As a Nepali my observation on international media’s coverage of Tibet issue and Nepal is bound to be biased. I am not a journalist, so I don’t even have the veil-no matter how flimsy, of confessed unbiased reporting. Over the weekend I read Rebecca Novick’s post at HuffPo on Nepali authorities’ violent crackdown on Tibetan refugees and their […]
China has lower expectations around Olympics
BEIJING – Hours after Olympic hurdles champion Liu Xiang saw his world record fall to Cuban Dayron Robles, a Chinese newspaper tried to console him and also lower the nation’s great expectations. "Losing the record takes the pressure off," read a headline last week on the Web site of Titan, China’s top sports newspaper. Liu […]