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China’s Top Official in Tibet Orders New Media Clampdown

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">China's top leader in Tibet is urging local authorities to clamp down on Internet and mobile phone use in the region, as Beijing prepares to open its annual National People's Congress and Tibetans honor those who have died protesting Chinese rule.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The state-run Tibet Daily quotes regional Communist Party chief Chen Quanguo as saying that maintaining stability in the Himalayan region “means everything. Unstable elements must be nipped in the bud and all work at maintaining stability must be deepened.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">He also said security forces “must crush hostile forces” led by the Dalai Lama — the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader who is widely revered outside China, while accused by Beijing of fomenting rebellion in Tibetan regions.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">China has flooded Tibetan areas with thousands of troops and police in recent weeks, in a push to prevent Tibetan activists from setting themselves on fire to protest Chinese presence in their territories.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The latest crackdown call — just days ahead of the anniversary of deadly unrest in 2011 and 2008 — has reached all the way to Beijing. There, outspoken Tibetan writer-poet Tsering Woeser said Wednesday that security police prevented her from receiving a cultural award from the Dutch ambassador.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">China's showcase annual legislative session begins next week, and authorities in past years have sought to portray national unity by squelching any and all signs of public dissent in the capital.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For Tibetans, March 17 marks the first anniversary of a widely-reported self-immolation by a young monk whose death triggered the current crackdown.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">March 17 is also the fourth anniversary of a larger and deadly Chinese crackdown in Tibetan areas, and the 53rd anniversary of the Dalai Lama's escape to northern India, after a failed uprising in Tibet against Chinese rule. ---VOA News<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

China’s Top Official in Tibet Orders New Media Clampdown

China's top leader in Tibet is urging local authorities to clamp down on Internet and mobile phone use in the region, as Beijing prep...

TIBETAN YOUTHS STORM CHINESE EMBASSY IN NEW DELHI.

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Tibetan college students, all members of the largest pro-independence group in exile, Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) storm the Chinese Embassy in the Indian capital, New Delhi Feb. 16, 2012. Shouting slogans against China’s repressive policies and the violent military crackdown in Tibetan areas, they were protesting the visit of Luo Huining, the governor of China’s Qinghai prefecture, which constitutes the traditional Tibetan province of Amdo. So far 24 Tibetans have set themselves ablaze demanding the return of the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama from exile and freedom in Tibet. Photo courtesy TYC<o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr>
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TIBETAN YOUTHS STORM CHINESE EMBASSY IN NEW DELHI.

Tibetan college students, all members of the largest pro-independence group in exile, Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) storm the Chinese Embas...

Indian Police Detain 13 Tibetan Protesters outside Chinese Embassy

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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Indian police have detained 13 Tibetan exiles who joined an anti-China protest outside the Chinese embassy in the capital, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New   Delhi</st1:place></st1:city>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">A group of Tibetan youths gathered outside the embassy Sunday, saying they were showing solidarity with at least seven China-based monks who have set themselves on fire this year to protest perceived religious repression by <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Beijing</st1:place></st1:city>. The Tibetan activists raised banners and chanted slogans denouncing <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> before Indian police broke up the protest.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Tibetan rights groups say two former Buddhist monks set themselves on fire last Friday in a Tibetan area of southwest <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region>'s <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sichuan</st1:place></st1:state> province, while at least five other monks committed similar protests earlier this year. At least one of those monks died.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region> has responded to the self-immolations by calling on <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> to respect the rights of Tibetans and to address policies that have created tension in Tibetan areas. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Many Tibetans are angry about what they see as increasing domination of their communities by <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s majority Han ethnic group.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">China</span></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> has rejected the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> criticism, expressing opposition to interference in its internal affairs and insisting that it protects the legal rights of the country's ethnic minorities. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> also says Tibetan living standards have improved with billions of dollars of Chinese investment. ---VOA News<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Indian Police Detain 13 Tibetan Protesters outside Chinese Embassy

Indian police have detained 13 Tibetan exiles who joined an anti-China protest outside the Chinese embassy in the capital, New Delhi . ...

Dalai Lama to receive Mahatma Gandhi peace award

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">JOHANNESBURG (NNN-Bernama): The Dalai Lama will receive the Mahatman Gandhi peace prize at the annual Satyagraha Awards, which will be held at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Durban</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">City Hall</st1:placetype></st1:place> on Oct 9, Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The legendary Indian leader's granddaughter Ela Gandhi, who announced on Sunday in conjunction with Gandhi Jayanti celebration, urged the South African government to grant a visa to the Tibetan spiritual leader to visit the country and receive the award. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The event is one of several public invitations that the Dalai Lama has accepted during a proposed South African visit this week, amid concern that the South African government may not grant him a visa under Chinese pressure. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The visit was prompted by an invitation from fellow Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu for the Dalai Lama to join him for his 80th birthday celebrations on Friday. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Denying that the visa was being delayed due to a visit toSouth Africa's biggest trading partner China by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe last week, South African authorities said the visa was still "under consideration" on Friday, less than a week before the start of his visit. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The Dalai Lama had previously been refused a visa in 2009. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Expressing the hope that the visa would be issued in time, Ela Gandhi said: <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">"Since he is a spiritual head and not a political one, there should be no problem issuing the Dalai Lama with a visa," she said. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">In Johannesburg, the University of the Witwatersrand in conjunction with the Gandhi Centenary Committee, One Young World and Afrika Tikkun has invited the Dalai Lama to talk on 'Non-Violence in the New Century: The Way Forward.'</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">"We would encourage the South African government not to silence the voice of the Dalai Lama. We should welcome the opportunity to host him in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">South Africa</st1:place></st1:country-region> and we should allow all voices to be heard in our democracy - a right for which we have fought with our lives," Loyiso Nongxa, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of Wits University, said in a statement.-NNN-BERNAMA</span></div></div>

Dalai Lama to receive Mahatma Gandhi peace award

JOHANNESBURG (NNN-Bernama): The Dalai Lama will receive the Mahatman Gandhi peace prize at the annual Satyagraha Awards, which will be held...

China Warns Dalai Lama about Choosing Successor

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594488894/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&tag=glob036-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399377&creativeASIN=1594488894" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1594488894&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=glob036-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" width="202" /></a><place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">China</span></country-region></place><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> is warning the Dalai Lama he does not have the legal right to decide if he should be reincarnated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The statement comes after the 76-year-old said Saturday he plans decide when he is “about 90” whether he should be reincarnated and that <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">China</place></country-region> should have no say in the matter. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The Chinese foreign ministry warned the Dalai Lama Monday that only <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Beijing</place></city> can approve his successor.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei says any decision by the Dalai Lama to appoint a successor through traditional reincarnation would break Chinese law.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">He insists that <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">China</place></country-region> endorses a policy of religious freedom including respecting and protecting succession in Tibetan Buddhism leadership.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>But Hong stresses <country-region w:st="on">China</country-region>'s historical claim to its rule over <country-region w:st="on">Tibet</country-region> and says the title of Dalai Lama is only conferred by the central government in <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Beijing</place></city> and is illegal otherwise.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The Dalai Lama formally stepped down as the head of the Tibetan government-in-exile in July, when Harvard-trained scholar Lobsang Sangay was sworn in as the new political leader.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">On Saturday, the Dalai Lama said he will decide when he is about 90 years of age if he will be reincarnated. Traditionally, Tibetan monks identify a boy who shows signs he is a reincarnation of a late leader.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The 14th Dalai Lama says he will set clear guidelines to recognize the next leader while he was still physically and mentally fit to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>He says this will ensure there is no room for what he describes as deception.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The Dalai Lama set out his plan after a gathering of the four schools of Tibetan Buddhism in the northern Indian town, Dharamsala. Where the Tibetan government sits in exile following <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">China</country-region></place>'s military invasion and occupation in 1950.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The former prime minister of the exiled Tibetan government, Samdhong Rinpioche, says the meeting is discussing even if the Dalai Lama, as an institution, should continue.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">"During this congregation, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama had conferred with the heads of religious traditions regarding his interim declaration about whether it is necessary to continue the reincarnation of Dalai Lama institution after the 14th," explained the former prime minister. "As he had announced as early as 1969 whether the Dalai Lama institution should continue or not, will be decided by the Tibetan People and His Holiness' position still continued."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The Dalai Lama, who fled the country in 1959 and has never returned, says he will consult the senior lamas, the Tibetan public and other concerned people who follow Tibetan Buddhism.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">He says he will then re-evaluate whether the institution of the Dalai Lama should continue.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">He says <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">China</place></country-region> will not have a say on the matter.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">China</span></place></country-region><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> is likely to appoint its own successor regardless.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">This raises the prospect of two Tibetan spiritual leaders, with one recognized by <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Beijing</place></city> and the other chosen by Tibetan exiles.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">A similar scenario occurred in 1995 when <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">China</place></country-region> rejected the Dalai Lama's choice to be the next Panchen Lama and picked its own reincarnation, Gyaincain Norbu. The Chinese-raised Norbu is now 21 and publicly backs <city w:st="on">Beijing</city>'s rule of <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Tibet</place></country-region>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The Dalai Lama chose Gedhun Choekyi Nyima.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>He has not been seen since 1995 when he was detained by Chinese security forces. ---VOA News</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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China Warns Dalai Lama about Choosing Successor

By Peter Simpson from Beijing China is warning the Dalai Lama he does not have the legal right to decide if he should be reincarnated...

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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">  </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Graded-Lessons-English-Elementary-Consisting/dp/1148939245?ie=UTF8&tag=glob036-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Graded Lessons in English: An Elementary English Grammar, Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room, Book 1" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1148939245&tag=glob036-20" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=glob036-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1148939245" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />DAZI, Tibet (NNN-BERNAMA) -- Hoping to catch up with their "smart" Indian counterparts, students in Tibetan schools and universities, including those based in villages, are increasingly seeking enrolment in English-learning courses for better job prospects in future in mainland China and abroad. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Their eagerness to master the language can be experienced at a vocational institute in this county near the Tibetan capital Lhasa, where a number of teenagers are being trained to speak in English, reports Press Trust of India. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tashitseten, who teaches English at the institute, says that even in Tibetan villages, people have realised how important it is for their children to learn English if they want to earn well. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I have been teaching English for several years now and the institute has seen a remarkable increase year-on-year in the number of students who want to </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">learn the language," he says. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In the beginning, the students are taught basic English terms and the focus is not on writing but speaking, he says. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tashitseten says he encourages his students to communicate in the language even after class is over, as it would help them grasp it easier. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lousang, a student in his class, says he is learning the language as he wants to work in big hotels and earn well in future. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A girl student sitting next to him says she hopes to become a translator one day and travel around the world. She believes that it would be an asset for her if she becomes proficient in the language. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Most students at the institute say they want to be as smart as their Indian counterparts, who they feel are far better when it comes to English language. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Even in the Tibetan University at Lhasa, students are showing greater interest in English now as demand for interpreters is growing in the country. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Officials concerned say English is among the most popular courses in the university, which has 13 colleges and 8,000 students. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Apart from English, Science and Technology is also in demand among the </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">students. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wei Hong, deputy director of the university's international exchange </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">programme, says that she has herself studied English as a main subject at the same university. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"We receive many foreign delegations every year and take part in educational exchange programmes. My knowledge of English has helped me convey my ideas to them properly and also understand their views," she says. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wei says the university students are being trained in the language by excellent teachers. -- NNN-BERNAMA</span></div></div>

TIBETANS KEEN TO LEARN ENGLISH, CATCH UP WITH 'SMART' INDIANS

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Tibetan Exiles Accuse Chinese of Cyber-Attacks

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">By Kurt Achin from Dharamsala, India</span></b><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cyber-Attack/dp/B004PP0RHW?ie=UTF8&tag=glob036-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Cyber Attack" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B004PP0RHW&tag=glob036-20" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=glob036-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B004PP0RHW" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />By mobile phone, Internet and shortwave radio, Tibetan exiles maintain a constant watch on their friends, contacts and relatives living in Tibet under Chinese control.  China's increasingly sophisticated ability to conduct cyber-warfare is making the task more challenging, and pushing Tibetan exiles to develop training programs for keeping themselves secure online.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kanyak Tsering is an exiled Tibetan monk.  He belongs to a Dharamsala, India-based branch of the Kirti monastery, a Buddhist compound across the Chinese border that has been under a lockdown by security forces for months.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mountain-Tibet-Colin-Thubron/dp/006176826X?ie=UTF8&tag=glob036-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="To a Mountain in Tibet" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=006176826X&tag=glob036-20" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">VOA's Tibetan language division was recently able to obtain video images of the Kirti compound, where a<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=glob036-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=006176826X" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> young monk immolated himself in March to protest what many Tibetans view as China's deliberate eradication of Tibet's traditional Buddhist culture. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He says all the monks in the monastery are forced to attend the patriotic re-education sessions,  and Chinese officials tell the monks that if they don’t attend,  they will be expelled from the monastery.  In a few cases, he says, monks have tried to hide and were expelled as a result.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Years-Tibet-Heinrich-Harrer/dp/1585427438?ie=UTF8&tag=glob036-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Seven Years in Tibet" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1585427438&tag=glob036-20" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=glob036-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1585427438" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />For months, Kanyak has had to step into the role of a spokesperson for the Kirti monastery, using every technological tool at his disposal.  China closely tracks any communication between Tibet and Dharamsala, where Tibetan exiles have had their unofficial capital for more than 50 years.  China views the small Indian city as the headquarters for a separatist movement.  So, information flows have to be indirect.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"I get information in various ways - over the Internet using e-mails, websites, chat rooms, and Skype.  Sometimes I make contact through mobile phones when Tibetans phone other Tibetan exiles they know," said Kanyak.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As he speaks to VOA, Kanyak receives a phone call.  A contact says he has received an email appearing to be from Kanyak, but with a peculiar attachment.   When Kanyak traces the email, he finds it has originated from an Internet address in China.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lonely-Planet-Tibet-Country-Travel/dp/1741792185?ie=UTF8&tag=glob036-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Lonely Planet Tibet (Country Travel Guide)" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1741792185&tag=glob036-20" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He says he can't say this or that individual is directly responsible, but that it is clear to him the Chinese<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=glob036-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1741792185" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> Government is involved.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Greg Walton is an independent researcher who advises the Tibetan exile administration on security.  He agrees that the email was probably a product of the Chinese government's increasingly vast cyber-offensive capability.  </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"What is intriguing is that often we'll see that the same command-and-control servers which are going after the big defense contractors, and stealing details of stealth bombers, or going after the big financial houses in New York - the same command-and-control servers are going after monks in Dharamsala," said Walton.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cyber attacks are cleverly worded to convince recipients to click on a link, or open an attachment, which implants malware on the recipient's computer, giving digital eavesdroppers wide-ranging access.   </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dharamsala-Diaries-Swati-Chopra/dp/0143103067?ie=UTF8&tag=glob036-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Dharamsala Diaries" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0143103067&tag=glob036-20" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=glob036-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0143103067" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />Walton says a monk like Kanyak is a highly valuable target. "Such a person is going to have a rich social graph, from the attacker's point of view," added Walton.  "Someone like that is very trusted, and if the Chinese are sending out emails from that account, it raises the probability that someone is actually going to trust the attachment and open."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Activist Tibetan exiles are stepping up efforts to train Tibetans about cyber security.  Much of the material is in English, so the first task is translation. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Lobsang Gyatso teaches Tibetans who plan to re-enter Chinese-controlled areas about Tor, a network of volunteer routers that helps users hide their location and identity from repressive governments.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Breaks-Over-Dharamsala-Janet-Thomas/dp/0615329217?ie=UTF8&tag=glob036-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Day Breaks Over Dharamsala" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0615329217&tag=glob036-20" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"What we have is a USB Tor.  Which you can just carry in a pen drive and you use it wherever you want.  So<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=glob036-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0615329217" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> you have complete anonymity, and at the same time you are able to circumvent the Chinese firewall," Lobsang explained.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The strategy entails risk for those carrying the pen drives back into Chinese-controlled Tibet.  Activists also warn that even though tools like Tor are effective, China's massive investments in cyber security mean no user is guaranteed 100 percent safety from watching eyes. (VOA News)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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Tibetan Exiles Accuse Chinese of Cyber-Attacks

By Kurt Achin from Dharamsala, India By mobile phone, Internet and shortwave radio, Tibetan exiles maintain a constant watch on their fri...