Tawu tense after monk’s self-immolation
Over a thousand Chinese armed security personnel have locked down Tawu Nyitso monastery, cutting off electricity and water supply as schools in the region remained closed following Monday’s self immolation of monk Tsewang Norbu.
US Vice President visits China
A day after 29-year old Tibetan monk Tsewang Norbu set himself ablaze protesting China’s occupation of Tibet, the US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Beijing on a five-day trip August 17
China, Tibet and the Dalai Lama – Lamas at loggerheads
IT WAS never going to be easy. Installing the Chinese Communist Party’s chosen man as Tibet’s second-highest ranking religious leader has been an uphill struggle since 1995, when it declared him, at the ripe old age of six,