Oasis China concerts are shelved
Concert promoters said the Chinese culture ministry recently found out that Noel Gallagher played at a Free Tibet benefit in the US in 1997. The rest of the band’s South-East Asian tour will go ahead as planned.
Chinese forces surround Tibetan monastery: activists
Security forces have surrounded a Tibetan monastery in a tense region of southwest China after monks there demonstrated against Chinese repression, activist groups
Tibetans mark Losar with prayers in France
In solidarity with the ‘No Losar’ movement inside Tibet, Tibetans in France held a
Reverence for Dalai Lama defies Chinese rule
Years of Chinese government denunciations and decades in exile have not loosened the Dalai Lama’s influence over Tibetans in his homeland, where his banned image remains treasured.
Dalai Lama arrives in Dasa after Losar
Media persons throng to hear His Holiness the Dalai Lama speak as he arrives at the Gaggal airport near Dharamsala, Monday, March 2, 2009. The exiled Tibetan leader arrived to his exile home town in Northern India after spending weeks touring Europe and then Tibetans settlements in south India around the Tibetan New Year (Losar) time. During a four-day visit to Europe the Dalai Lama was made the honorary citizen of the Italian cities of Rome and Venice. In Germany he was awarded the 2008 German Media Prize. (Photo by Tenzin Dasel/Phayul)
Tibet Protesters shake up Toronto mining conference
Seven pro-Tibetan activists posed as delegates to a downtown mining convention yesterday morning, then unfurled a red, six-metre banner that read “HDI – Stop Mining Tibet.”
New protest today in Ngaba after officials ban prayer ceremony
News is emerging of a protest this morning (March 1, 2009) by several hundred monks from Sey monastery in Ngaba (Chinese: Aba), the Tibetan area of Amdo, after officials prevented them from marking a major prayer festival