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Monthly Archives: August, 2008

‘Save Tibet ‘ – Namgyal Lhamo’s sensational music video

If you thought that Tibetan music was just about ethereal loops that blended with spiritual chanting or if it was just a hash of contemporary sound and ethnic pop and if you believe that music

SFT to launch 24 hour online TV channel

The SFT has announced that it will launch Free Tibet 2008 Television (FT08.TV), a 24 hour online television channel broadcasting on the internet to go live from August 8 through

Nine German Olympians protest Chinese politics

Nine German Olympians have posed with pictures of Chinese dissidents held up in front of their faces to protest the country's politics. The nine responded to a Suddeutsche Zeitung magazine request

Nepalese police arrest 150 Tibetan exiles at anti-China protest

Nepalese police Friday broke up an anti-China protest in the capital Kathmandu and arrested over 150 Tibetan exiles. The Tibetans, including Buddhist monks and nuns,

Guilty of Being Tibetan: Scenes from a Lhasa Prison

"Before, this was the best place, but now it's like a prison. When I watch TV, everything is lies. So I walk in the streets where the soldiers ask for my identity papers. If there's the

Restrictions on Net Access in China Seem Relaxed

The Chinese authorities appear to have lifted some of the restrictions that blocked Web sites for journalists working at the Olympic Village although other politically sensitive sites

Pro-Tibet campaigners to be in Beijing

Pro-Tibet campaigners say they will be in Beijing and will attempt to stage peaceful protests during the Olympics despite stringent restrictions ahead of the Games

Tutu, Havel urge athletes to speak up at Games

Czech ex-president Vaclav Havel and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu called on Olympic athletes on Thursday to speak up on human rights in China during the Beijing Olympics next month

Dalai Lama challenged by new generation of Buddhist activists

Gedun Gyatso, a 27-year-old Tibetan Buddhist monk, is so devoted to the Dalai Lama that when he was in prison, he placed a picture of him next to his pillow in open defiance of his jailers

Banning Tibet: Woser

A great cry, a noise that can be produced only by those who live in the grasslands, sounded from the Tibetan lands in March 2008, shocking the world. The Chinese media called it "the wolf howling"

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