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Tibetans in the Indian capital New Delhi stormed the Chinese embassy yesterday to protest the arrival of China’s Defence Minister Liang Guanglie and Yang Jinshan, commander of the Tibet military district.

A senior Chinese official has said that the stalled Sino-Tibet dialogue process will not resume at least till the end of this year and denied any new approach to the Tibetan issue.

Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama today attended the official function in the Tibetan exile headquarters of Dharamshala to commemorate the 52nd Tibetan Democracy Day, although he chose not to address the gathering.

DHARAMSHALA, August 31: Hundreds of Tibetans and supporters, including the Tibetan Chief Justice Commissioners and Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay today attended a mass prayer service held in honour of Tibetan self-immolators Lobsang Kalsang and Dhamchoe.

The Chinese embassy in New Delhi has once again issued letters and even paid visits to foreign embassies in the Indian capital, telling them not to receive a visiting Tibetan delegation from Dharamshala.

A global movement of Tibet advocacy groups has written an open letter to United Nations human rights chief, Navi Pillay, urging her to make Tibet an “urgent priority” in her second term in office

Ahead of Chinese Defence Minister’s visit to India, New Delhi reasserted Thursday its claim over the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, which China “illegally” refers to as southern Tibet.

Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama has said that although he doesn’t encourage self-immolations, the ongoing wave of fiery protests in Tibet was “understandable and very, very said.”

The suppressed voices of Tibetan writers inside Tibet will find expression among world-renowned writers at the Bjørnson Festival of International Literature in Norway. The Festival will feature an event on the plight of Tibetan writers

Days after the death of a Tibetan protester in an anti-mining demonstration, Tibetans in Gade region of Golog, eastern Tibet carried out a protest against Chinese gold miners at the sacred Dringye Ngo Sorma mountain.