Novelist Eliot Pattison really knows how to spin a story. He also wants you to sympathize with the plight of Tibetans, which is not difficult to do. "Bone Mountain," Pattison's third novel set in Tibet, is categorized as a mystery, but it's also very much a vehicle to espouse a cause, with little attempt at subtlety.
From its staunch Buddhism to a new anti-Aids campaign, James Pringle in Thimphu finds Bhutan is flourishing between the neighbours from hell. During that first chilly night in Thimphu, the Lilliputian Bhutanese capital, the night belonged to the dogs
India's remote northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh urged the federal government to improve infrastructure along the border with China to meet any security threat from its neighbour.
PBS is broadcasting the story of the restoration of an ancient Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Mustang (a kingdom within Nepal bordering Tibet) on February 18, 2003. The documentary, Lost Treasures of Tibet, produced by Nova
The execution on January 26 of Lobsang Dondrub, a Tibetan convicted of crimes relating to several bombing incidents in China in 2001 and 2002, and the parallel conviction of Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche
Free Tibet Campaign, as part of the International Tibet Support Network (ITSN) - a global coalition of more than 120 Tibet organisations worldwide - has called on the Greek Foreign Minister Mr Georgios Papandreou to raise the cases of Lobsang Dhondup
Promoting a message of independence through non-violence, three Indiana based Tibet support groups are coordinating a "March for Tibet's Independence" from Bloomington to Indianapolis.
