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HONG KONG — Sharon Stone, who last year was a guest of the Shanghai International Film Festival, now faces a boycott of her films in China after she suggested the devastating May 12 earthquake there could have been the result of bad “karma.”

Stone’s remarks, made Thursday at the Festival de Cannes, pondered a link between the earthquake — which to date has taken the lives of more than 65,000 — and China’s treatment of ethnic Tibetans and their exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, whom she called “a good friend.”

“I’m not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else,” Stone said in a brief red-carpet interview with Cable Entertainment News of Hong Kong. “And then this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?”

Ng See-Yuen, the UME Cineplex chain and the chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers, said his cinemas would refuse to show Stone’s films after her “inappropriate” comments.

He said Stone should not have made political comments about a disaster which has killed at least 67,183 and left millions homeless.

Stone said she cried when she got a letter from the Tibetan Foundation asking her to help the quake victims.

“Sometimes you have to learn to put your head down and be of service, even to people who aren’t nice to you. That’s a big lesson for me,” Stone said.

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Peking (dpa) - Der olympische Fackellauf durch Tibet wird voraussichtlich auf nur noch einen Tag verkürzt.

Die Änderung der politisch umstrittenen Strecke durch das größte Hochland der Erde wurde mit den Auswirkungen des Erdbebens in der Provinz Sichuan begründet, wie informierte Kreise in Peking berichteten. Durch die dreitägige Staatstrauer und die Verschiebung des Fackellaufes in der Erdbebenprovinz Sichuan von Juni auf Anfang August seien Änderungen nötig gewesen. Ursprünglich sollte das olympische Feuer drei Tage durch Tibet getragen werden.

Das chinesische Organisationszentrum für den Lauf wollte zunächst nicht bestätigen, dass der Fackellauf nur noch am 18. oder 19. Juni in der tibetischen Hauptstadt Lhasa stattfinden wird, wie eine Sprecherin am Vortag zitiert worden war. Es hieß lediglich, die Strecke werde «verkürzt» und «vereinfacht».

Exiltibeter fordern schon lange, das olympische Feuer nicht durch Tibet zu tragen, weil sie darin eine Bestätigung des chinesischen Machtanspruches über die Region sehen. Nach den Unruhen der Tibeter hat die Route durch Tibet in den vergangenen zwei Monaten noch zusätzlich an Brisanz gewonnen.

http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/05/woesers-middleway-blog-hacked/
The Tibetan poet and writer Woeser,under house arrest in Beijing since March 10th, has been constantly writing and updating the world about recent events in Tibet. She has posted series of updates on Tibet.

Woser, born in 1966 in Tibet’s capital Lhasa, graduated with a degree in Chinese from the Southwestern Institute for National Minorities in Chengdu, and later attended the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing as a visiting scholar. From 1990 she worked as an editor of the journal Tibetan Literature (Xizang Wenxue) in Lhasa. She is the author of 10 volumes, including one book of collected poems, a prose volume Notes on Tibet (2003), and two books on the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution which are not distributed in China. She was removed from her position at the Tibet Cultural Association in Lhasa in 2004 after China’s United Front Department and its Publications Bureau determined that her writings contained “political errors” due to the positive references in Notes on Tibet to the exiled Tibetan leader.

Because readers in China have no access to her books, Woser began to make extensive use of the Internet to disseminate her writings. In February 2005, Woser established her first blog through www.tibetcult.net, which was earlier forced to shut down.