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Indians to observe 2013 as ‘Year of Tibetan Independence’

(From left to right) J P Sharma, co-convener of Core Group at
Delhi, Vijay Kranti, Core Group’s national co-convener, and Lama
Choephel Zotpa, National Co-convener, Core Group for Tibetan Cause
addressing the press in Dharamshala on June 11, 2012. (Phayul
photo/Norbu Wangyal)
(From left to right) J P Sharma, co-convener of Core Group at Delhi, Vijay Kranti, Core Group’s national co-convener, and Lama Choephel Zotpa, National Co-convener, Core Group for Tibetan Cause addressing the press in Dharamshala on June 11, 2012. (Phayul photo/Norbu Wangyal)

DHARAMSHALA, June 11: At the conclusion of the three-day Fourth All India Tibet Support Groups Conference, organisers today said that Indian supporters will hold a massive rally for Tibet in the Indian capital New Delhi this coming February in commemoration of 2013 as the “Year of Tibetan Independence.”

“A massive rally will be organised in February in the Indian capital in which Indian Tibet support groups and supporters will actively participate,” Vijay Kranti, a long time Tibet supporter and one of the core conveners of the conference said. “We expect over one hundred-thousand supporters to take part in the rally.”

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Anti-beef activists rally outside AIT to protest US’ attitude


A group of activists protest outside the American Institute in Taiwan in Taipei yesterday against what they see as Washington forcing Taipei to open its doors to the importation of US beef containing the leanness-enhancing drug ractopamine.
Photo: Chen Ping-hung, Taipei Times

A group of activists demonstrated at the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) yesterday to protest what they called Washington’s high-handed attitude in forcing Taiwan to open its doors to US beef containing residues of the leanness-enhancing drug ractopamine.

The protest was organized by several civic groups, including the National Alliance for Food Safety and Citizen Congress Watch.

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Newsflash


Democratic Progressive Party caucus whip Ker Chien-ming, center, and his colleagues yesterday hold a press conference to criticize the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) for passing the buck for an ongoing legislative deadlock.
Photo: Chen Chih-chu, Taipei Times

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairman Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) is set to announce the party’s plan to initiate a no-confidence motion today against what it described as Presdient Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) administration’s destruction of the Constitution and political destabilization.

Su plans to skip the Double Ten National Day ceremony and to make the announcement at a press conference titled: “Action for democracy. No-confidence motion for the people,” DPP spokesperson Lin Chun-hsien (林俊憲) said after the party’s weekly Central Standing Committee meeting yesterday.