Canada should promote negotiations on Tibet with visiting delegation

The Canada Tibet Committee (CTC) today called upon the Government of Canada to actively promote the commencement of substantive negotiations between representatives of the Dalai Lama and China to a visiting delegation of officials from the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR).

A new “Re-education-through-Labour ” camp established in Tibet

A new “Re-education-through-Labour” (Ch:laojiao) camp has been established in Senge Township, Ngari County, Tibet Autonomous Region (“TAR”). The camp which will accommodate about two hundred inmates became functional in July 2004 when the construction work was completed.

Traveller’s tale from Forbidden City

No other land has been transformed so completely as that of Tibet, particularly after the Dalai Lama went into exile in 1959. Renowned but forbidden places like the Potala Palace and the Norbulingka summer palace have been opened to the public.