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
China launches project to map border with Nepal
A team of Chinese topography experts has launched a comprehensive project to map the China-Nepal border.
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.