Kalsang Dhondup says his players are like "crumbs gathered after wiping the table cover". Selecting and managing a football team from amongst the exiled can be an interesting and challenging experience, the Executive Secretary of the Tibetan National Sports Association points out.
The recent Chinese intrusions into the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh underscore the need for Delhi to afford more urgency to the delineation of its disputed frontier with Beijing.
Nepal and China are hoping to boost trade and tourism through the possible opening up of two ancient Himalayan crossings and allowing helicopters to travel from the kingdom to a major Hindu pilgrimage site in Tibet.
Former speaker of the Lok Sabha, Shri Rabi Rai has come out strongly against the stand of Shri Atal Behari Vajpayee on Tibet on Joint Sino India declaration in Beijing and then his clarification on the floor of the Parliament.
China has expressed regret over the cancellation of a visit by the US government's religious rights monitor, which said it was protesting what it called "unacceptable" restrictions imposed by Beijing.
The Chinese press has published an unusually factual and restrained bylined article summarising the Dalai Lama¹s "Middle Way" approach, and providing a further indication that officials in China recognise the significance to the Tibetan government in exile
Four Tibetans detained in Nepal were returned to Chinese authorities despite Nepal’s promise to no longer forcefully return Tibetan refugees to China, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.
Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Joseph Biden (D-DE) have introduced a resolution welcoming His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Washington, D.C., in September and recognizing him for his lifelong commitment to non-violence and human rights.
Tibet is eyeing India, Nepal and Bhutan to export garlic to the three major South Asian markets, a report said today. Already, Gyangze county in the Tibet autonomous region of Southwest China has contracted to export 150 tonnes of garlic to Nepal.
Australia's annual human rights talk with China, just completed, is an "absurdity" which not only fails to deliver results but helps China avoid international criticism of its human rights record, according to a leading Australian academic.
