The Olympic torch has been taken to Lhasa in a firm demonstration of authority. Normal service has been resumed.
Posts Tagged as ‘Tibet’
April 30, 2008
Carrefour Searches Blocked By Censors
China’s Internet censors have blocked searches on the name Carrefour, China Tech News reports.
The French superstore chain that is one of the largest foreign retailers operating in China with sales of €3 billion ($4.6 billion) last year, was the target of anti-French demonstrations earlier this month in retaliation for pro-Tibet protests when the Olympic Torch [...]
April 25, 2008
China To Meet Dalai Lama’s Envoys
China says it will meet the Dalai Lama’s envoys. It is a change of tactics in what has been a campaign to vilify the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader since the anti government protests started in March, though Xinhua claims the door of dialogue has remained open.
China has been under international pressure to talk to the [...]
April 21, 2008
Paris Honors The Dalai Lama
After a weekend of intensifying anti-French protests in China in response to the pro-Tibet protests in the French capital on Apr. 7 when the Olympic torch was there, the Paris city council has bestowed the title of “honorary citizen” on the Dalai Lama. This may be taking Gallic insouciance a step too far.
Update: “The [...]
April 8, 2008
China’s PR Problem
Beijing is searching for a Western public relations company to buff its international image in the wake of the continuing Tibet protests, according to PR Week. This would, Bystander assumes, be over and above Hill & Knowlton’s engagement by the Beijing Organizing Committee.
Beijing’s usual way of dealing with public criticism by foreigners is a combination [...]
April 5, 2008
New Reports Of Tibetan Protests In Western China
New reports of continuing Tibetan unrest despite the crackdown following mid-March’s Lhasa protests.
Police fired on hundreds of protesters in Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan, killing eight people, according to the London-based Free Tibet Campaign and the International Campaign for Tibet. The protesters were demanding the release of two monks who were detained after 3,000 [...]
March 30, 2008
Olympic Flame Comes With Tibetan Protests
Despite unprecedented attempts to ensure a protest-free hand over of the Olympic flame to the organizers of the Beijing Olympics, Greek police scuffled with pro-Tibet demonstrators gathered outside the Athens stadium where the ceremonial transfer was due to take place.
On Tuesday the flame formally sets off from Beijing for the Kazakhstan capital, Almaty, the [...]
March 28, 2008
Tearing Up The Script In Tibet
The best laid plans…
The tightly scripted official tour of Tibet for a group of foreign journalists ran amok for 5 mins in Jokhang, Tibet’s holiest temple. Thirty young monks surrounded the tour party and shouted that there was no religious freedom in the region, that the government was lying about who was responsible for the [...]
March 26, 2008
Foreign Press Taken To Tibet
A group of Beijing-based foreign correspondents has been being escorted to Lhasa to report on the situation there, Xinhua reports. This 26-strong “international media delegation” includes representatives of the AP, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Russian, Japanese and Taiwanese news agencies, al-Jazeera and the South China Morning Post. TV media such as [...]
March 25, 2008
Fact Checking Two Views Of Tibet
Xinhua annotates screen shots from Western TV and websites to show up reporting errors in their coverage of Tibet.
This follows Sunday’s apology by German TV station RTL for using a picture of Tibetan protestors in Katmandu in a report on the recent disturbances in Lhasa.
More Xinhua excoriation of the CNN, BBC and the Berliner [...]
