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Thich Nhat Hanh, Vancouver, 2011

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Thich Nhat Hanh, world-honoured Vietnamese Zen Master, peace activist, and inspirational teacher, will be in Vancouver in August 2011. Here is the information about his visit, from his hosts – the University of British Columbia… NOTE: This information is updated in other posts on Sumeru. Use the search button in the upper right corner of... Read more »

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Uyghur web moderators jailed for life

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Perhaps you take your freedom to surf for granted. Please reconsider; China recently sentenced three Uyghur webmasters to life in prison for purported crimes against the state. Here is the link from Dossier Tibet: http://www.dossiertibet.it/node/10817

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Gyantse Journal: China in Tibet

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The New York Times recently published an article about how China has re-cast the 1904 British invasion of Tibet for their own propaganda purposes. In their version, the Tibetans are “stand-ins” for the Chinese who were oppressed by foreign powers during the Qing dynasty. The Tibetan resistance has been glorified with a museum, a block-buster... Read more »

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S.N. Goenka @ UN Peace Summit

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An enlightening short video of Goenka’s speach to the UN Peace Summit in 2009.

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Shadows in the Cloud

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The Information Warfare Monitor/ (Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto and the SecDev Group, Ottawa) and the Shadowserver Foundation announce the release of Shadows in the Cloud: An investigation into cyber espionage 2.0. The report can be downloaded from any of their websites. This report exposes a Chinese-based espionage ring that has preyed upon HH... Read more »

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