The New York based human rights monitoring organization Human Rights Watch has asked the authorities in China's Sichuan Province to allow independent medical professionals and human rights monitors to visit five Tibetans detained without trial for six months.
Late Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong is set to cast a huge shadow over Tibet once again with a giant stone statue of the Great Helmsman on its way to the Himalayan region, a newspaper said on Wednesday.
In what has been unprecedented in the 47 years of the Tibetan governance, the government-in-exile forecast a surplus income of nearly three million rupees for the fiscal 2006-07.
The Australia Tibet Council (ATC) has asked Foreign Minister Alexander Downer to raise the issue of Tibet when he meets with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during his visit to Australia, which begins this weekend.
The Assembly of the Tibetan People's Deputies today passed an official resolution as an appreciation for the overall financial standing and financial performance of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) by the incumbent Kashag.
In Western cultures, sacred art is cherished, declared invaluable and preserved by any means possible. Meanwhile, sacred Buddhist mandalas, complex symbolic representational paintings of the universe
Organisers of the Ms Tibet contest are hoping that more women will be brave enough to participate in the event this year, overcoming disapproval from the conservative Tibetan Buddhist society.
This morning 3-member delegation of the South African Tibet Friendship Group (SATFG), which consists of South African members of parliament arrived Dharamshala.
For the first time since the Communists took power in 1949 China is to host an international religious meeting - hoping to use the Buddhist forum to counter fears it is a threat to the world.
In June 2005 I visited my native homeland, which is now known as Kandze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. This prefecture is not in the Tibet Autonomous Region but is situated to the east of the Yangtse River in Sichuan Province.
