DECHAN Pemba, a 30-year-old British citizen living legally in Beijing for the past two years, found out this week how ruthlessly efficient China’s security crackdown ahead of the Olympics can be. Ms Pemba, a Tibetan by ethnicity, stepped out…
23 June 2008: Karze (Ch: Ganzi) County, Karze “TAP” (incorporated into a Chinese province of Sichuan) – A youth horribly beaten with metal baton and arrested for shouting slogans Ngodup Dorjee, a 25-year youth from Phuk-Yi-Nang-Tsek-Lek village in Lhopa township,…
Tourists are reportedly trickling back in to Tibet, four months after China effectively closed the area to foreigners. That followed violent protests in Lhasa in March and unrest in the ethnic Tibetan areas of the neighbouring provinces of Gansu, Sichuan…
On this very special occasion of the 73rd birthday celebration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Kashag of the Central Tibetan Administration – on behalf of the Tibetans in and outside Tibet, as well as all of his followers…
1 July 2008: Karze (Ch: Ganzi) County, Karze “TAP” (incorporated into a Chinese province of Sichuan) – Monks stopped Chinese forces from raiding Khangmar monastery Every year on 1 July, Khangmar (Gaeden Samdupling) monastery use to conduct its one of…