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Monthly Archives: August, 2010

Key political risks to watch in China-FACTBOX

China is pulling past the global economic downturn with robust growth, but this has generated new risks and concerns over trade imbalances, currency policy and the overheating of the domestic economy

Term ‘Greater Tibet’ does not exist, Dalai Lama tells Chinese people

1558 Chinese people submitted 317 questions to His Holiness the Dalai Lama through the renowned Chinese writer, Wang Lixiong. 11705 Chinese netizens voted for the following 10 most important questions, to which

Chinese court rejects appeal from Tibetan environmentalist

A court in northwest China has rejected an appeal from a Tibetan environmentalist who was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of grave robbing and dealing in looted antiquities, his lawyer said

Tibetan Youth Congress begins 14th General Body Meeting

The 14th General Body Meeting (GBM) of the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), the largest non-governmental organisation in the exile Tibetan community, began here this morning at

A Trip to Tibet, With My Handlers Nearby

One warm morning on the campus of Tibet University, a couple of foreign journalists on a government-run tour of Tibet quietly broke away from the group to talk to students standing on a grassy lawn

India Digs Under Top of the World to Match Rival

The name of this white-knuckle pass, one of the highest in the world, means “pile of corpses” in the Tibetan language. Every year a few dozen people die trying to cross these

Longest Calligraphy Scroll – Tibetan sets world record

Jamyang Dorjee Chakrishar, a 56-year-old Tibetan Master Calligrapher, resident of Sikkim, India has created a 163.2 meters long calligraphy scroll - setting the world

Then Came the Silence

Daja Wangchuk Meston was born in Switzerland to an American couple. When he was three years old, his mother brought him to Nepal and left him with a Tibetan family. At the age of six, Wangchuk became a novice monk in Kopan Monastery overlooking a

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