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Tibet will be facing yet another cut-off from the outside world beginning mid-February through March, according to reports. The ban encompasses two important events; the Tibetan New Year from February 22-24 and the Tibetan national uprising day commemorated on March 10.

A sitting member of the 15th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile has resigned citing personal reasons. Geshe Yungdrung Gyaltsen, member of the 15th Parliament from Do-Toe province submitted his resignation dated January 1, 2012, according to a report on the official Parliamentary Secretariat website.

Scarce details have emerged on the fate of Tibetans arrested last year in Ngaba, following the fiery wave of self-immolations that continues to engulf the region. A Tibetan native of Ngaba, arrested early last year, was sentenced to three years in jail in January.

Two abbots and seven monks of Karma monastery in the Tibetan city of Chamdo were arrested late October 2011 for refusing to denounce Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Abbots, Lodoe Rabsel, 40 and Namsey Sonam, 44, along with seven other monks

Drawing sharp reactions from Beijing, the US ambassador to China, Gary Locke has said that the communist nation’s human rights record was deteriorating. "The human rights climate has always ebbed and flowed in China, up and down, but we seem to be in a down period and it's getting worse

Details are finally emerging of the Tibetan man whose self-immolation on January 14 in the besieged Ngaba region of eastern Tibet led to public demonstrations and police firing. The man has been identified as 22-year-old Losang Jamyang

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)