Chinese presence stirs passions in Geneva
Organisers of Geneva’s annual summer festival, which opens on Thursday, have defended their decision to invite China as the guest of honour.
Group Marching To Free Tibet
Twenty people walking from Boston to New York in a “March for Tibet’s Independence” were spending Wednesday night at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Congregation, where tonight at 7 they will host a public forum.
Former US official joins International Campaign for Tibet
Julia Taft, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues, has joined the Board of Directors of the International Campaign for Tibet in July 2005.
‘Masalla’ Music Threatens Cultural Purity
For 27-year-old Jamyang, it was a clash of cultures – Tibetan ‘thangka’ paintings versus Bollywood and Western rock and roll. In the end, the latter won the day when he chucked his ‘thangka’ paintbrushes for an electric
Railway to roof of the world threatens to squeeze Tibet
Under a blistering Himalayan sun, 500 workers are completing the Lhasa River Bridge, part of a 1,142-kilometer (708-mile) project that will link Tibet by rail to the outside world for the first time.
Heavy-handed approach criticized as China renovates Lhasa’s Potala Palace
China has undertaken extensive renovation of the Potala Palace, Lhasa’s most famous landmark, but foreign-based critics say it was being done for political reasons with scant concern for Tibetan sensitivities.
Cause of Tibetan antelope migration found
Wildlife scientists have found that some specific groups of Tibetan antelopes migrate northward every May to give birth to babies in northwest China.