Secrecy clouds envoy’s trip to Tibet

For the first time in nine years, Canada is quietly sending an ambassador on a tour of Tibet, armed with an agenda that seems to give business a higher priority than human rights.

South African Legislators Visit Dharamshala

A 3-member delegation of the newly formed South African Parliamentary group for Tibet is on a visit to Dharamshala. The group, according to the Voice of Tibet based here, is visiting the hilltown headquarters of the exile Tibetan government to gain a first

Chinese Premier to begin visit

CHINA’S premier Wen Jiabao arrives in Perth tonight for a four day visit likely to focus on supply of resources including uranium sales to meet China’s surging energy

Fled home, stuck in transit in Kathmandu

Hundreds of Tibetan people in transit, who arrived in Nepal hoping to seek asylum in a third country, have been living in misery in Kathmandu following the government’s ‘unofficial’ decision in October 2005

‘Westerners are too self-absorbed’

Tsering Wangmo is shaking uncontrollably as tears pour down her cheeks. Still sobbing, she pulls up her top and slowly turns around to show me a fretwork of scars. They criss-cross her body from shoulders to waist.