In the hurly-burly of day-to-day politics, Tibet has receded quite a distance in our horizon. Even when we talk about the political environment in our neighbourhood, Tibet rarely figures in it
Year 2009 has very special significance in the history of today’s People’s Republic of China (PRC). In October this year the Communist rulers of Beijing will celebrate the 60t
A few rungs lower on the literary ladder we have Tom Grunfeld, author of The Making of Modern Tibet, who also insists that Tibet was not Hilton’s model for Shangri
They were turned away because they were Tibetan, because of their race. Are these isolated cases that happen because of personal prejudice (never mind that Tashi Tsering went
The world is currently in one of its worst recession in the last 50 years. International trade is forecasted to fall by more than 13% in 2009 and the world’s economy
Though coming from markedly different backgrounds, Mr Wu and I have come to the same unwavering conclusion that Tibet was a sovereign kingdom for many years before the Chinese military takeover of 1950s
A more accurate description would be "Chinese-occupied Tibet." We would not, I believe expect to see an article describing a trip to Baghdad referring to the "Iraq region of the United States," would we?
The Chinese government has convinced itself that it has “liberated” Tibet. To drive home this conviction to the rest of the world it has bought advertisements in newspapers from Malawi to India to declare
On April 8, two Tibetans, Lobsang Gyaltsen and Loyak, were sentenced to death by the Municipal Intermediate People's Court in Lhasa. Both men were convicted of committing
