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2010-03-18: Headlines

2010-03-17: Headlines

2010-03-16: Headlines

  • TMCnet: The Almanac -- weekly 2010-03-16
    Also in 2008, the Dalai Lama said he would resign as Tibetan spiritual leader if violent protests by his people against China continued.
  • Your Ottawa Region: Young philanthropist earns trip to Washington 2010-03-16
    Through Free the Children, he has visited Africa and even met the Dalai Lama in Vancouver last fall. But Kurylowicz will always remember when his son raised ...
  • OregonLive.com: Thinking globally, acting locally 2010-03-16
    ... which previously had lodged sharp protests with the Obama administration over his meeting with the Dalai Lama and US arms sales to Taiwan.
  • Asia Times Online: Panchen Lama enters political arena 2010-03-16
    Panchen Lama will more effectively keep the the influence of the exiled Dalai Lama in check among Tibetans. Traditionally, the Panchen Lama is respected ...
  • Huffington Post: Google's China Exit: When Business and Human Rights Converge 2010-03-16
    ... in Baidu vs. other Chinese search products, or why you'll see blog posts mentioning the words "Dalai Lama" on one blogging platform but not another.
  • Reuters: CORRECTED - UPDATE 5-US lawmakers press for action on China currency 2010-03-16
    ... for a deterioration in US-China ties because of US weapon sales to Taiwan and Obama's meeting with Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, last month.
  • TMC Net: Google likely to shut down China engine 2010-03-16
    China requires search engines to censor results by filtering out material on the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, the Dalai Lama, Human Rights Watch ...
  • National Post: National Post editorial board: Memo to Google — get out of China 2010-03-16
    Search for “Chinese human rights abuses” or “Dalai Lama” off of Google.com, and you will get a long list of unfiltered search results.
  • National Post: Memo to Google: Get out of China 2010-03-16
    Search for "Chinese human rights abuses" or "Dalai Lama" off of Google.com,and you will get a long list of unfiltered search results.
  • Pravda: Saakashvili Involved in Paranoid Virtual War against Russia 2010-03-16
    They could have me talking with the Pope or Dalai Lama over the phone. We did not intend to intimidate the public. We wanted to show the danger ...
  • Monday Morning: china, tibet: Beijing indicates hard line on Dalai Lama succession 2010-03-16
    China has indicated it will take a hard line on the selection of a successor to the ageing Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in rare comments on ...
  • Financial Express: Lawmakers press for tough action 2010-03-16
    ... for deterioration in US-China ties because of US weapon sales to Taiwan and Obama's meeting with Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, last month.
  • Jakarta Globe: Chinese Premier Lambastes US 2010-03-16
    Then last month, Obama met the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, at the White House. Beijing says the Buddhist monk is bent on independence ...
  • Financial Times: Imports top Obama's Beijing concerns 2010-03-16
    ... a meeting between President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, and a dispute between Google and Beijing.
  • Moneycontrol.com: Obama to seek deeper Asia-Pacific ties 2010-03-16
    ... are high over Beijing's currency practices, US arms sales to Taiwan and Obama's meeting last month with exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
  • Business Mirror: Religious advocates heed call of new media 2010-03-16
    On February 22 the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, officially opened a Twitter account that now has more than 157000 followers.
  • Straits Times: US calls for action on yuan 2010-03-16
    ... a deterioration in US-China ties because of US weapon sales to Taiwan and Mr Obama's meeting with Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, last month.
  • Ekklesia: Truth commission on conscience in war to meet in US 2010-03-16
    Past speakers include: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., President William J. Clinton, the Dalai Lama, Fidel Castro, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela.
  • CNBC: Farrell: With Allies Like These... 2010-03-16
    President Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama is another source of tension and China is now making no secret of its disdain of US financial/economic ...
  • Comtex Smartrend: SMARTREND NEWS & MARKET ANALYSIS 2010-03-16
    Mr Wen also said that recent strains in ties with the US were Washington's fault, citing arms sales to Taiwan and a White House visit by the Dalai Lama.
  • AFP: US Senate bill to punish China over currency 2010-03-16
    ... sale of billions of dollars in weapons to Taiwan in January, and again when US President Barack Obama met the Dalai Lama at the White House last month.
  • Radio Free Asia: Tibetan Students Stage Protest 2010-03-16
    “Some of them shouted for the long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and demanded resolution of the Sino-Tibetan dialogue,” said Dolkar Kyab ...
  • Phayul: Former Tibet governer tows Beijing's line over Dalai Lama's succesion 2010-03-16
    ”It is ultimately up to the Tibetan people, I made clear, whether this very institution should continue or not”, the 14th Dalai Lama told media on a vi ...
  • Stockhouse: A one-year anniversary, bad psychics and penny stocks 2010-03-16
    According to the star-gazing stock market prognosticator, Sean David Morton, the Dalai Lama sent him to a monastery where he was trained by Nepalese monk ...
  • Stuff.co.nz: Luck of the Irish 2010-03-16
    Dalai Lama Week: Magic mushrooms, rubber baldy-caps, and saffron robes. Vodka shots for anyone saying "China". Tamaki Tuesday: People dress in leather ...
  • Dun & Bradstreet Small Business: The risks of a double dip recession in China 2010-03-16
    ... new US arms sales to Taiwan, the self-ruled island China claims as its own territory, and Obama's meeting in the White House with the Dalai Lama.
  • Great Falls Tribune: Dalai Lama to visit Montana 2010-03-16
    MISSOULA (AP) — The Dalai Lama has accepted an invitation to come to Montana to consecrate the Garden of 1000 Buddhas in Arlee. Officials with Ewam Mont ...
  • The Big Money: First Bailout Fraud Unlikely To Be the Last 2010-03-16
    Ties between the United States and China have been strained partly because Obama met with the Dalai Lama in February and partly because the United State ...
  • Mangalorean.com: Woodstock, Matagiri and Karma Triyana Dharmachakra 2010-03-16
    I came to know that this was a monastery that was visited by the Dalai Lama himself a few years before! This was a day of surprises for me, I thought.
  • The Missoulian: Dalai Lama coming to Missoula, Arlee 2010-03-16
    The Dalai Lama is the 14th Dalai Lama,and the first to travel extensively outside of Tibet. Born Tenzin Gyatso in 1935, he was recognized as the next Dalai ...
  • China Daily: Beijing's top envoy to Washington takes charge 2010-03-16
    ... of strained ties between the two countries over issues ranging from arms sales to Taiwan to US President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama.
  • Missoula Independent: Holy Holiness, Batman! 2010-03-16
    According to a joint press release sent out by trip organizers last night, the Dalai Lama is scheduled to visit the Garden of 1000 Buddhas in Arlee.
  • Zee News: US-China relations: Kissinger in Beijing 2010-03-16
    The Chinese leader was referring to Washington's announcement of weapon sales to Taiwan, President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama and trade ...
  • Khabrein.info: Swiss federal council rejects meeting with the Dalai Lama 2010-03-16
    The Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey had announced yesterday that none of the Swiss federal council will meet the Dalai Lama during his next vi ...
  • Kashmir Watch: :. Gimcrack India Bluffing Global Powers 2010-03-16
    Manmohan Singh also tried to persuade American authorities to permit Dalai Lama to visit US. But at this occasion, according to Indian think tanks due ...
  • Sarasota Herald-Tribune: US late to party at Shanghai's World Expo 2010-03-16
    ... over US arms sales to Taiwan, President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama, trade issues and China's handling of the Iran nuclear issue.
  • Northwest Asian Weekly: China PM defends assertive trade, foreign policy 2010-03-16
    Likewise, he said the recent White House reception to Tibet's exiled Dalai Lama and US arms sale to Taiwan “caused serious disturbance in relations.
  • Vancouver Sun: U.S. foreign policy confuses and disappoints 2010-03-16
    Its outraged reaction to both the weapons sales and Obama's subsequent and politically tentative meeting with the Dalai Lama have been far louder and more ...
  • Mmegi Online: China's bad bet against America 2010-03-16
    China objected to President Barack Obama's receiving the Dalai Lama in the White House, as well as to the administration's arms sales to Taiwan.
  • Mmegi Online: China denies currency undervalued 2010-03-16
    Wen also said that recent strains in ties with the US were Washington's fault, citing arms sales to Taiwan and a White House visit by the Dalai Lama.
  • Seeking Alpha: Tariff on Chinese Goods to Combat Yuan Peg - Problematic but Necessary 2010-03-16
    The Chinese even tried to dictate that Obama not meet with the Dalai Lama. Their economic imperialism (sometimes called mercantilism) is one factor pushing ...
  • China Daily: Wen stands firm on yuan 2010-03-16
    Beijing and Washington have also been at odds recently over the $6.4 billion US arms sales to Taiwan, and US President Barack Obama meeting the Dalai Lama.
  • People's Daily Online: American experience fails to help them understand Tibet 2010-03-16
    A lot of Chinese people do not understand why some Westerners hold demonstrations on the streets to support the Dalai Lama and protest China's policies ...
  • Armenian Reporter: Armenian-Turkish reconciliation can only come from truth 2010-03-16
    Margaret Ajemian Ahnert shares a copy of her book with the Dalai Lama. Courtesy photo New York - In my opinion members ...
  • Seattle Times: 'Uptight Seattleite' not so uptight after all 2010-03-16
    Q: On a scale of one to 10 — one being the Dalai Lama on Xanax in a bubble bath, and 10 being Jim Cramer after a pot of coffee and a humiliating beating ...
  • BusinessWeek: Britain's Miliband visits China amid rancor 2010-03-16
    ... tension over US arms sales to Taiwan, President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama, trade issues and China's handling of the Iran nuclear issue.
  • Xinhua: White House: US-China ties in "good shape" 2010-03-16
    ... a time China-US relations were at a low point due to the recent announcement of US arms sales to Taiwan and Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama last month.
  • UNM Daily Lobo: Dalai Lama Renaissance, Vol 2 2010-03-16
    What is it like meeting the Dalai Lama and speaking with him about facing the challenges of our time? What are the Dalai Lama's solutions to the world ...
  • The Big Money: First Bailout Fraud Unlikely the Last 2010-03-16
    Ties between the US and China have been strained partly because Obama met with the Dalai Lama in February, and partly because the US sold weapons to Taiwan.
  • Channel Television: Alice in Wonderland 2010-03-16
    (Presumably China has forgiven Disney for bankrolling Martin Scorsese's Dalai Lama biopic Kundun.) Perhaps we'll see a sequel in which Alice is involved ...

2010-03-15: Headlines

  • ChicagoNow: Give up control- and "allow" ... 2010-03-15
    I'm an Emmy Award winning journalist who left my job with CBS to "find myself"- then wrote a book, performed a one woman show, and had a son.
  • NASDAQ: White House Official: US-China Relationship 'In Good Shape' 2010-03-15
    ... fronts--a US arms deal with Taiwan, Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama, and Washington's hopes that China will adopt a more flexible currency system.
  • OregonLive.com: Portland, Tibet and China: the cost of "our city's principles" - Hillsboro Argus 2010-03-15
    It continued to support the Dalai Lama, the symbol of the Tibetan independence movement, with grants of 1.7 million dollars a year through at least ...
  • The Spoof: Dalai Lama Sets Off Dhia-Rumpus On Campus! 2010-03-15
    A special visit to Borea College in Arkansas by the Dalai Lama to endorse the methods of peace, wound up giving 90% of the students the diarrhea.
  • Huffington Post: The 'Future of God' Debate 2010-03-15
    When I meditate with His Holiness [the Dalai Lama], I feel as if the deep rivers of our respective traditions are meeting and becoming a mighty flood ...
  • Washington Post: Newly powerful China defies Western nations with remarks, policies 2010-03-15
    ... more than a decade, condemning recent US decisions to sell weapons to Taiwan and to have President Obama meet the exiled Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama.
  • Washington Post: Lawmakers press for action on China currency 2010-03-15
    ... for a deterioration in US-China ties because of US weapon sales to Taiwan and Obama's meeting with Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, last month.
  • Herald de Paris: CHINA: No revaluation of yuan, says Wen 2010-03-15
    Wen accused Washington of violating China's sovereignty in inviting Tibet's Dalai Lama to he White House and selling arms toTaiwan.
  • Reuters: China's Wen pushes back against yuan rise calls 2010-03-15
    ... island China claims as its own territory, and Obama's meeting in the White House with the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader reviled by Beijing.
  • USA Today: Our opinion: Obama promises openness, delivers a mixed bag 2010-03-15
    And, in apparent deference to touchy diplomatic issues with China, when the Dalai Lama visited Obama recently, the meeting was private and only a single ...
  • Taipei Times: Control Yuan denies investigating use of funds during visit of Dalai Lama 2010-03-15
    “The Control Yuan is not specifically probing the Dalai Lama's visit,” he said. Hsu was responding to allegations by Liang Wen-chieh (???)
  • Spiegel Online: Obama Unites Israelis and Arabs in Disappointment 2010-03-15
    ... he has voiced only timid support for human rights in China, and he did not agree to meet with the Dalai Lama until after a second request had been made.
  • TechFlash: Amazon sidesteps questions on China 2010-03-15
    The Dalai Lama? A list of books that portray him as a dangerous “splittist” or that refer to the Chinese government's hand-picked spiritual leader ...
  • Vancouver Sun: Chinese premier defends yuan's value and role in global financial recovery 2010-03-15
    He cited the recent US arms sale to Taiwan and Barack Obama's meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama as violations of China' ...
  • Stuff.co.nz: US politicians demand action on yuan 2010-03-15
    ... deterioration in US-China ties because of US weapon sales to Taiwan and President Barack Obama's meeting with Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
  • China Post: Protester arrested in HK for pro-Tibet sit-in 2010-03-15
    ... was marking the 51st anniversary of a failed uprising against Chinese rule that forced Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to flee into exile.
  • The Vancouver Observer: Nominating the Internet for a Peace Prize: What an ig-Nobel idea! 2010-03-15
    Anwar Sadat, Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Mother Theresa, Henry Kissinger, Martin Luther King Jr., and Canada's Lester B. Pearson have all been among ...
  • People's Daily Online: China leaves door open for currency reform 2010-03-15
    ... Obama administration for meeting the Dalai Lama, a widely believed separatist figure in China, and selling US$6.4 billion package of weapons to Taiwan.
  • Xinhua: Chinese vice premier urges US to respect China's core interests 2010-03-15
    ... refering to Washington's announcement of weapon sales to Taiwan, President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama, and trade disputes between ...
  • YBNY – You're Beautiful, New York.: McFerrin, Glass honor Tibet 2010-03-15
    Phillip Glass played "Mad Rush," a piece he debuted at St. John the Divine in the 1970s to in honor of the Dalai Lama. The song echoed through the tall ...
  • The Associated Press: Britain's Miliband visits China amid rancor 2010-03-15
    ... tension over US arms sales to Taiwan, President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama, trade issues and China's handling of the Iran nuclear issue.
  • Market News International: Analysts:Rhetoric Heats Up Re China FX Policy - Little Action 2010-03-15
    "With arm sales to Taiwan, Dalai Lama meeting, and the Copenhagen climate talks all important areas for questions, the very first question he (Wen) w ...
  • Phayul: Carrot and Stick - China's Formula In Tibet And Xinjiang 2010-03-15
    Desperate to win over the Tibetans, Beijing projects its own Panchen Lama as a possible successor of the Dalai Lama. But this tactical move can only create ...
  • Global Times: Google denies 'exit China' rumor 2010-03-15
    A series of conflicts between the two powers, ranging from the US move to sell arms to Taiwan and US President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lam ...
  • NTDTV: Tibetans Rally in Taipei, Taiwan for Uprising Anniversary 2010-03-15
    Tibet supporters gathered at Taipei City center, holding up banners and pictures of the Dalai Lama, before marching down the street for a demonstration.
  • Forexrazor: The China Currency Debate Heats Up 2010-03-15
    ... particularly in light of developments on Taiwan arms sales, visits with the Dalai Lama, and Google's (GOOG) imminent departure from the country.
  • News Trends: When China speaks its mind 2010-03-15
    ... worse still, the “rape of Chinese sovereignty “by the United States because of arms sales to Taiwan and the visit of the Dalai Lama in Washington.
  • CNBC: Busch: Wen Answers The Call 2010-03-15
    With arm sales to Taiwan, Dalai Lama meeting, and the Copenhagen climate talks all important areas for questions, the very first question he was asked ...
  • KELOLAND TV: Buddhists In Our Backyard 2010-03-15
    Last month, golfer Tiger Woods ended his long silence and publicly admitted to extramarital affairs. Woods' televised apology also included ...
  • Neoseeker: Chinese gov't wary of Google's threat to ease censorship 2010-03-15
    Currently, there is a big list of topics that Google is compelled not to functionally link to, such as the terms 'democracy', the 'Dalai Lama'
  • Earthtimes: First Truth Commission on Conscience in War To Be Convened at the Historic ... 2010-03-15
    Past speakers include: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., President William J. Clinton, the Dalai Lama, Fidel Castro, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela.
  • Contactmusic.com: GERE'S MARRIAGE TO CRAWFORD 'WASN'T PERFECT' 2010-03-15
    March marks the 50th anniversary since the Dalai Lama went to exile in India. Washington DC, U .... RICHARD GERE has opened up about his marriage to CINDY ...
  • GulfNews: Rise of a multipolar world 2010-03-15
    By meeting the Dalai Lama albeit in the White House Map Room, not the Oval Office and agreeing to sell arms to Taiwan, Obama was accused by the People' ...
  • EastDay.com: Wen stands firm on yuan 2010-03-15
    Beijing and Washington have also been at odds recently over the $6.4 billion US arms sales to Taiwan, and US President Barack Obama meeting the Dalai Lama.
  • AFP: China cuts back Treasury bond holdings amid tensions 2010-03-15
    ... sale of billions of dollars in weapons to Taiwan in January, and again when US President Barack Obama met the Dalai Lama at the White House last month.
  • The Associated Press: US lawmakers attack China ahead of Nov. elections 2010-03-15
    Despite the anger in Congress and Beijing's furious reaction over the Taiwan arms sale and the Dalai Lama, China appears eager to ease tensions ...
  • Hollywood Reporter: Rielle Hunter Still Has Hollywood Tales To Tell 2010-03-15
    Mooradian told me: “She definitely had some connection to the Dalai Lama and Richard Gere, and there was an offer to meet the Dalai Lama.
  • Khaleej Times: Don't Rock the Boat Now 2010-03-15
    There's too much shouting about Taiwan arms sales (basically irrelevant to the cross-strait balance of power), too much dancing over the Dalai Lama.
  • Globe and Mail: China fires back at currency critics 2010-03-15
    President Obama also refused to meet the Dalai Lama when he visited the US Observers took these moves as a sign that America no longer holds the cards ...
  • The Associated Press: China PM defends assertive trade, foreign policy 2010-03-15
    Wen also criticized Washington for souring relations with the recent White House reception for the Dalai Lama, the exiled leader of Chinese-controlled Tibet ...
  • Defiance Crescent News: World Briefs 2010-03-15
    ... to Chinese rival Taiwan and a meeting between Obama and the Dalai Lama, revered by millions but accused by Beijing of pushing for Tibetan independence.
  • Financial Times: Wen hits back on exchange rate 2010-03-15
    He said the tensions were due to Mr Obama's decisions to sell arms to Taiwan and to meet the Dalai Lama. The Chinese premier also responded to criticism ...
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