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I was visiting Phayul the other day and I noticed a link on the corner that proclaimed "Say No to Losar 2009". Click the link and it takes you to a registration page

March 2009 will mark 50 years in exile for the Dalai Lama and his followers. During this half-a-century, the Tibetan leader has supported India and stood by the country in the face of

Not so long ago, Lhasa’s deputy police chief had announced in a press conference that they had just detained 59 rumour-mongers who had been “inciting ethnic feelings

In an intriguing footnote to the inauguration last week of President Barack Obama, Buddhist web-sites have been buzzing with the story that as he was being sworn in, Obama

At the beginning of the New Year, the various festivals with best wishes have arrived one after another. These festivals include those of the East, the West, Tibet and

The whole world is suffering from an economic crisis. Some in the West, like a desperate drowning man clutching at a straw, have said the Chinese Government has a lot of money, let

On December 16th 2008, Time Magazine announced the annual People Of the Year List. Barak Obama topped the list, and one runner-up was China's Zhang Yimou, the epic filmmaker and Olympic

ardly two years after the end of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (and Mao Zedong's death), a diminutive man climbed the rostrum for the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central

Since Tibetans inside Tibet are under rigid alien subjugation and are denied basic fundamental freedom, the primary responsibility of our national struggle falls upon the shoulders of the ones living in exile, who are free and have all the basic resources as well as

t is now well established that for over a quarter of a century, China went on a spree of supplying Pakistan with nuclear weapons designs and technology. What is, however, not understood clearly is China's culpability in acting as a virtual accessory