Spring Revolt of Tibet – beyond the clichés
The Centre for Studies on modern and contemporary China and the Research Center on Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan civilizations, Paris, France, organised a one-day conference on the recent events in Tibet at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social
China Arrests Monk Informant
China arrested a Tibetan monk who, an exile Tibetan right group says, provided rare information about China’s military crackdown on the Tibetan people to foreign media. According to the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, 50 men from Sangchu
Comfort for Majnu Ka Tilla and Budh Vihar Settlers
Tibetan settlers in Delhi breathed a sigh of temporary relief as they were given ‘Provisional Regularization Certificate’ by the Indian government. The Tibetan camps at Majnu Ka Tilla and Budh Vihar were among the Indian capital’s 1000
Taiwanese Activists form anti-communist corps
Singing patriotic songs from the Martial Law Era and shouting anti-communist slogans popular during former dictator Chiang Kai-shek’s reign, a group of pro-independence activists officially inaugurated the Taiwanese Youth Anti-Communist National Salvations Corps
Tibet protest in Taiwan
A pro-Tibet activist scuffles with the police as she tries to unfurl a Tibet flag outside the venue where Chen Yunlin, Chairman of China’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), is meeting Cecilia Koo, wife of former Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) chairman Koo Chen-fu, in Taipei November 3, 2008. China’s top negotiator on Taiwan affairs began a historic trip on Monday to the self-ruled island that Beijing claims as its own to talk trade and transit as the opposition planned protests against warming ties. Talks between Chen and Taiwan’s top negotiator on China policy, SEF Chairman P.K. Chiang, will be held from November 3 to 7./REUTERS/Nicky Loh (TAIWAN)
Tibet Centre Opened at Heinrich Harrer’s Birthplace
An International Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies’ was opened on October 31 at the birth place of Heinrich Harrer, author of seven years in Tibet. Vice-Governor of the region of Kärnten, Members of Parliament, Mayor and various