite Beijing's massive deployment of forces. Several other officers and protesters were wounded in the clash yesterday as activists called for an independent Tibet. But an absence of independent journalists in the area makes it difficult to piece together an accurate account, Reuters reports. More »

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      China  • Tibet  • Tibetan independence  • Sichuan province

    • Scholars Urge China to Meet With Dalai Lama

      New York Times  |  Mar 24, 08 3:30 AM CDT

      Scholars Urge China to Meet With Dalai Lama

      (Newser) - A group of prominent Chinese intellectuals is challenging the government over its response to protests in Tibet, accusing Beijing of inciting ethnic tensions and demanding that it begin talks with the Dalai Lama. A petition signed by 29 writers, journalists and scholars, blasts China’s “one-sided propaganda” war and charges it with “fanning racial hatred,” reports the New York Times. More »

    • China Slams Pelosi's Support for Tibet

      Associated Press  |  Mar 23, 08 2:36 PM CDT

      China Slams Pelosi's Support for Tibet

      (Newser) - China’s government hammered House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today over her meeting with the Dalai Lama and subsequent condemnation of China's "oppression" of Tibetan protests that turned to riots, the AP reports. Xinhua, China’s state news agency, said “human rights police” like Pelosi employed “double standards” unfair to China and didn’t “check their facts.” More »

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      China  • 2008 Beijing Olympics  • Tibet  • protests  • Nancy Pelosi  • human rights  • Dalai Lama  • riots  • Xinhua

    • Pope Hails Easter Conversions

      BBC  |  Mar 23, 08 1:27 PM CDT

      Pope Hails Easter Conversions

      (Newser) - Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Easter Mass today, hailing the miracle of conversion, "which renews itself even today" before a rain-soaked crowd in St. Peter's Square and calling for an end to hostilities in "Darfur and Somalia, the tormented Middle East, especially the Holy Land, Iraq, Lebanon, and Tibet." His address followed the controversial baptism of a high-profile Muslim journalist, BBC reports. More »

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      Tibet  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Rome  • Christians  • Jesus Christ  • Easter  • Mass  • St. Peter's Basilica  • Magdi Allam  • St. Peter's Square

    • China Rips Dalai Lama for Olympic 'Sabotage'

      Reuters  |  Mar 23, 08 6:00 AM CDT

      China Rips Dalai Lama for Olympic 'Sabotage'

      (Newser) - Beijing is charging that the Dalai Lama incited recent protests in Tibet as part of a "terror" plot to ruin the Olympic games, Reuters reports. "The Dalai Lama is scheming to take the Beijing Olympics hostage to force the Chinese government to make concessions to Tibet independence," writes China's official newspaper. The Dalai Lama has condemned the violence. More »

    • China Spins Tibet Crisis for the World

      Associated Press  |  Mar 22, 08 4:50 PM CDT

      China Spins Tibet Crisis for the World

      (Newser) - China retaliated today against the negative press that is flooding out of the Tibet crisis, the AP reports. Beijing released footage of Tibetan demonstrators assaulting Chinese, and blasted Western media such as CNN and Der Spiegel with claims of unfair coverage. Within Tibet, where foreign media is mostly banned, China continues to fill the void with its own version of events. It also increased its official death toll to 22. More »

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      China  • Tibet  • protests  • Dalai Lama  • Tibetan independence

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