China sets up village in Bhutan near Doklam

Satellite image of China-Bhutan border in the disputed region of Doklam (Photo- CNN)

By Choekyi Lhamo DHARAMSHALA, Nov. 24: China has reportedly set up a village 2 km within Bhutan’s territory near Doklam where the Indo-China stand-off took place in 2017, according to satellite images published in a Chinese state media on Thursday. In the tweets that were since deleted, Shen Shiwei from Chinese CGTN News posted the […]

Pope Francis breaks silence, calls Uyghur Muslims “persecuted”

By Tenzin Dharpo DHARAMSHALA, Nov. 24: The head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State Pope Francis has called the Muslim Uyghurs a “persecuted” people in a new book, overturning his silence over the treatment of the ethnic minority under the Chinese regime. “I think often of persecuted peoples: the Rohingya, […]