‘Beijing trying to demonize Dalai Lama’

As the Dalai Lama rose to speak at the IIC’s fountain lawn on the occasion of ‘Fifty Years of Tibetans in Exile’ on Sunday afternoon, Maura Moynihan, the daughter of former US ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan, turned aside to say, ”India is trying to distance itself from the Dalai Lama

China hardens stance

The last round of talks (January 27-31) between Beijing and the Dalai Lama’s envoys was held after a 15-month hiatus. This was just weeks before the Tibetans were getting ready to celebrate ‘Losar’ and the Chinese to usher in

Tibet’s Rivers Strangled by Dams

Canadian documentary maker Michael Buckley’s undercover bid to investigate the Tibet-China railway line was sidetracked when he discovered Tibet’s river systems were being strangled by large scale dam construction

Forest fire raging in Zayul, Tibet: report

Fire has been raging since Sunday noon in a forest area in Zayul (Ch: Chayou) County, Kongpo (Ch: Nyingchi) Prefecture, in the so called Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), according to China’s state-controlled news agency.

Tibetans in Nepal pray for G P Koirala

The Tibetans in Nepal yesterday held a special prayer for former Prime Minister and Nepali Congress President Girija Prasad Koirala who passed away on Saturday at the

The Longest running Tibetan vigil in the world

unfurls his Tibetan National flag, lifts it high and quietly begins to recite a Mani mantra. For the last two years, incredibly he has never failed to be the first person to arrive at the Tibetan vigil, and the last to leave