Chinese influx makes Lhasa sleaze capital

The Dalai Lama’s Potala Palace may continue to dominate Lhasa’s skyline, but the city’s reputation of being the centre of religious activity has taken a beating. With Tibetan being taught as a second language

Chinese dissident urges boycott of Olympics

All nations and their leaders should boycott the 2008 Olympics because of Beijing’s support for genocide in Darfur, and its repression of Tibetan Buddhists, Xinjiang Uighurs, Chinese journalists and human rights and legal rights activists

Olympic torch will bypass Taiwan in ongoing row with China

Government spokesman Shieh Jhy-wey, defending the island’s position, said Taiwan was “the first country which says ‘no’ to an authoritarian regime over the Olympic torch relay. Freedom and human rights of Taiwanese people are more sacred then the Olympic flames.”