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Groups slam denial of Dalai Lama visit

Taipei Times

Tibet’s spiritual leader the Dalai Lama gestures as he delivers a speech at the upper house members’ office building in Tokyo, Japan, on Nov. 13.
Photo: AFP

Acting on the president’s instructions, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has again denied a visa to Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, who had been invited by an international group to attend its annual regional conference in Taipei next month, sparking outrage among various organizations in the country.

The Dalai Lama “is welcome to travel to Taiwan in due course. However, we need to arrange a more opportune time for his visit,” Minister of Foreign Affairs David Lin (林永樂) said in a letter, dated Friday last week, to Freda Miriklis, international president of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women (BPW International), the non-governmental organization behind the event.

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

Phayul.com

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.

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