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A video footage depicting the twin self-immolations of Sonam and Choephag Kyab, along with an audio recording of their last will was released by the Dharamshala based Central Tibetan Administration earlier today.

The Dharamshala based Tibetan People’s Movement for Middle Way in a release Tuesday came out in full support of the exile Tibetan family marching back to Tibet carrying a Chinese flag, calling their initiative “exemplary.” The release comes days after Tibetan Youth Congress objected the parading of Chinese flag

Al-Jazeera, the Qatar based news service, has been forced to close its English-language bureau in Beijing after its reporter was expelled. China decided not to renew the press credentials and visa for Melissa Chan al-Jazeera's China correspondent since 2007 while further refusing to allow a replacement.

In a revival of Cultural Revolution tactics, monks at the Karma Monastery in Chamdo, Tibet are being forced to disrobe by Chinese officials. The monastery itself has been placed under a heightened security clampdown

Statistics releases by a Chinese state company say that more than 49 million people have travelled on the Gormo-Lhasa railway since the route opened in July 2006 with an average 10.3 percent annual passenger increase.

A Tibetan activist has been rallying across the length and breadth of India with his eyes blindfolded to highlight the “plight” of the Tibetan people inside Tibet and the “indifference” shown by the United Nations and world leaders. Sherab Tsedor, a Tibetan youth, began his blindfolded march

In another instance of forced removal of Tibetan nomads from their grasslands, Chinese authorities have grabbed land from three Tibetan nomadic villages in eastern Tibet. The land confiscated from the Setong, Dragmar, and Seru villages will be given to thousands of new Chinese migrants.

The Education Department of Central Tibetan Administration yesterday held a daylong college orientation programme for class 12 graduate students in the exile Tibetan headquarters of Dharamshala.

Amidst growing repression and heightened tensions in Kirti Monastery in Ngaba, eastern Tibet, its exile branch monastery in Dharamshala on Saturday commemorated the Kirti Rinpoche lineage’s 600 years of teachings of the Buddha dharma.

Adam Yauch, one-third of the Beastie Boys and a staunch supporter of the free Tibet movement, died at the age of 47. The musician, director and Tibet activist was diagnosed with salivary gland cancer and passed away in New York yesterday.