[TCHRD) DHARAMSHALA: Hundreds of armed forces, particularly the People’s Armed Police, were deployed at the immensely popular annual horse-racing festival at Machu (Chinese: Maqu) county in Kanlho (Chinese: Gannan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, on 12 August this year, as local (...)
DHARAMSHALA: A leading Tibetan monk of Khashi monastery in Ngaba who has invested his efforts in the preservation of Tibetan language and culture, and keeping unity among Tibetans, was sentenced to 7 years in prison on trumped-up charges on 18 June. The Intermediate People’s Court in Ngaba (...)
By Russell Leigh Moses [Wall Street Journal, August 20, 2012, 6:35 PM HKT] What happens to the prospects for political reform in China when Premier Wen Jiabao leaves office? With senior Communist Party officials resurfacing after the meetings in the seaside resort of Beidaihe, and preparations (...)
The Parliament Magazine talks to special representative of the Dalai Lama to Europe Kelsang Gyaltsen about China’s presence in Tibet. Parliament Magazine (PM): China’s ambassador to the EU Wu Hailong says that Tibet is a highly autonomous region. How would you respond to this? Kelsang Gyaltsen (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay today renewed his appeal to the international community to direct its attention on the surging self-immolation of Tibetans. Addressing members of the international press in New Delhi, Kalon Tripa said he is disappointed that dozens of self-immolations (...)
By NASR UL HADI, Associated Press – 13 minutes ago NEW DELHI (AP) — The political leader of Tibetan exiles says he is disappointed that dozens of self-immolations by Tibetans have not received the same world attention as the similar suicide of a Tunisian man that sparked the Arab Spring. Lobsang (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Rikyo, the 36-year-old mother of three, who self-immolated on 30 May 2012, left a note urging Tibetans to remain united and preserve their culture to ensure His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s return to Tibet. Dharamsala-based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) said in (...)
New Indian Express Home Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile Gyari Dolma on Sunday visited Tenzin Dagyal, who is being treated in KR Hospital in Mysore. She inquired about his health and assured support from the government-in-exile. She also thanked the doctors saying that they had done (...)
Publication: China Brief Volume: 12 Issue: 16 August 17, 2012 Category: China Brief, In a Fortnight, Military/Security, Elite, China and the Asia-Pacific, ChinaBy: Peter Mattis With the Beidaihe retreat coming to a close this week and Chinese leaders reemerging from behind closed doors, China’s (...)
By Mark Kitto / 8 August 2012 [Prospect Magazine] Why I’m leaving the country I loved. Death and taxes. You know how the saying goes. I’d like to add a third certainty: you’ll never become Chinese, no matter how hard you try, or want to, or think you ought to. I wanted to be Chinese, (...)