Nepal to check movement of Tibetans as part of 13-point agreement with China: report
In a latest move of its kind, Nepal and China have agreed to step up security in their border areas in a bid to prevent the entry of Tibetans into Nepal “to check frequent anti-Beijing protests” in the country, Nepalese media reports said
US Embassy in Nepal mentions ‘Tibetan Refugee’ in visa procedure
The United States embassy in Kathmandu has started specifically mentioning ‘Tibetan Refugee’ in the documents while issuing visas to them, an online Nepaline news media cited the country’s Kantipur Daily as reporting.
China blocks access to WikiLeaks
China routinely blocks access to a large content, including information relating to Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, websites run by Tibetan activists as well as dissidents through a massive network of firewalls
Japan, US to conduct biggest ever military drill
Japan and the United States will hold their biggest ever joint military drills just days after a US and South Korean show of force amid tensions on the Korean peninsula
A Tibet of the mind
Like most Tibetans born and brought up in exile, I grew up, in India, with a certain idea of my homeland, one that was informed by two extreme but inseparable views. On the one hand was an idealised state of grace that existed before the Chinese invasion
BRAVE YOUNG MAN – The 17th Karmapa’s approach may be useful to the subcontinent
He is older by five years since my last audience in the Gyuto Ramoche Tantric Monastery near Dharamsala, slightly more plump but engaging as ever and seems much more confident. That last is an illusion