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Scoop
| 8 months ago
October 2012 The Global Flame of Truth for Tibet will reach Auckland International Airport today. Due to the worsening situation in Tibet, the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile has organised a world-wide Flame of Truth Relay and petition, which were...
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News 24
| 8 months ago
A Tibetan has burned himself to death inside a Buddhist monastery in China as part of a grisly series of protests against Beijing's hardline rule of the region, Radio Free Asia reported on Sunday. Saturday's self-immolation by Sangay Gyatso meant...
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Inquirer.net
| 8 months ago
Since March 2009, more than 40 Tibetans have died in self-immolations to protest China's rule over Tibet. A Tibetan man has died after setting himself on fire to protest Chinese rule over the Himalayan region, a rights group said, the latest in a...
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China News
| 8 months ago
Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China is expected to receive a daily average of 80,000 tourists during the ongoing National Day holiday, local tourism authorities said. Tourists visiting from September 30 to October 7 will bring estimated...
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Phayul
| 8 months ago
In confirmed reports and photos coming out of Tibet, another Tibetan set himself on fire today in an apparent protest against China's continued occupation of Tibet. Exile sources say that a Tibetan man, Sangay Gyatso, set himself on fire in Tsoe...
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The Hindustan Times
| 8 months ago
A writer who spoke out against Chinese repression towards Tibet has burned himself to death, a rights group said, the 53rd person to set themselves ablaze protesting Beijing's rule. The International Campaign for Tibet said in a statement that Gudrub,...
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Epoch Times
| 8 months ago
October 5, 2012 Tibetans and supporters of a "Free Tibet" hold placards while marching through downtown Los Angeles on March 10, 2012 in California. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images) A Tibetan writer died after he set himself on fire to protest...
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Phayul
| 8 months ago
China has refused to grant permission to an official Australian delegation from visiting Tibet, aimed at examining the reasons for the ongoing wave of self-immolations. The Australia Tibet Council has been told that Canberra's request to visit Tibet,...
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Phayul
| 8 months ago
Dhondup Lhadar, vice-president of Tibetan Youth Congress, who recently sat on a hunger strike in the Indian capital New Delhi, underwent surgery last evening. Doctors have said the surgery to remove stone build-up, which had caused severe swelling...
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NewKerala
| 8 months ago
Speaking to select journalists in the Indian capital Friday, Sangay said northeast China faces severe water shortage. "Sixty percent of the country needs water from somewhere," he said. "Chinese companies are building 20 dams per river in the Tibetan...
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The Hindu
| 8 months ago
October 5, 2012 A Tibetan writer and poet who studied in India died on Thursday after setting himself on fire to protest Chinese policies in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), according to monks in Dharamsala and Tibetan sources. Gudrup (43) set...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
With leadership change in the offing in China, Tibetans-in-exile hope that the new regime would have a liberal approach towards them. Lobsang Sangay, the prime minister of Tibet's government-in-exile, in an interaction with reporters here, recalled...
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NewKerala
| 8 months ago
The issue of Tibet should be "on the table" during talks between India and China, Tibetan political leader Lobsang Sangay said here Friday. "I believe Tibet should be on the table as a foreign issue," Sangay told the media at the Dalai Lama's bureau.
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Zee News
| 8 months ago
Tibetan activists have asked Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, the heir apparent to the country's leadership, to find a lasting solution to the Tibet problem. In a report, the activists have challenged Xi to take "immediate steps towards a just and...
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Phayul
| 8 months ago
In reports coming out of Tibet, another Tibetan man has set himself of fire today in an apparent protest against China's continued occupation of Tibet, taking Tibet's self-immolation toll to 53. Sources from inside Tibet, using a popular phone...
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Chinadaily
| 8 months ago
A national energy company is planning to invest 100 billion yuan ($15.87 billion) within 10 years to tap into abundant solar and hydroelectric power resources in Tibet ...Tibet has abundant solar and hydroelectric power resources, with the amount of...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
The sentences, from 7 to 11 years, reflect Beijing's hard-line approach to a protest campaign that has so far proved difficult to tame. Two of the four Tibetan men were charged with leaking news of the protests to outside contacts, and the other two...
