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I live in a foreign land where Tibetan festivals hold no immediate meaning. Struggling onto crowded subways each morning and each night, avoiding the empty gaze of st

The Chinese authorities dangle profit in front of the greedy eyes of Western firms but then as those firms rush in and struggle to establish themselves in the

This morning I received a phone call. It said you envoys arrived in Peking on January 25. It said you would make your first visit to the province of Hunan. It is sai

Under such circumstances Ngabo and his counterpart Phuntsok Wangyal, far from being branded traitors must be regarded as genuine patriots, perhaps even as saint-like figures in the pantheon of

Most Tibetans, it seems, want to celebrate Losar this year. I agree that a modest observance of our most important cultural holiday would not come amiss right now,

Unfortunately, Beijing continues to insist that ethnic tensions are the result of meddling by "separatist forces led by the Dalai clique." Conveniently, this allows China's leaders to divert attention away from critical domestic policy failures

It's surely not a happy situation when an Indian like myself, with over 37 year long association with Tibet and Tibetans, is suddenly inclined to underline the differences

The Tibetan language, like an asthma patient in a dust storm, is gasping for breath. Although Tibetan children born and raised in locations as geographically

Beijing is becoming increasingly nervous. The fact that China is today a recognised world power (the Middle Kingdom has become the second largest economy

Ironically or paradoxically - whatever you may call it, while the world media is inundated with the news about the war of words between Google and China over the latter’s blatant and barefaced cyber attacks through cyber-espionage, theft an