The Australian government says it has raised concerns directly with China over the country’s new ethnic unity law, which allows Beijing to target people overseas. China’s Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion law, which comes into effect next week, is designed to create a “shared” national identity among the country’s 55 ethnic minority groups, including Tibetans…
Hon Wing, 77, and his family climbed 19 floors to their fire-ravaged flat in Hong Kong’s Wang Fuk Court housing estate on Tuesday but left almost empty-handed after a two-hour search for valuables. Hon, a retired part-time taxi driver, had hoped to find a bag of change he kept during his work shifts, but “nothing…
Hong Kong should step up education on Chinese history and culture while highlighting security threats to cultivate public awareness about the need to defend the country, experts have said, as the nation’s legislature is set to pass a law promoting ethnic unity. The expert’s comments came ahead of the closing session of the 14th National…
China has previously criticised the role, accusing the US of interfering in China’s internal affairs. Listen to this article | 3 mins info Published On 18 Feb 202618 Feb 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced that the Trump administration has appointed an envoy to the…
The political leader of Dharamshala-based Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), Sikyong Penpa Tsering, while calling for the resolution of the Sino-Tibet conflict, said that the policies by China is downgrading the status of Tibet. ikyong Penpa Tsering. (File) In his remarks, at the 6th Geneva Forum which concluded on February 10, Tsering called for continued support…
BEIJING (AP) — Beijing on Monday criticized the Dalai Lama ’s first Grammy win, describing the music industry award for an audiobook, narration and storytelling as “a tool for anti-China political manipulation.” The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, who lives in exile in India, took the award on Sunday for his book, “Meditations: The Reflections of…
A wave of online discussion blaming China’s last imperial dynasty for national historical sufferings has prompted official criticism after touching on sensitive questions, and ignited debate over historical narrative, nationalism and social governance. What began as a fringe literary interpretation of an 18th-century classical novel has evolved in recent weeks to become a viral internet…
Washington, D.C. — Tibetan government-in-exile leader Penpa Tsering appealed to the global community last week to support the region, asserting that the Chinese government is orchestrating a calculated obliteration of Tibetan identity through pervasive suppression and cultural dismantlement. “They are trying to eliminate Tibetan identity altogether,” Tsering said during a National Press Club Headliners event on Oct. 29….
A section of a newly opened bridge collapsed in a mountainous area of Sichuan province in southwestern China on Tuesday, with no casualties reported. Videos circulating on social media showed part of the Shuangjiangkou Hongqi Bridge over a river in the city of Maerkang give way, unleashing a thick cloud of dust and debris. The…
A 2,500-foot bridge partially collapsed in China following a landslide on the mountain where it was built. The Honqi Bridge was only just completed earlier this year. It was part of a highway that links Sichuan and the nation’s heartland with Tibet. The bridge was reopened only months before its collapse. X Harrowing video of…