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About 15 million residents in southern China have been affected by the worst flooding in decades in parts of the region as abnormally intense rainfall has swept away buildings and ruined homes. Residents in a flooded area were evacuated this week after heavy rain in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing.Credit... More

Campaigner Simon Cheng, granted asylum in UK, says shadow parliament would send ‘clear signal’ to Beijing Police officers detain a protester during a rally against a new national security law on the 23rd anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong from the UK to China Photograph: Miguel Candela/EPA Reuters | 3 July 2020 | Read original news here Hong Kong pro-democracy activists are discussing a More

By International Campaign for Tibet. June 30, 2020. Read original news here.   The chairman of the International Campaign for Tibet spoke before a Senate subcommittee Tuesday about how Chinese censorship hurts US interests, particularly when it comes to Chinese-occupied Tibet. More

Yi-Zheng Lian for The New York Times. Read the original article here. After many years of rejecting the people of Hong Kong’s persistent demands for genuine universal suffrage and other rights, China made its position clear again on Tuesday with the legislative equivalent of a cracking head bash. More

By Vivian Wang and Alexandra Stevenson| New York Times| July 1, 2020 | Read original news here HONG KONG — The Hong Kong police moved swiftly on Wednesday to enforce China’s new national security rules with the first arrests under the law, as the city immediately felt the chilling effect of Beijing’s offensive to quash dissent in the semiautonomous territory. More

By Yoshita Singh, PTI. July 1, 2020. Read original news here. More

AlJazeera| 30 June 2020| Read original news here Law expected to come into force on July 1 in most radical change to semi-autonomous territory since 1997 handover. More

Lobsang Sangay, president of the Tibetan government-in-exile based in the northern Indian hill town of Dharamsala, said China’s expansionist policy had resulted in a renewed focus on the Tibetans’ struggle for autonomy and India had a unique role to play. Reuters| June 30, 2020| Read original news here. More

Sahil Mishra| Times of India| 26 June 2020| Read the original article here It has been just about 23 years since the People’s Republic of China assumed sovereignty over Hong Kong from Great Britain. Under the One Country, Two Systems Principle, Hong Kong was to remain a unique model of governance which would enjoy a “high degree of autonomy”. More

Ananya Varma| Republic World| 29 June 2020| Read original news here President of Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) Dr Lobsang Sangay on Monday called for the need to hold a UNHRC session over China's blatant human rights violations saying that it was time to hold China 'accountable. More

Shubhajit Roy| Indian Express| 29 June 2020| Read original news here President of Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) Lobsang Sangay has “strongly urged” the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and its member-countries to hold a special session to evaluate “human rights violations” being carried out by China. More

OpIndia| 29 June 2020| Read original news here After slamming China for its “expansionist policies” and issuing a warning to Nepal regarding Chinese combativeness, Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) has now asked the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to hold a special session on “human right violations” by China in Tibet and other regions under it. More

Sanjeev Miglani| Reuters| 29 June 2020| Read original news here NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The political leader of Tibetans in exile on Monday urged India to take a more prominent role in resolving the Tibetan issue with China, an appeal that could further inflame tensions between the two Asian giants. More

By Associated Press| Washington Post| June 30, 2020| Read original news here NEW DELHI — India on Monday banned 59 apps with Chinese links, saying their activities endanger the country’s sovereignty, defense and security. India’s decision comes as its troops are involved in a tense standoff with Chinese soldiers in eastern Ladakh in the Himalayas that started last month. More

Geeta Mohan| India Today| 29 June 2020| Read original news here In yet another new move to claim land in Bhutan, China at the 58th meeting of the Global Environment Facility Council tried to "oppose" funding to a project for the Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary situated in Bhutan saying that it was "disputed" territory. More

Deccan Herald. Read the original article here. India should raise the Tibet issue in bilateral talks with China and make it one of its core issues, Lobsang Sangay, the head of the Tibetan government in exile, on Monday said, amid the Sino-India standoff in eastern Ladakh. More

The protest was called at a time when Chinese President Xi Jinping is being criticized globally for a dictatorial style of working. DNA India. June 29, 2020. Read original news here. Several human rights activists of various nationalities, including Japanese, Indians, Taiwanese, Tibetans and others, staged a demonstration against China at Hachiko statue near Shibuya station in Tokyo on Sunday. More

By Vishal Gulati| IANS| Jun 27, 2020| read original news here The military aggression across the Himalayas is not the first by China and it won't be the last. India never shared a border with China -- it is the Indo-Tibet border. Knowing its strategic significance, India should consider the geopolitical importance of Tibet as one of its core issues. More

The Quint| 27 June 2020| Read original news here “India has faced more tensions after recognising Tibet as a part of China,” says Dr Lobsang Sangay, President of the Central Tibetan Administration also known as the Tibetan government-in-exile. More

Mongolian identity and culture are being slowly and silently attacked in what Mongols prefer to call Southern Mongolia. The world needs to pay attention. More