January 2016
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China Forced Taiwan Pop Star To Apologize For Waving Taiwan Flag
Chou Tzu-yu, a 16 year old Taiwanese pop star was forced to make an apology to China for hold Taiwan flag on Korean Television. The singer was seen holding a small Taiwan flag alongside a Korean flag to identify herself as a Taiwanese pop star on the Korean Television. This led to her accusing of…
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Tsai Ing-wen Swept Taiwan
Tsai Ing-wen and her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) swept Taiwan in both 2016 presidential and parliamentary election with 56.12 percent of the votes. Eric Chu of ruling Kuomintang candidate conceded his party’s defeat and wished Ms. Tsai good luck. President Tsai’s election indicates the growing feeling among people in Taiwan on their identity as Taiwanese…
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Taiwan Gets Its First Women President In Its Historic Election
Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen has been elected Taiwan’s first ever female president. The DDP she represented demands Taiwan’s independence from China. In this turn-over result of elections, Ms. Tsai not only becomes the first ever women president for the country, it also broke the trait of almost 70 years long monopoly…
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Saudi Court Sentences Poet To Death For Renouncing Islam
Ashraf Fayadh, a Palestinian poet and artist who hails from Saudi Arabia, has been sentenced to death for ‘apostasy’. The Saudi Arabian authorities charged him for his poetry claiming that the poems questioned religion and spread atheism. On 17 November, 2015, the General Court in Abha, southwest of Saudi Arabia, charged Ashraf guilty of ‘apostasy’…
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Mao Ze GONE: Newly Built Giant Mao Statue Destroyed
The controversial gold-painted statue of communist founding father Mao Zedong has been destroyed after it apparently lacked government approval. Right after the news of the statue circulated on the internet, the elegant gold painted giant effigy was seen destroyed as the picture shown above on the right side. People’s news portal had cited that the…
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Tibetan Settlement Leader Suicides In Mundgod
The Head of Doeguling Tibetan Settlement Camp No. 1 in Mundgod has committed suicide on 13th Jan, 2015 by hanging himself. Mr. Yeshi Jungney, a former solder of Special Frontier Force is allegedly said to have committed suicide due his dissatisfaction in justification with a monk of the very same settlement who had manhandled him…
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Govt. Directs Tibetan Language To Be Treated Equal With Chinese
In Rebgong county of Qinghai’s Malho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, the government has issued a notice on Jan. 11 in Chinese language that all institutions; government offices, schools and state-owned businesses to use both Tibetan and Chinese languages in equal status on their official seals, signboards, letterhead and all other forms of communication.
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This Is Why I Look Up To Japan
The Japan Railways that is operating the national railways in Japan planned to shut down the Kami-Shirataki station after its passenger foot-falls completely declined, owing to its remote location, the authorities noticed that the station was still being used by the little girl to reach her school everyday. This ticked the authorities to postpone the…
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The Mao Zedong of China Still Alive In Statues?
Though Mao tops the list of largest number people slaughtering leaders in the history of the world, many Chinese still worship him by honouring his name across the country. It is still a doubt to the outsiders whether the Chinese still considers Mao did 70%-80% things good in his entire life genuinely or in fear…
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Assassination Bids On Dalai Lama From China
There have been many events of Chinese spies being caught scouting in and around Dharamshala by the Indian intelligence. Threats to the life of His Holiness from the China hired agents have not been unseen in the history too. Right from March 1959 in Tibet when the Chinese tried to kidnap His Holiness the Dalai…