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Commentary: Afghan lament
Washington (UPI) Mar 28, 2008 "I don't care if it takes another 10 or 20 years, but we cannot allow Afghanistan to fail." So spoke Frank Carlucci, former U.S. defense secretary and national security adviser, at the Council on Foreign Relations. Failure, said Carlucci, would break the Atlantic Alliance and turn the world stage over to the next two global heavy hitters -- China and Russia. Most of the European members ... more China the dominant force at Mekong region summit 
Vientiane (AFP) March 30, 2008When six Mekong country premiers meet in Laos from Sunday, China will be the elephant in the room, having lavished highways and sports stadiums on its neighbours and expanded its search for resources. Booming China is fast emerging as the biggest economic patron of Laos, host of a two-day Greater Mekong Subregion summit, as well as of Cambodia and Myanmar, and it is a formidable force ... more Fresh Tibet protests reported as diplomats visit 
Dharamshala, India (AFP) March 29, 2008Tibet's government-in-exile reported fresh mass protests in Lhasa on Saturday as foreign diplomats visited the tense city following recent deadly unrest over Chinese rule. As EU foreign ministers called for an end to violence, the exiled Tibet body said "thousands" had joined demonstrations in Lhasa, although a spokesman stressed details were hard to confirm. ... more Nepal to put troops on Everest to block Tibet demos 
Kathmandu (AFP) March 28, 2008Nepal is to deploy soldiers on its side of Mount Everest to prevent pro-Tibet protests when China carries the Olympic torch to the summit in early May, officials told AFP Friday. Government sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said video cameras would be banned from the area and foreign climbers would only be allowed near the top of the world's highest peak once the Olympic expedition ... more Tibet religious official sacked: state media 
Beijing (AFP) March 30, 2008Tibet's top official for minority and religious affairs has been sacked, Chinese state media said Sunday, becoming the first apparent political casualty of the unrest in the Himalayan region. Danzeng Langjie, director of Tibet's Ethnic Minority and Religious Affairs Commission, has been "removed" from his post, according to a statement posted on the website of the Tibet Daily newspaper. ... more |
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Tokyo (AFP) March 26, 2008A Japanese defence ministry think-tank has warned that China's space programme could pose a military threat to other countries. The review, released on Thursday, also said China is likely to continue its space development programme "as a vital means of achieving military competitiveness against the United States." "The organisations engaged in China's space development have strong ties ... more US Army suspends suspect Afghan munitions deal 
Washington (AFP) March 27, 2008A defense contractor reportedly led by a 22-year-old has been suspended from doing business with the US government for allegedly supplying Afghan security forces with old Chinese-made munitions in violation of its contract and US law, officials said Thursday. Until an investigation has been completed, AEY Inc. and its president Efraim Diveroli, have been suspended from future contracting ... more Monks defy China crackdown to protest in Lhasa 
Beijing (AFP) March 27, 2008Monks from one of Tibetan Buddhism's most sacred temples defied China's crackdown to protest in front of visiting foreign reporters in Lhasa on Thursday, voicing their support for the Dalai Lama. The embarrassing protest came as China again refused to hold talks with the exiled spiritual leader, after US President George W. Bush added his voice to calls for dialogue in an effort to solve the ... more China to clamp down on map websites: report 
Shanghai (AFP) March 27, 2008The Chinese government will clamp down on mapping websites and other online geographical information it fears could undermine national security, state media reported Thursday. Eight government agencies have said they will tighten supervision of geographical information available online, the official China Daily reported. Authorities will close down most of the nearly 10,000 online website ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) March 27, 2008China moved Wednesday to show it had the situation in Tibet under control, saying more than 660 people had surrendered over deadly unrest and escorting foreign journalists on a tour of the region. The media trip came as Chinese state-run press and online forums ramped up criticism over Western reporting about the unrest, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned he might boycott the opening ... more Tibetan crackdown leaves 135 dead, 1,000 injured: exiled leader 
Brussels (AFP) March 26, 2008The head of the Tibetan parliament-in-exile on Wednesday decried the Chinese "massacre" in Tibet, which he said had left least 135 people dead, 1,000 injured and 400 arrested. "Information from Tibet is very difficult to get, but we have sources who are very reliable, who phone us at the risk of their lives," parliamentary speaker Karma Chophel told reporters during a visit to the European ... more Chinese vent anger online over 'biased' western Tibet coverage 
Beijing (AFP) March 26, 2008Angry Chinese nationalists are using the Internet to denounce Western media coverage of Tibetan unrest, amid a campaign by the Beijing government to discredit what it says are biased foreign reports. An "anti-CNN website" brands the news channel as the world's "leader of liars", exposing what it calls errors in its reporting and in other Western news outlets. The website was set up by a ... more Bush expresses concerns over Tibet to China's Hu 
Washington (AFP) March 26, 2008US President George W. Bush called Chinese leader Hu Jintao Wednesday and "raised his concerns" over the situation in Tibet, the White House said. "President Bush called President Hu Jintao today. The president raised his concerns about the situation in Tibet and encouraged the Chinese government to engage in substantive dialogue with the Dalai Lama's representatives and to allow access ... more
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