Official Says Water Diversion Not Feasible
A controversial scheme to channel water from Tibet to the parched Yellow River in western China is unnecessary and anyway not feasible, China’s top water resources minister said on Tuesday.
Three Detained for Allegedly Helping Tibetans Flee
Chinese authorities in Lhasa have detained two Tibetans and one Nepalese ethnic Sherpa for allegedly escorting Tibetan asylum-seekers from China into India.
Candle light vigil against killing of Tibetan refugees
Yesterday afternoon, members of the Tibetan diaspora were joined by Norwegian human rights activists and other sympathizers in a peaceful demonstration in front of the Norwegian Parliament
Protest email-action launched by Olympic campaign
The ITSN Olympics campaign working group has launched an email protest campaign. The protest mails can be send from the 2008-FreeTibet.org website to Mr. Jacques Rogge, IOC
China takes heat after tragic flight of Tibetan teenager
The two teenage girls were best friends. In their tiny farming village in Tibet, they had stayed up late many nights over four years plotting their escape.
Outraged Tibetans protest shelling at the Pass
Outrage over the Chinese firing at the 19,000 feet high Nangpa La Pass Nepal-China border that claimed the life of a 17-year-old nun on 30 September has spilled over to
Repression under China: Murder in the mountains
A few minutes of jerky video footage shot by a Romanian cameraman on a mountaineering trip brought the plight of Tibetans under Chinese rule into Western living rooms this month. For once,
Chinese presidents posters and China’s flag burnt for Tibet freedom
Quite aggressive were the activists for peace, while shouting out slogans with widening out their lips at the most, Simultaneously raising their hands up and down that, “we do not want Hu jin tao
Successful Urgent Protest Action Campaign via SMS, and Vigil held in Oslo
Amnesty International Norway and Norwegian Tibet Committee launched an urgent protest SMS protest campaign to the Chinese government and to the Chinese embassy in Norway on 23 October. Protest