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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"

TYC Hunger Strike: Day 5 without food and water

The six hunger strikers in the Indian Capital are low on health but high on grit and determination. As they enter Day 5 of the TYC organized fast without food and water, physical limitations

Expert urges China visitors to encrypt data

China's blocking of Web sites has embarrassed the International Olympic Committee, but a computer security expert said on Thursday that visitors to Beijing also needed to protect their data from prying eyes.

China forces edits of Australian books

The Chinese government is stopping the production of Australian books which refer to subjects like the Dalai Lama and the China-Tibet border. Melbourne publisher Hardie Grant and academic

Hunger strike unto death in Nepal ends

The hunger strike unto death by 30 Tibetans was ended today. The 30 hunger strikers in Ekantakuna settlement, Jawalakhel, Kathmandu were

Leaking State Secrets: Beijing Finds Nothing Noble in Speaking Out on Human Rights

Tenzin Norgay has been following reports of human rights violations coming out of Tibet for over six years now. The hardest part, he says, is the unrealistic hopes of those who bring them to him

US House of Representatives Sends Strong Tibet Message to China and Bush on Eve of Beijing Olympics

Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday condemned China for its 'broken promises' in the buildup to the Olympics and called upon President Bush, who is attending

Tibet refugees in lurch without RC

Tibetans at 18 refugee camps, including the one in Kaski district, have not been able to get jobs or start businesses due to lack of Refugee Cards (RCs). The government stopped issuing RCs to the the refugees some

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