Cut aid to Chinese ‘spies’ – opposition
Paul Martin, the Prime Minister, should cut off all foreign aid to China and tell the Chinese to cease all economic and political espionage activities in Canada, opposition MPs said yesterday.
Tibet monk death sentence could be commuted-Xinhua
A death sentence handed to a Tibetan monk over a spate of bombings could be commuted to life in jail, the official Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.
Tibetans in Jaipur want to return to homeland
A tiny community of exiled Tibetans who earn their daily bread by selling winter clothes in Jaipur eagerly wait for the day when they would go back to their native land.
Chinese protesters demand Japan refuse Dalai Lama visit, kick out former Taiwan leader
Chinese protesters demanded on Thursday that Japan refuse a visit by the Dalai Lama and expel Taiwan’s former President Lee Teng-hui, as they burned a picture of Lee outside the Japanese Embassy in Beijing.
Tibetans Pray for Tsunami Victims
The Central Tibetan Administration held an official prayer for the victims of last weekend’s earthquake and subsequent Tsunami that killed thousands of people in south east Asia and Africa.
7th All India Indo Tibet Friendship Society’s Convention in Jodhpur
Indo Tibet Friendship Society along with India Tibet Coordination Office (ITCO) organized a three days’ National Convention of Indo Tibet Friendship Society (ITFS) at Charan Sabha Bhavan in Jodhpur.
Korean Walk for Tibet Ends
A group of Korean supporters began a peace march on the 1Oth December coinciding with the world’s human rights day and conferment of Nobel Peace Prize to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. After almost twenty days of gruelling walk the marchers reached their destination on 28 December.
Buying the Dragon’s Teeth
Jamyang Norbu’s new book, Buying the Dragon’s Teeth, is a well-argued and well-documented indictment of China’s violation of human rights and labor standards and a call for a boycott of Chinese goods.
The Consolation of Karma
Robert Thurman holds the first endowed chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the United States, at Columbia University in New York. He is the author of the international best-seller “Inner Revolution,” and the co-founder and president of Tibet House U.S., a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of Tibetan culture.