@samlhad

Int Development specialist, retired from UNICEF not life. Green Tech,Tibet, traditional bows, horses, good food & wine, books and grand kids engage me.

 Ottawa, Ontario
Joined September 2013
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After 36 years, Sunday was the last call for dim sum at the Mandarin Ogilvie Restaurant ottawacitizen.com/news/local… via @ottawacitizen

After 36 years, Sunday was the last call for dim sum at the Mandarin Ogilvie Restaurant

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The Han Chinese ‘Master Race’: Charles Burton in The Dorchester Review | Macdonald-Laurier Institute macdonaldlaurier.ca/han-chin…

The Han Chinese ‘Master Race’: Charles Burton in The Dorchester Review | Macdonald-Laurier Institute

Outlining the Chinese people’s self-imagined destiny and its roots in history.

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TibetanReview@TibetanReview7 Dec 2022
First US city mayor of Tibetan heritage @AftabPureval touched by @DalaiLama’s advice to focus on good of humanity tibetanreview.net/first-us-c…
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Tibetan protesters distributing pamphlets to the delegates attending #COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal today. Tibet is at the forefront of climate change crisis and not discussed enough by the international community.
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India presents China a two-front problem, U.S. Navy chief suggests asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Int…

India presents China a two-front problem, U.S. Navy chief suggests

Adm. Gilday calls New Delhi an essential strategic partner of the future

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Demonstrators stage Genocide Games Ceremony at Chinese Embassy leveller.ca/2022/02/coalitio…

Demonstrators stage Genocide Games Ceremony at Chinese Embassy - The Leveller

Chinese citizens cannot freely express their opinions, choose their religion, or even make a comment about the government on social media without fearing harassment, arrest, and imprisonment.

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ukraine: How Indians fleeing Ukraine ran into racism - Times of India timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…

How Indians fleeing Ukraine ran into racism | India News - Times of India

India News: Social media has been flooded with reports and videos of Indians and other non-white refugees fleeing Ukraine being abused. The UN has now taken notic

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Editorial: Ottawa council's credibility tumbles off a cliff ottawacitizen.com/opinion/ed… via @ottawacitizen

Editorial: Ottawa council's credibility tumbles off a cliff

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India’s New Aircraft Carrier Vikrant Starts 3rd Round Of Sea Trials navalnews.com/naval-news/202… via @navalnewscom

India’s New Aircraft Carrier Vikrant Starts 3rd Round Of Sea Trials - Naval News

India's indigenously-built aircraft carrier Vikrant heads out on 09 January to begin the third round of sea trials.

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Remembering the sacrifice of Indian and Canadian soldiers. #RemembranceDay2021
Anshuman Gaur@anshumangaur12 Nov 2021
Few in Canada know that almost 1.3 million Indian soldiers served in WW-I; four times as many as those from Australian, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa & the Caribbean combined. More than 74,000 lost their lives. #poppy #RemembranceDay2021 Pic- Courtesy IWM
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The Other Afghan Women newyorker.com/magazine/2021/… via @NewYorker
David Petraeus on American Mistakes in Afghanistan newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/d… via @NewYorker

David Petraeus on American Mistakes in Afghanistan

The former general defends Afghan troops and blames the speed of the withdrawal for the government’s collapse.

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BOOKS: What Beijing gets right asia.nikkei.com/Life-Arts/BO… My first reaction while they got the economics right, however the giant missteps are political: Continuing repression in Tibet; Xingjian horror show; South China Seas. Tibet, Turkestan and Taiwan: Banana peels?

BOOKS: What Beijing gets right

Two Western economists believe that China's economic success is here to stay

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This from a Myanmar scholar. How can you overthrown a constitution that one ( the Army ) developed? Fingers crossed. Interesting that some ASEAN countries have expressed concern.
Thant Myint-U@thantmyintu1 Feb 2021
The doors just opened to a very different future. I have a sinking feeling that no one will really be able to control what comes next. And remember Myanmar's a country awash in weapons, with deep divisions across ethnic & religious lines, where millions can barely feed themselves
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Our Catastrophe now metastasized, not sure the DNA of the CCP to dominate and obliterate inconvenient peoples, like the Tibetans and Uighurs makes co-habitation a good option, unless there is a real change of hearts/minds/habits. Pity. nytimes.com/2020/07/15/books…

‘Eat the Buddha’ Reports From the ‘World Capital of Self-Immolations’ (Published 2020)

Barbara Demick’s new book covers an awe-inspiring breadth of history — from the heyday of the Tibetan empire to the present-day Tibetan effort at cultural and spiritual survival.

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Students for a Free Tibet@SFTHQ19 May 2020
Confucius Institutes exist to spread CCP propaganda and lies about Tibet. theepochtimes.com/confucius-…

Confucius Institutes: A Chinese Trojan Horse

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Nomads are the stewards of the grasslands, important areas downstream for the PRC, so many rivers rise in Tibet.Wreck the grasslands pay the price downstream. Our 20th C mindset is based on not taking impacts over time into account, cutting off the nose.....
International Tibet Network@TheTibetNetwork19 May 2020
UN #humanrights experts urge China to lift charges against #Tibetan nomad A-Nya Sengdra: tibetnetwork.org/un-experts_… #freetibet #humanrightsdefender #freeanya #environmentactivist
China ramping up bullying and intimidation of activists in Canada, report says /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/politics…
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