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Breaking: Tibetan teen burns self to death, Toll climbs to 79

Phayul.com

DHARAMSHALA, November 23: In no respite to the spate of self-immolations inside Tibet, another Tibetan teenager passed away in his fiery protest Thursday, November 22.

In confirmed reports received by Phayul, Lubum Gyal, 18, set himself ablaze in Dowa town of Rebkong, eastern Tibet at around 4:20 pm (local time) in an apparent protest against China’s continued occupation of Tibet.

The state of affairs in Taiwan is very simple

Mei-chin Chen 陳美津

Taiwan’s policy toward China can be very simple. Most Taiwanese would agree with the three following points:

One, China needs to remove missiles aimed at Taiwan and reduce the military threat against its democratic neighbor.

Two, China needs to respect Taiwan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

And three, China needs to give Taiwan more international space and stop blocking its membership in international organizations.

Breaking: Another Tibetan burns self to death, Toll reaches 78

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Tibetan self-immolator Tsering Dhondup in an undated photo.

DHARAMSHALA, November 20: In more alarming reports coming out of Tibet another Tibetan set himself on fire today in Amchok region of eastern Tibet in an apparent protest against China’s continued occupation of Tibet.

Tsering Dhondup, 35, set himself ablaze on a ground near the entrance of a mining site in Amchok region of Labrang Sangchu at around 8:30 am (local time). He succumbed to his injuries at the site of his protest.

Obama pushes change on Myanmar visit

Taipei Times

U.S. President Barack Obama kisses Aung San Suu Kyi following joint remarks at her residence in Yangon, President Obama became the first serving U.S. president to visit Myanmar on Monday.
Photo: Reuters

US President Barack Obama urged Myanmar yesterday to hasten its “remarkable” reforms on a historic visit during which he was feted by huge crowds and met democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi at the home where she was long locked up.

The trip, the first to Myanmar by a serving US president, came as the country’s regime freed dozens more political prisoners to burnish its reform credentials and after the US joined other Western powers in relaxing its sanctions.

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