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Beijing, Mar.8 (ANI): China has claimed the missing Panchen Lama is living in Tibet.
The son of a Tibetan herder, Gendun Choekyi Nyima was only 5 when the exiled Dalai Lama selected him as the reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.
Police swooped on the boy’s village in a county to the north of Lhasa and, pro-Tibet exiles [...]

Gaya (Bihar), Sep 14 (ANI): Rebels from a Maoist group in Bihar recently quit and joined another group after they alleged that the former group had high caste ideology.

Defected activists of the Communist Party India (Maoist), which operates in and around Bihar and Jharkhand, allege that the group [...]

Johannesburg, Sep.9 (ANI): South African athlete Caster Semenya has completed her transformation from gender troubled sporting champion into national celebrity with a photo shoot in the country’s leading gossip magazine.

While the controversy rumbles on over whether the teenage runner is really male or female, her handlers have sought to end the debate with the aid [...]

Imphal, July 1 (ANI): The killing of contractor Y. Krishnadas has evoked widespread condemnation in Manipur.

Denouncing the violent act, thousands of people including employees of the Kakching Municipal Council came out for a mass protest over the recent killing of Krishnadas.

Krishnadas was kidnapped on June 10 and a ransom of Rs. 2 crores was [...]

Imphal, June 23 (ANI): Suspected militants triggered off a powerful bomb blast recently in Imphal west district injuring two persons.

Residents’ fear that there seems to be no end to mindless violence unleashed by militants in the State. wo [...]

Imphal, May 26 (ANI): Dry fish traders in Manipur have been hit badly by the militants’ illogical extortion demands.

Militant outfits like Naga National Council (NNC), United National Liberation Front (UNLF), Kanglei Yawol Kunna Lup (KYKL), People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK), Kangleipak Communist [...]

Putrajaya, May 21 (ANI): Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz has said Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) leaders are no longer deemed a threat to Malaysia.

The Hindraf, which is a coalition of 30 [...]

Imphal, May 12 (ANI): People in Imphal have been hit hard due to militants targeting pharmacies with extortion demands.

Pharmacies that have become the latest target for militants in Manipur downed shutters across the state in protest against huge extortion demands made by the militants.

Around 40 chemist shops and medicine distributors remained closed in [...]

Hanoi – Vietnam will review the environmental and economic impact of controversial Chinese-backed bauxite mining projects in the country’s Central Highlands, Vietnamese press reported Monday. According to the state-owned Vietnam News, the decision came at a meeting of the Politburo of Vietnam’s Communist Party on April
16, but was not announced to the public until [...]

Lucknow, Apr 18 (ANI): Jaipal Pathik, a member of Rashtravadi (Nationalist) Communist Party (RCP) has found a unique way to campaign in his constituency, Mohanlal Ganj in Uttar Pradesh.

Considering that the farmers and their families are busy in fields and [...]

Americans Favor New Approach to Cuba: Lift the Travel Ban, Establish
Diplomatic Relations
COLLEGE PARK, Md., April 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A new
WorldPublicOpinion.org poll finds that a majority of Americans feel that it is
time to try a “new approach to Cuba.”
The study indicates most (70%) favor lifting the ban on American travel to
Cuba and re-establishing diplomatic relations [...]

Hanoi – The protests that forced the cancellation of the ASEAN summit in Thailand last weekend will likely lead Vietnam to move slower on political liberalization, experts said Monday. “Thailand used to be one of the democratic models for Vietnam, but these incidents in Thailand certainly will make Vietnamese leaders more cautious about democracy,” said [...]

Chisinau/Kiev – Opponents of Moldova’s Communist government renewed mass protest on Sunday, with more than 10,000 people taking part in a peaceful demonstration in the capital Chisinau. The peaceful march moved along Chisinau’s main Stefan Chel Mare Boulevard without halting traffic, as with protests in previous days.
Three opposition political parties upset with a Communist election [...]

CHISINAU (Reuters) – Moldova’s Constitutional Court agreed on Sunday to a request from President Vladimir Voronin to stage a recount of last week’s election in which a victory by his Communist Party sparked violent protests.
“The Constitutional Court of Moldova hereby orders the Central Election Commission to recount within nine days all ballots cast by voters [...]

CHISINAU (Reuters) – Moldova’s Constitutional Court agreed on Sunday to a request from President Vladimir Voronin to stage a recount of last week’s election in which a victory by his Communist Party sparked violent protests.
Voronin submitted the request on grounds that a recount could re-establish calm in the former Soviet republic wedged between Ukraine and [...]

By Dmitry Solovyov
CHISINAU (Reuters) – Moldova’s Constitutional Court postponed for one day on Saturday a hearing on the president’s request for a recount in disputed parliamentary elections won by his Communist Party.
The result led to violent protests in the former Soviet republic. Opposition parties called a new rally for Sunday to denounce what they described [...]

Hanoi – Vietnamese scientists and actvists have called on the government to cancel a massive bauxite mining plan in the country’s Central Highlands for environmental reasons, scientists confirmed Friday. The scientists said the calls came at a seminar organized by Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade, its Federation of Technical and Science Associations, and the [...]

Chisinau/Moscow – Moldovan police overnight Tuesday in Chisinau recaptured the Parliament building that was occupied by demonstrators and set ablaze during deadly clashes amid anti- communist rioting.
The Russian news agency Interfax reported that numerous demonstrators were arrested. Paramilitary police took up positions in and Parliament to secure the building.
Tuesday’s violence left at least one woman [...]

North Korea maintained on Tuesday a satellite launched this week was in orbit playing revolutionary communist songs, despite U.S. and South Korean officials saying no satellite reached space.
“Our satellite is transmitting the immortal revolutionary paeans ‘The Song of General Kim Il-sung’ and ‘The Song of General Kim Jong-il’ as well as measured information to the [...]

When Jaswant Singh arrives in Darjeeling on April 7, he may have to face a few unpleasant questions as the carefully crafted words of the BJP manifesto do not pledge the formation of Gorkhaland, which was a precondition for the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha’s support. But the BJP has mentioned some sort of a status for [...]