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Entries from Shanghaiist tagged with 'nepal'

June 23, 2008

The Olympic torch moves today to Qinghai Lake in the Northwestern province of Qinghai, after making a one-day cameo in Lhasa. The Saturday visit to the Tibetan capital was carefully monitored in light of March’s uprising, and tight security continues in the province that was another sight of spring unrest. As the torch makes its way through China’s heavily-minority sections, several pieces of interesting news and commentary have surfaced covering the situations of various ethnic......

Continue Reading "Minority roundup: Torch tension, Muslims in Tibet and letting go of the "race complex""

April 15, 2008

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/politics/Bush_Adviser_Stephen_Hadley_can_t_tell_Nepal_from_Tibet'; Looks like Stephen Hadley, President Bush's National Security advisor, can't tell the difference between Tibet and Nepal. In this interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News' "This Week" on April 13, Sunday, Hadley explains why Bush is going to the Beijing Olympics later this year when no sitting President of the United States has ever attended any foreign Olympics. In discussing the US response to the Tibet issue, Hadley repeatedly mentioned......

Continue Reading "Oops of the Day 1: Stephen Hadley, US National Security Adviser"

January 6, 2008

This week on Shanghaiist Sunday Show, we turn on our eye to the refugee issue and bring you not just one but two documentaries. The first documentary is a show on Al Jazeera's 101 East which features Tibetan refugees trying to get out of China and the second one is a show on North Korean refugees trying to come into China. In this report, Al Jazeera's Teymoor Nabili speaks to Tenzin Choephel, a Tibetan journalist......

Continue Reading "Shanghaiist Sunday Show: Tibet Refugees on Al-Jazeera"

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