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Updated Monday, October 26, 2009 3:41 pm TWN, By Cynthia Huang, The China Post Tibetan exiles experience hardship in Taiwan with little government helpInstead, the construction worker is sharing NT$7,000 a month with the five other Tibetans living in his rented two-bedroom apartment. Their survival strategy? “We don't eat much, maybe just one side dish, and we just eat more rice,” Jiang said in broken Mandarin. Jiang-Ka's story is a familiar one to the 100-plus Tibetans in Taiwan. With no legal right to work, no steady source of income for the past ten months and little governmental assistance, the Tibetan exiles are leading a dire lifestyle “We are just fugitives; this is an undeniable fact,” said Dawa Tsering, the President of the Tibet Religious Foundation of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, an advocacy group in Taiwan. Tibet, an ethnic region of southwestern China bordering India and the spiritual home of the Dalai Lama, has a long history fighting for religious and cultural freedom. The Chinese government does not recognize Tibet as an autonomous region. Each year, children die while climbing Mount Everest to search a place offering freedom, according to Tsering. A group of around 100 Tibetans escaped Tibet, arriving in India and Nepal after 1999. There, they purchased fake Indian or Nepalese passports and traveled to Taiwan. According to Jiang, a director for the informally organized Tibetan Club in Taiwan, these immigrants are around 30 years old and mostly single males. “I heard Taiwan is a free country! I heard it is easy to obtain governmental protection” Jiang said, “but once we arrived, everything is different.” The secretary for the Cabinet-level Mongolian & Tibetan Affairs Commission (MTAC), an organization that handles issues related to the Tibetan community in Taiwan, said the agency provides an effective system to legalize Tibetans refugees. The commission helped to revise immigration laws last December in order to issue temporary identification to people without a nationality, such as Tibetans. “We helped these Tibetans to obtain identification within six months — this is very impressive compared to other countries,” said Chian-Shr-ying, secretary of the MTAC. Comments October 26, 2009 laowaixiaojie@ Reply The government doesn't have to do much - just give them work permits! That is the real issue, after all... October 26, 2009 err_co_eds@ Jiang ka and all the rest of the Tibetans should complain their hardship to that devil monk Dalai Lama. DL spends millions of millions of dollars flying around the world as a political celebrity each year and consumes TENDERLOIN BEEF MEDIUM COOK with expensive wine. Why complain against us. We also work. October 28, 2009 bankonline@ Tsering and Jiang should accept the reality how to adjust their life. People like you should blame yourself specially Tsering just sitting down as the President of the so called Tibet Religious foundation of the Unholy Dalai Lama waiting payroll from Dalai Lama.Money will not drop from the sky if you don’t strived. There are numerous poor famous individuals who start from Rags to Riches through hardship. You and Jiang should blame yourself by listening and follow that spiritual leader who was now enjoying bounties of luxury lifestyle without any hard work. Tell you a secret Mr. President Tsering. I was born in the silver spoon family. When I was in my college days, I worked myself up and became a successful businessman. Why? My dad and mom begin to discipline me for survival by cutting off all my daily allowance. I'm not BRAGGING. LESSONS TO BECOME A RICHMAN. -WORK HARD-DON'T COMPLAIN. -DON'T RELY SOMEONE TO PRODUCE RAG TO RICHES FOR YOU. -BE CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE. -PROTECT YOUR HONOR WITH TRUST. Mr. President Tsering. "KEEP IN MIND THAT MONEY WILL NEVER NEVER NEVER DROP FROM THE SKY". Sitting down of doing nothing useful is call PARASITES. October 31, 2009 tufingyen@ laowaixiaojie@ wrote: This is secret, I am going to reveal. These people who say they are Tibetans are FAKE. They are actually Nepalese with Tibetan look. Before them hundreds of Nepalese have gotten citizenship with this tactic. These people work illegally before and after getting ID they do smuggling of different things and many of them had gotten RICH. They have bought apartments, cars, rent shops for more than 100000, they have engaged in different illegal activities (haven't we heard about FAKE LAMA in NEWS every now and then) Nepalese have two kinds of looks. One of them richer Nepalese look Italian, a few of them are here in Taiwan. Most of them came as students and few of them got married to Taiwanese girls and have professions as software engineer, restaurateur, and import-export business. The other kind is Tibetan looking Poor Nepalese, they are not educated and have no future in Nepal or India and come to Taiwan and seek Refugee status in the name of Vulnerable Tibetans. I hope MTAC will know the truth and kick them out. Not them only but all of them who got IDs in the name of Tibetan Refugee. (Tibetans are very welcome IN U.S., E.U. ,Japan so Tibetans will choose those countries in place of Taiwan.) Taiwan Govt. Kick this fake Tibetans out of Taiwan. Help Tibetans retain their integrity!!!!!!The government doesn't have to do much - just give them work permits! That is the real issue, after all... November 23, 2009 wuweide888@ err_co_eds@ wrote: Funny you should call HH the devil monk... and at the same time cozy up to bloody murderous Chinese regime to "unify China". Shameless.Jiang ka and all the rest of the Tibetans should complain their hardship to that devil monk Dalai Lama. DL spends millions of millions of dollars flying around the world as a political celebrity each year and consumes TENDERLOIN BEEF MEDIUM COOK with expensive wine. Why complain against us. We also work. |
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