Tibetan Issues Prevail in Recent China-US Talks
By Eric Goh / August 18, 2013
The 18th annual talks between China and the US took place in Kunming, Yunnan Province on July 30 and 31. This was the first of such talks attended by President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang since they took office this year. Uzra Zeya, acting Secretary of State for read more →
Singer Detained
By Vanshika Tripathi / August 16, 2013
Popular Tibetan singer Kelsang Yarphel, 37, was arrested in July in Lhasa, and was subsequently placed in a detention center in Sichuan Province’s Chengdu city. The singer was detained by Chinese authorities on alleged charges of performing a “politically subversive” song at a music concert. News of his detention has read more →
Chinese Political Advisor Visits Tibet
By Mary Trewartha / August 15, 2013
Top political advisor Yu Zhengsheng has returned from a six-day “inspection tour” around Lhasa which took place on August 1-6. He is the Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and the member of the Standing Committee responsible for Tibetan Affairs. people.com.cn – described as read more →
Hackers Seize Control of Tibetan Website
By Mary Trewartha / August 14, 2013
China has been accused of hacking into Tibetan websites based in India in order to gain information which they can use to track down and jail people inside Tibet. Hackers seized control of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile’s official Chinese language website on August 13. Tibetan cyber-security officials lost control of their read more →
More News of Prisoners in Tibet (UPDATED)
By Vanshika Tripathi / August 13, 2013
Since the beginning of August, there have already been instances of Tibetans in Tibet being arrested, sentenced, or released in poor condition by the Chinese authorities, and news of sentences earlier this year is also coming through. Sonam Gewa, Lobsang Samten, Lobsang Nyima and Tenzin Sherab, four monks from the read more →
China Closes Tibetan Monastery
By James Thomas / August 13, 2013
The Chinese government has shut down a Tibetan monastery in eastern Tibet. The Gaden Dhargyeling monastery based in Shak Rongpo, situated within Nagchu County, has been forced to close after alleged links to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Hundreds of Chinese police have been drafted to the area compelling the read more →
Social media in the Tibetan Community
By Tenzin Younten / August 12, 2013
Social media is playing an exceptional role in the life of the Tibetans-in-exile community, enabling many people to reunite virtually with their kin in their homeland Tibet. Social networking has become a bridge between Tibetans in exile and in Tibet, and Tibetans have left almost no form of social networking read more →
The Campaign Continues Around the World
By Mary Trewartha / July 29, 2013
As the toll of self-immolations reaches 120, the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile has reiterated its appeal to the United Nations and governments to send fact-finding missions to Tibetan areas, and has called on the 47 member states of the UN Human Rights Council to hold an urgent meeting on the crisis in read more →
Global Record Deal for the Gyuto Monks
By Miranda Hall / July 29, 2013
A group of monks from the Gyuto Monastery, the abode of the Karmapa, took the stage at Glastonbury last month after signing a deal with Decca records, once the label of the Rolling Stones. The performance coincided with the year of the 100th anniversary of the Tibetan Declaration of Independence. The read more →
China’s Heavy-handed Sentencing
By Zalina Gamat / July 26, 2013
A Chinese court in Siling, eastern Tibet has dealt harshly with three Tibetans connected with the rising wave of self-immolation protests inside Tibet. The court sentenced Doptrug, 51, to ten years imprisonment, Ugyen Dorjee, 40, to 21 months, and Choekyab to 18 months. The three took part in a protest read more →