Four Tibetan youngsters handed over to the Chinese authorities by Nepal after crossing the border illegally have remained in a detention center in the Tibetan town of Shigatse since their arrival in August, RFA's Tibetan service reports.
A Tibetan soldier lost his life while defending Indian borders on October 11. Kelsang Dorjee, 24, a Tibetan soldier of Vikas III, was stationed with 14 Corps at Battalic Sector, near the Line of Control.
ELIZABETH JACKSON: A group of Victorian MPs are vowing to push ahead with a pro-Tibet advertising campaign, during the visit next week to Australia of the Chinese President, Hu Jintao, despite what they describe as "intimidating" behaviour of a senior Chinese official based in Victoria.
"Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion" doesn't pretend to be objective. It's less a documentary than a cry of outrage -- a series of exotic images that slowly turn horrifying. The focus is the Chinese occupation of Tibet
The attempts of the Dharamsala based Tibetan administration headed by His Holiness the Dalai lama to create a conducive atmosphere for dialogue with Beijing is threatened by a man who gave false information to the People’s Republic of China about plans of violent activities of the Tibetan administration.
Just days before Chinese President Hu Jintao arrives, the Chinese embassy is embroiled in a political row amid claims it is trying to gag MPs wishing to speak out over the sensitive Tibetan issue.
A new tool of fighting repression and hunger, according to Students for a Free Tibet, is the repression of hunger. On Wednesday, SFT concluded a 14-day fast with a Day of Action in protest of the imprisonment of two Tibetan nuns.
Just two weeks shy of her 86th birthday, Shirley Horey is starting a new chapter in an extraordinary life. She has shaved her head, and packed away all her clothes; soon she will even have a new name.
