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Tibetans in the eastern Tibetan region of Serthar, Kardze carried out fresh protests calling for Tibet’s independence on Monday. According to a report by AP, “dozens of Tibetans, including monks, held up a portrait of the Dalai Lama” in an act of defiance against Chinese rule.

Twelve Tibetans were arrested yesterday for protesting outside the venue of the two-day boundary talks between India and China in the Indian capital New Delhi. The arrested Tibetans were all members of the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), the largest pro-independence group in exile.

Thousands of Tibetans from around the Golok region of eastern Tibet attended the funeral of Sonam Wangyal Sopa Rinpoche on Sunday morning. Sopa Rinpoche, a respected spiritual figure in his early forties passed away on the spot after drinking and spraying kerosene all over his body

The Chinese government is now up to bribing Tibetans inside Tibet to celebrate the upcoming Tibetan New Year ‘Losar’. Speaking to Phayul, a Tibetan exile citing contacts inside Tibet said Chinese government officials were coaxing Tibetans with money and gifts to celebrate ‘Losar’ (February 22-24)

The German Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid, Markus Löning has called for an end to the repressive political environment in Tibet saying that further repression will fail to reduce the despair of the Tibetan people.

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