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…
His Holiness the Dalai Lama (file photo) Dharamshala: His Holiness the Dalai Lama said Tuesday the Chinese government has never understood the heritage, culture and traditions of Tibetans. This is the root cause of all problems, but they are holding…
His Holiness the Dalai Lama underlines that Chinese people living outside China must have a clear understanding about the situation of Tibet. In this file photo, His Holiness delivers teachings on Kamalashila’s Stages of Meditation in Sydney, Australia, in June…