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China's defence budget is expected to almost double by 2015 and outstrip the combined defence spending of all of her neighbours according to defence forecasts.

Two Tibetans were arrested after leaflets warning of more ‘free Tibet protests’ were cited near a Chinese police station in Kardze Saturday. Tashi Palden, 21 was arrested for raising slogans calling for a ‘Free Tibet’

As Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping landed in the U.S. Monday, Tibetans and supporters unfurled a huge banner, sending a “defiant message of freedom” to the Chinese leaders stating “Xi Jinping: Tibet Will be Free”

A British reporter from the Guardian newspaper was able to sneak into the distraught Ngaba (Ch:Aba) region of eastern Tibet and provide a rare glimpse of the situation from behind the iron curtain of Chinese repression.

Yet another teenage Tibetan monk has set his body on fire protesting against the Chinese government today. The Tibetan has been identified as Losang Gyatso, age 19, a monk at the Kirit monastery

Yet another teenage Tibetan monk has set his body on fire protesting against the Chinese government today. The Tibetan has been identified as Losang Gyatso, age 19, a monk at the Kirit monastery in the beleaguered region of Ngaba, eastern Tibet.

Lobsang Yeshe, a monk from the exile base of Kirti monastery in Dharamshala, who has been closely following and reporting on the wave of self-immolations in Tibet has expressed fear of more self-immolations in Tibet in coming weeks.

Tenzin Choedron, the 18-year-old nun who self-immolated on February 11 in Ngaba, eastern Tibet passed away earlier today. The Dharamshala based Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile in a release today said Tenzin Choedron passed away at a Chinese military hospital in Barkham area this morning.

Following the recent surge in self-immolations and mass protests in Tibet, which have been violently quelled, Tibetans in exile say they are troubled with their helplessness at not being able to alleviate the sufferings

Amidst calls for an all out “war” against ongoing protests in Tibet issued by Communist Party leaders, a senior official in the Obama administration has said the US will be raising the Tibet Vice President Xi