Sikkim vies to become a Tribal State


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Sikkim Mail Silash Tamang Gangtok, November 18, 2011: All the communities of Sikkim must remain united if Sikkim is to ever be a tribal state. Someone has rightly said ‘strength lies in unity’. It is a challenge for all the Nepalese communities of Sikkim, who live in diaspora, playing ice …

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Wen Jiabao: Assures India; Proposes 6-point agenda for ASEAN


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BALI (INDONESIA): While the United States, given its recent stance and statements with respect to China, can be said to be deliberately driving a wage between China and India and ASEAN, the Premiers of the two countries met on Friday to ensure that the situation doesn’t deteriorate. China and India …

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Chinese Daily: India trying to contain China ignoring itself


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In an article published in The China Youth Daily, the official newspaper of Communist Youth League of China (CYL) [(a youth movement of the People's Republic of China], two Chinese authors have argued that India’s increasing troop on the Indo-China border is yet another proof of India trying to contain …

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Phodong Monastery prepares for Lhabab Duechen


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Sikkim Mail Gangtok: November 15, 2011 The Karma Thupten Tashi Choling Monastery (Phodong Monastery) is all set to host the commemoration of first Karmapa Duesum Khempa the supreme lineage holder of Buddha’s teaching on 17th November 2011. This yearLhabab Duechen is coinciding with the Iron-Rabbit year. The celebration will be …

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China arming ULFA? Is NE China’s new anti-India frontier?


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Reports have been trickling in from various sources that the leader of the anti-talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) Paresh Barua is now firmly entrenched in the Chinese border town of Ruili. So is China opening another front, after it started meddling with India’s long standing …

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Standing true to his promise made on November 1, 2011, Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling wrote today to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to let His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Thinley Dorje visit Sikkim during Lhabab Dhuechen festival this year. The CM had promised this while addressing the public …

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Sikkim Liberation Party asks Center to clarify its intentions


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Sikkim Liberation Party writes to Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh requesting Govt. of India to handle the Himalayan state with good intentions. Following is the text of the letter: To The Honorable Prime Minister Govt. of India Sub: Demand to the Union Govt. of India to make its stand and …

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Kathmandu, Nov 9: Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao is likely to visit Nepal in December this year. The visit comes after Nepal’s major political parties reached a seven-point agreement to conclude the five year long peace process earlier this month. The deal allows 6,500 UCPN-Maoists combatants to be integrated into …

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Press Release: Karmapa Office 9th November 2011 Since March this year 11 brave Tibetans have set themselves on fire while calling for freedom in Tibet and the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to his homeland. These desperate acts, carried out by people with pure motivation, are a cry …

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Kathmandu: Nepal has nominated senior Maoist leader Ram Karki as the country’s new Ambassador to India. The Cabinet on Tuesday also appointed Mahesh Kumar Maskey and Dhananjaya Jha the ambassadors to China and the UAE respectively. Nepal cabinet also approved an agreement to end the dual tax system with India …

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