China has reportedly responded positively to plans of extending its railway line right across the Himalayas, from Tibet’ capital city of Lhasa to the Nepalese capital city of Kathmandu. The rail link could be further extended to Lord Buddha's birthplace Lumbini, located close to the Indo-Nepal border.
India and China resumed their long drawn out border talks Monday in the Indian capital New Delhi after it hit a roadblock late last year. The 15th round of special border talks scheduled in November had to be cancelled after China demanded India scrap an international religious gathering
Nepal has told the 207 detained Tibetans to return back to Tibet within three days even though many of their visas allowed them to stay on in Nepal till February.
In his five-hour long stop over in Nepal on Saturday, Chinese Premiere Wen Jiabao gave Nepal a late new year gift worth $119 million in aid. The meeting, which is being hailed as a “milestone,” taking Nepal-China relations to “new height”
In reports coming out of Tibet, a self-immolation by a Tibetan layman earlier today in Ngaba, eastern Tibet, has triggered a mass demonstration resulting in the death of one woman due to bullet wounds.
The self-immolation, the 16th since March last year, occurred at around 1.30 pm Tibet time in the distraught Ngaba region
In the single biggest arrest of Tibetans on Nepali soil, police on Thursday night arrested hundreds of Tibetans for “illegally entering” the country. The Tibetans were arrested on the outskirts of the capital Kathmandu near Thankot in four separate buses coming from India
Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama today returned to his exile home of Dharamshala, northern India after successfully concluding his 32nd Kalachakra teachings. Over 200,000 devotees attended the Kalachakra teachings held from January 1-10, in Bodh Gaya from 63 countries
China warned the United States against using religious incidents as a pretext to interfere in its “domestic affairs”, after Washington said it was “seriously concerned” over the alarming wave of self-immolations in Tibet.
The US government expressed its “serious concern” over the fiery episode of self-immolations in Tibet a day after 42-year old Sonam Wangyal became the third Tibetan in this year alone to die after setting himself on fire in eastern Tibet.
One of the hallmarks of the 32nd Kalachakra teachings has been the social service work rendered by volunteers of the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), the largest pro-independence group in exile.
