Opinions

A few days ago, there was a news item quoting the Dalai Lama as having said that he wished to be the last of his line, and that he would like the position itself to be abolished after his death. This is a significant reiteration of something the Dalai Lama has been talking about for quite some time.

High on the Tibetan Plateau, the city of Lhasa is threatened with submersion, but not by its neighboring river. With the large influx of Han Chinese over the past several decades, the character of this once exotic and isolated city is changing rapidly.

On January 26, 2003, in Sichuan province, China executed Lobsang Dondrup, a Tibetan political prisoner, on allegations of having been involved in bombings aimed at supporting Tibetan independence.

The imposition of Chinese urban and industrial models on traditional modes of production amongst Tibet¹s nomads is leading to increasing poverty and contributing to grassland degradation, according to the findings of recent surveys of

The February 2003 edition of the Hong Kong magazine 'Contend' (Zheng Ming) featured an article by mainland writer Zhang Yao Jie, commenting on the drama 'I Will Wait for You in Heaven'.

Xinhua and several other official Chinese sources have recently released a spate of reports on rapid economic growth in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) over the last two years. These reports are consistent with the pattern observed since the late 1990s

It is another cold morning and I wrap my hands around a mug of hot water. I watch trucks approach from all directions as they send out tails of creamy dust. Smoke from a cluster of wool tents swirls around me.

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru visiting Indian soldiers deployed near Tezpur in the Assam foothills. On his right is Defence Minister Y B Chavan who was appointed after the removal of V K Krishna Menon.

Almost all accounts of Sino-Indian history place great blame for the Sino-Indian war on Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Despite great experience in foreign affairs, he failed to adequately read the new Communist leadership of China.

Ngawang Sangdrol, the nun who served ten years in prison for peaceful protest before being released nine years before the end of her 21-year sentence on "good behaviour" parole last October, has been allowed to leave Tibet and arrived in Chicago in the US on Friday afternoon (28 March).