Exiled Tibetans: China Can’t Pick Next Dalai Lama
Tibet’s government-in-exile reacted angrily today to China’s move to determine who will succeed the Dalai Lama when he dies.
China installs surveillance cameras in Xinjiang as anniversary of riots nears
China has installed about 40,000 high-definition surveillance cameras in the western region of Xinjiang days before the one-year anniversary of the country’s worst ethnic violence in decades.
In search of the real Panchen Lama
Exercising the ultimate political control, the Chinese Communist Party manufactured a ‘holy’ ceremony to appoint its own living god, writes John Garnaut from Shigatse in Tibet.
MP’s pro-China blog appals Tibet’s friends
Labour’s Chinese MP, Raymond Huo, is facing fierce criticism for defending Chinese rule over Tibet on a Labour Party website. Criticising Green Party co-leader Russel Norman’s Tibetan flag protest in front of visiting Chinese
Border talks: How India plays into China’s hands
Yet another round of India-China border talks is under way in Beijing. The unending and fruitless talks on territorial disputes underscore the eroding utility of this process. It is approaching three decades since China and India
Second Environmentalist brother sentenced to five years in prison
China today sentenced brother of recently jailed Tibetan environmentalist Karma Samdrup to five years in prison and three years’ deprivation of political rights for “inciting t
Special envoy Gyari not to contest election for Tibetan PM
The Special Envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama Lodi Gyari has announced his refusal to contest in the election of the exile Tibetan Prime Minist