News Archive

News Update June - July 2008

• Chairman's Note
• ITSN News digests for Friday 20th June 2008
• Chinese Authorities defiling Tibetan Buddhism
• Chinese Lawyers suppressed for offering legal help to Tibetans
• Testimony by a Tibetan youth in Lhasa
• Tibetan Freedom Torch Relay Schedule and Contacts
• China arrests 16 monks for defying "patriotic re-education"
• Thousands killed as earthquake hits Tibetan areas
• Tibetan Nuns Jailed, Detained
• Chinese Officials Ordered to Send Their Kids to "Guard the Torch"
• Dalai Lama hails fall of Berlin Wall
• Dalai Lama seeks Olympics invitation
• During Talks, China Urged to Halt Repression in Tibet
• London University Honours His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Spanish Court Hears Testimony from Tibet monks in Genocide Case
• Chinese Earthquake Media Release - The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama

News Update April - June 2008

• Chairman's Note
• News Overview: June 10 2008
• Chinese Earthquake Media Release - The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Monks Defy Authorities Against Pledge to Denounce the Dalai Lama
• News Overview: April 7 2008
• News Overview: April 1 2008
• An Appeal to the Chinese People from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
• Red faces in Beijing after Tibetan PR disaster
• Elderly Tibetan woman brutally beaten for refusing to denounce Dalai Lama

News Update February 2008 - March 2008

• Chairman's Note
• China Cracks Down on Tibetan Buddhism Ahead of Olympics
• Chinese settlements in Tibet 'demographic aggression'
• It's Principles vs. Profits in Dealing With China
• The Story of Tibetan New Year
• UN Urged to Engage China to Respect Human Rights in Tibet
• Chinese Authorities plan to move controversial dam to Tibetan area
• Dalai Lama accuses China of "cultural genocide" in German interview
• Gordon Brown faces rift with Prince Charles over 'snub' to Dalai Lama
• Home Department to offer Skill Training for Unemployed Tibetan Youths
• Indian defence and the Abominable No Men
• Kalon Tenpa Tsering, Jetsun Pema conferred Honorary Citizenship in Italy
• My vision of a compassionate future
• Tibetan monk sentenced to three years term for "inciting masses"
• Tibetan PEN calls for unconditional release of detained Tibetan writers
• Tibetan People's Uprising Movement calling

News Update December 2007 - January 2008

• Chairman's Note
• His Holiness addresses the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony
• India reveals flawed Tibet policy
• Dalai Lama may name successor before death
• Nepal Stops 5,000 Tibetans From Getting US Asylum
• Tibetan refugees shot at by Chinese troops
• Tibetans 'should pick Dalai Lama'
• A chat with a god-king
• Afraid of the Dalai Lama?
• China crush monks for celebrating His Holiness' medal in Tibet
• China jails four Tibetans for "splittist" activity
• China: Four Tibetan Children at imminent risk of torture
• Ocean of Wit and Wisdoms
• Terror and celebration' in Lhasa as Dalai Lama receives Gold Medal award
• Tibetan activists in Tihar Jail after severe beatings by Delhi Police

News Update October - November 2007

• Chairman's Note
• Dalai Lama - 21st-Century Monk
• Dalai Lama to get Congressional gold medal on Oct 17
• Tibet: Taiwan Strengthens Bonds with Tibet
• China Detains Tibetan Boys Over Graffiti
• Young monks hone skills in Tibetan Buddhism in Dharamsala
• Bronze Duplicates of the Dalai Lama Congressional Gold Medal
• China Lays Olympic Torch Path to Everest
• China objects to Harper meeting with Dalai Lama
• China to tighten Everest access for Olympic torch relay
• China-German relations 'damaged' over Dalai Lama meeting
• Dalai Lama accuses China of "arrogance of power" on German visit
• His Holiness renews calls for Tibetan autonomy
• His Holiness supports call for democracy in Burma
• Men of Conscience Should Boycott the Beijing Olympic
• Merkel Meets Dalai Lama Despite Chinese Criticism
• Missing Tibet activist returns safe home in Mumbai
• Teenage Students Held Incommunicado for Graffiti
• Tibet: A New Direction?
• Tibet: NGOs Campaign Against Chinese Law
• Tibet's parliament-in-exile working for Tibetans across the world
• Austrian chancellor meets with Dalai Lama

News Update August - September 2007

• Chairman's Note
• Declaration of Tibet's Independence
• Use of Torture still endemic in Chinese occupied Tibet:
• Historic Tibetan passport to be on display in Delhi
• China Destroys Giant Buddhist Statue in Tibet
• Dalai Lama attracts audience of 10,000
• China 'open for talks' with Dalai Lama
• Education, Employment Top Concerns for Tibetan Youth
• His Holiness' Australia-New Zealand tour proves a hit
• Tibet is a colonised country and, not just an occupied territory
• Dalai Lama says Tibetan resistance to stay peaceful
• Dalai Lama voices alarm at human rights in Tibet
• China plays down trip by Dalai Lama's envoys
• Courtesy demands formal meeting with Dalai Lama - Editorial
  

News Update April - May 2007

• Chairmans note
• The statement of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the 48th Anniversary of Tibetan National Uprising Day
• Rangzen: The case for independent Tibet
• Until the last Tibetan
• Monks reveal brutal state crackdown
• Indian MPs lend support to Dalai Lama's cause
• EU: Dialogue between Chinese government and Dalai Lama
• Germany hoists the flag for Tibet - Almost 800 mayors display their solidarity with Tibet
• Terror group's threat raises Dalai Lama alert
• Tibet: EU and Canada Adopt Resolutions
• Boycott Beijing Olympics - French Presidential candidate

News Update February - March 2007

• Chairmans note
• Still Tibetan after all these years
• Tibetans banned from marking traditional Buddhist anniversary
• 2007 Year of intensive support for Tibet launched
• Rail link brings AIDS, beggars to Tibet -Dalai Lama
• We Need to Revisit Tibetan History
• Looking Back From Nangpa-La -Jamyang Norbu
• Dalai Lama concerned over growing Chinese population in Tibet
• Human Rights Watch Says Lhasa Railroad Increased Tibetan Concerns About Marginalization
• Massive metals deposits revealed along China's Qinghai-Tibet Railway
• Non-violence vs violence: The case of Tibet and Palestine
• Campaign to free Tibet: Writing letter to PM in blood
  

News Update December 2006 - January 2007

• Chairman's Note
• Dalai Lama's Brother Slams Tougher Chinese Stance on Tibet
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Special Envoy gives briefing on dialogue
• China: Fewer Tibetans on Lhasa's Key Ruling Body Lowest Representation Since 1966
• Hu's afraid of a simple monk
• TIME Lists Dalai Lama Among Asian Heroes
• An exclusive interview with His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• White House: Bush to Raise Tibet Issue During APEC Summit
• Tibetans Stage Rare Public Protest in Lhasa
• A Journey Back to My Homeland, Tibet

News Update August - September 2006

• Chairman's Note
• I am a simple Buddhist monk: Dalai Lama
• Potala Palace, the jewel of Tibet, overrun with tourists
• Political repression intensifies as Tibet railway opens
• Press Release: Dalai Lama to Visit New Zealand in 2007
• The Two Ancient Prophecies
• Citizen Dalai Lama
• Commentary manuscript lands Tibetan youth ten years in prison
• Concerns raised over Tibet's future on Dalai Lama's 71st birthday
• Dalai Lama: don't forget Tibet
• Dalai Lama remains central to Tibetans
• Excerpts from "What The Tibetan Issue Is"
• Notes on a Journey to Tibet, written to a friend at Kopan Monastry, Nepal
• Re-education campaign in Tibetan schools in Tibet
• Buddhist nuns arrested for calling for Tibet's independence

News Update June - July 2006

• Chairman's Note
• In Greater Tibet, Dalai Lama's light burns bright
• Fleeing a Tibetan monastery
• Speech by Jigme Norbu
• Tibet genocide trial in Spain irks China
• Jetsun Pema Awarded Children's Prize
• US senate honours Dalai Lama
• China invites oil firms to join invasion of Tibet
• China World Buddhist Forum Excludes Dalai Lama
• Dalai Lama meets Belgian Prime Minister and addresses the Belgian Senate
• Dalai Lama seeks to improve Islam's image
• Game Over Lhasa: Streets with Memories
• Gold and copper in Tibet
• Moderate Muslims Seek Help From the Dalai Lama
• Put Tibet Back on the Map
• Stop Tibet's gold rush in the international market

News Update April - May 2006

• Chairman's Note
• 10th March Speech by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Why China will Change
• Tibet Protest at Tiananmen Square at the National People's Congress
• Dalai Lama calls for nuclear-free world
• The role of Tibetan Youths
• Filmmaker Rick Ray to Present "10 Questions for the Dalai Lama"
• Legislatures Ask His Holiness How We Can Help
• "No Olympics in China Until Tibet is Free"
• 'Song of Sadness' from Drapchi prison: The official Chinese verdict on the Drapchi 'singing nuns'
• Special Envoy's Statement

News Update December 2005

• Chairmans Note
• Dalai Lama to ask Bush to help resolve Tibet issue: Envoy
• US to investigate Chinese looting of Tibet
• Mass silent protest in Tibet's Drepung Monastery following China's continued implementation of "patriotic education"
• The Status of the Sino-Tibetan Dialogue Speech by Kelsang Gyaltsen at the Fourth World Parliamentarian Convention on Tibet
• Time is Running Out, Save Tibet Before Extinction: Kalon Tripa
• China recommences "patriotic education" campaign in Tibet's monastic institutions
• China tightens stranglehold on Tibet's monasteries: report
• China to tap Tibet's hydel potential to sell power to India
• Chinese Authorities Step Up Anti-Separatist Campaign in Tibetan Region
• Dalai Lama meets President Bush at White House
• Dalai Lama says 'too early' to tell impact of Afghan, Iraqi wars
• Dalai lama urges Christians not to convert to Buddhism
• Dalai Lama praises Parliament
• His Holiness sends congratulatory letter to the Nobel peace prize winner of year 2005
• Historic film looks at Tibet
• India, the holy land...
• Is Lodi Gyari Quitting?
• Lhasa LAYER BY LAYER
• Might versus right
• Nepal cracks down on Tibetan refugees afresh
• No Significant Change in China's Policies: Dalai Lama
• Over 600 Tibetan Monks, Nuns Should Be Freed
• President Bush Urged to Ask China to Begin Substantive Discussions on Tibet
• Scotland Hosts 4th World Parliamentarian's Convention on Tibet
• Tenzin Tsundue: Merging Political Activism and Writing
• Tibet culture being debased by tourism
• Tibetan Members of Parliament in exile to visit London, UK
• Tibetan monk dies after 'patriotic education' in China
• Tibetan Parliament Leader Says World Parliamentarians Have Impacted Chinese Policies on Tibet
• Tibetan Showman Steals the Show in Korea
• Tibetans jailed in Nepal, deportation likely
• Tibet's future depends on solution within China
• US Congress backs Dalai Lama's drive for greater autonomy in Tibet
• A young monk dies under mysterious circumstances following the "patriotic education" campaign in Drepung monastery
  

News Update September 2005

• Chairman's Note
• World's First Official Car License Plate dedicated to Tibet
• Celebrities join London reception for His Holiness' birthday
• China Plots to Repeat Panchen Lama on Dalai Lama
• China railroads over Tibet's suffering
• Dalai Lama hopes to return to Tibet
• Dalai Lama Lives in the Hearts of the Tibetans, Says Indian Author
• Dalai Lama Photograph Re-hung at University
• Dalai Lama rejects theory of clash of civilizations
• Disturbing the balance
• Envoys of the Dalai Lama meet Chinese officials in Switzerland
• EU-China talks are 'gimmick', warns top Tibetan
• Forgive but never forget
• Global warming threatens Tibet rail link
• Gyalo Thondup Talks About Tibet-China Contact
• Hello Dalai - A tribute to the world's greatest religious leader-and his lessons to and from the Jews.
• His Holiness at Three Score and Ten
• Historic Legacy of 14th Dalai Lama is Immortalised in Golden Letters
• India to raise Kailash route issue with China
• Mass pilgrimage for Dalai Lama's birthday
• Meditation 'brain training' clues
• Panchen Rinpoche's case raised at the 57th Session of the UN Sub-commission on Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
• Rice Asks China to Reach Out to Dalai Lama
• Sikkim and tired
• The Art and Politics of Tibet
• There may not be another Dalai Lama
• Thimphu-Beijing boundary talks has Delhi worried
• Tibet Enlarges Mineral Deposits Prospecting
• Tibet resolutions passed at PEN International
• Tibetan eye crystals - Good Vibrations
• Tibetan Girl Among Top Five New York Students
• Tibetan Graduates Protest for Jobs, Eight Said To Be Arrested
• Tibetans Among Those Watched Closely by PRC
• Tibetans ignore rains to fete Dalai Lama on birthday
• Tibetans in Exile Get Ready for Parliamentary and Cabinet Chairman Election
• Truth from Facts
• We are in the process for a new office for Tibetans : UNHCR
• Western Companies Under Fire for Derailing Tibet
• Bhutanese Assembly members alarmed by road construction across northern boundary

News Update June-July 2005

• Chairman's Note
• US Administration report on Tibet dialogue
• A Nomad Who Became a Diplomat
• Black holes in Beijing history books are a match for Japanese silences
• Bombardier draws fire over Chinese rail project
• China accepts Sikkim as part of India
• China's Development Of My Fatherland: Progress Or Destruction?
• Chinese leader beats Free Tibet protest with early arrival for NZ talks
• Chinese politician takes side door to avoid MP's protest
• Dalai Lama's spiritualism softening Chinese hearts
• Deadline Nearing for World's First Official License Plate Honoring Tibet
• Great minds gather in Jordan to tackle global woes
• Harper announces candidacy in Brossard
• His Holiness The Dalai Lama Greets New Pope
• India, China sign win-win deal
• India's position on Tibet Unchanged
• 'Karmapa's return to Rumtek depends on India'
• Monks sentenced 11 years for Tibetan national flag
• The Norwegian Tibet committee meets with Special Representative of the UN Secretary - General on Human Rights Defenders
• Nurturing a dream of returning home
• Proceeds from the Dalai Lama's Visit to Mexico Donated to Five Humanitarian Projects
• Resettlement and railroad construction in Lhasa
• Shaking hands with China
• Statement by Canadian Parliamentarian to mark first anniversary of visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Ottawa
• Statements in both Houses of the Canadian Parliament
• Strong Peaceful Activism Needed for Tibet Issue, Says Kalon Tripa
• TCHRD commemorates 10 years' disappearance of the Panchen Lama
• The Karmapa's Dance of Politics (IPS)
• "Tibet: The Gap between Fact and Fabrication - Tibetan response to China's White Papers"
• Tibetan exiles in India plan birthday bash for Dalai Lama
• Tibetan Monk Held in Qinghai
• Tibetan refugee graduates from MHS after difficult journey
• Tibetans Appeal Compensation Over Loss of Homes, Land
• Tibet's missing spiritual guide
• Two monks sentenced to three years for pasting posters
• University removes Dalai Lama's image to placate Chinese students
• A journey to freedom, success

News Update April-May 2005

• Chairman's Note
• White Paper of distorted facts and figures
• A rail station on the world's roof
• A Simple Monk in Nepal
• Care and cure, the Tibetan way
• China Discloses Prisoner Details Gesture Precedes Possible U.N. Vote
• China says minority separatists still active
• China's Amnesia - Letter to the Editor
• Dalai Lama's Belgian trip shelved to avoid China row
• Emerging Asian giants edge closer as Chinese premier begins India visit
• Free Tibet before free-trade with China
• Free Tibet Crowd Lays into Mining
• Friends of Tibet ask China to start talks with Tibetans
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama Mourns the Passing Away of Pope John Paul II
• Home away from home for destitute Tibetan children
• Human Rights Situation in Tibet: Annual Report 2004
• Interview with His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorjee
• Kashag Shuts Down Budapest Office of Tibet
• Letters from Lhasa
• "Millions in the world respect the Dalai Lama," British MP tells gathering
• Nepal: The Chinese squeeze
• New millionaire walked around with ticket in his wallet for days
• Secrets of Tibet: New Poem by Oser
• No China Resolution at 61st Session of UNCHR (TCHRD)
• 46th Anniversary of Tibetan Uprising Day in New Zealand
• Partners in China's railway to the sky
• Protesters Dub Tibetan Art Exhibit 'Pro-China Propaganda'
• South Asian Literary Conference Honours Tibet
• Shangri-la: Dream that became a busy reality
• School is exiles' tool of survival
• Shootings leave Tibetan community shaken
• Statement of United Sates Senator Russ Reingold
• The Editor, South China Morning Post
• The First Ever Australian Conference Of Tibetan Communicites In Melbourne
• The Statement of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the 46th Anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day
• 'Tibet is both a tragedy and a triumph
• Tibetan community of Chicago receives $40,000 grant from United Way of Metro Chicago
• HIV/AIDS and the Tibetan Diaspora
• Tibetan Scholars assess chances for a Sino-Tibetan dialogue
• Tibetans walk through 260 km for the cause
• Tibetans in Southern Tibet Face Restriction
• Tibetans say Happy New Year in Dharamsala
• Train heads for Tibet, carrying fears of change; Migration, tourism likely to increase
• UN hits out at China's judicial system for political and arbitrary bias
• U.S. Cautious as China Offers Details on Political Prisoners
• United States Annual Human Rights Report Says China Commits Serious Human Rights Abuses in Tibet
• The Statement of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the 46th Anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day

News Update March 2005

• Chairman's Note
• When Was Tibet Not Tibet?
• Ashoka the Great
• China arrests Tibetan monk with Dalai Lama's picture: activists
• Report: China holds meeting demanding greater obedience from Tibetan religious leaders
• Closure of Tibetan offices sends wrong signals
• Core Group Organizes Conference on "Make Tibet a Zone of Ahimsa" in Aurangabad
• Dramatic Decrease in No. of Tibetan Cadres in "TAR", Statistics Show
• Endangered Chiru finds hope in govt breeding plan
• Fire Razes People's Hall in Sichuan, Arson Suspected
• "Freedom is going to happen" TYC Leadership Conference told
• Group Criticizes China for Rights Abuses in 2004
• His Holiness' Address to the Assembly of Tibetan People's Deputies
• Historic Himalayan Ice Dams Created Huge Lakes, Mammoth Floods
• India wakes up to China's Tibet roadmap
• Letter: Modernising Tibet
• Lifting arms export ban on China attacked by Lib Dems
• Message from Tibet (CS)
• Monks' meditation helps scientists see brain
• Nepal Orders Closure of Dalai Lama's Office and Tibetan Refugee Organization in Kathmandu
• Nqawang Sangdrol Nominated for "International Woman of the Year"
• Playing with nature must end: Rinpoche
• PM ignores china crimes while bush fights for freedom
• President Hu meets "Panchen Zuma"
• Qinghai-Tibet railway construction nearing completion
• Rice warns EU over China arms ban
• Semshook - Our Bond With India
• Identity Interrupted: The story of exile Tibetan Youth
• Tibet Facing Imperialism of Two Kinds: An Analysis of the Woeser Incident
• Tibetan Prisoner serving life sentence dies in Prison
• Tibetan task force revamped
• Tibet's Karakorum Faultline On The Move
• Tibet's Mines Up for Sale In International Market
• Truck turnover kills 54 in China
• Trulku's Death Sentence Commuted to Life Imprisonment
• War, politics, history? Ask this Tibetan nomad something important
• 108th Senate Ends with Intelligence Reform Bill, Resolutions on Ukraine and Tibet

News Update January 2005

• Chairman's Note
• "What Remains of Us" wins best documentary prize at 2004 Hollywood Film Festival
• A Melting Glacier in Tibet Serves as an Example and a Warning
• American school children thank Dalai Lama for Peace
• Australian Greens Policy on Tibet
• Behind Tibet's Myth
• Changing Tibet for a changing China
• China rejects Dalai Lama's conciliatory remarks
• China releases Tibetan activist after five years
• China's Invitation to Tibetan Envoys May Indicate Its Openness to Dialogue, Says China Expert
• Chinese mark imperialist invasion of Tibet
• Chinese presence in Tibet a military concern
• Clemency call for Tibetan monk
• CTA upset with Chinese authorities' action on Tibetan writer
• Divine Inspiration
• Doc Smuggles Dalai Lama Back Into Tibet
• Exile brothers eye music world
• Exposing The Lies Behind The so called "White Paper"
• 'Homesick' Dalai Lama Pines for Tibet, But China Says It Will Block His Return
• Hope vs Despair
• Hundreds of Jobless Tibetans Protest in Qinghai Province
• Indian and Tibetan MPs Campaign for Trulku Tenzin Delek
• Indomitable spirit
• New testimony on the Drapchi nuns
• North American Tibet Movement To Coordinate Efforts
• Russia For Its First Buddhist Cultural Festival
• Shattering the Shangri-La Stereotype:Tibetans re-branded
• Statement on Tibet by Canadian Member of Parliament during House of Commons session
• Students share experiences of meeting Dalai Lama
• The Visionary
• Tibet: In the crosshairs and at a crossroads
• Tibetans remain cold to China
• We Support MWA: Norwegian Parliamentarians
• A Conversation with the Dalai Lama

News Update November 2004

• Chairman's Note
• What If India Had Won The 1962 War Against China?
• A British-India & China Alliance: A Tibet's Historical Mystery
• A heartbreaking look at Tibet
• A cry to the world on behalf of Tibet (MH)
• China's Panchen Lama visits Tibet
• China signals talks unlikely with Dalai Lama
• China: Towards Democracy Or Fascism?
• China Urged to Stop Rights Abuse Ahead of 2008 Games
• China's biggest problem - Dalai Lama is still the heart and soul of Tibet
• China's drive to transform Tibet (BBC)
• Chinese report questions history
• Dalai Lama Envoy Visits China for Autonomy Talks (Reuters)
• Dalai Lama says no clash between East and West
• Ethnic Chinese Immigrants Throng Tibetan Streets
• Has the Dalai Lama finally struck a chord with Hu's China!
• His Holiness Addresses the ATPD
• Home for the first time
• In Mexico, Dalai Lama says environmental damage to Tibet shows China dumping nuclear waste there
• India prepares for Tibetan flood
• Interview: Kasur Tenzin Namgyal Tethong
• Korea-Tibet Cooperation on History Urged
• Peaceful Protest by Tibet Activists Halted by Police in Advance of Olympic Closing Ceremony
• Peacemaker in Lhasa
• 'Seeking truth from facts' in Tibet
• Share tips on peace at home
• Snow Land is also Show Land (IPS)
• Tibet activists plea for rights progress before 2008
• Tibet Campaigners carry out Olympics Action in Beijng
• Tibet Festival Highlights Issue of Religious Freedom
• Tibet issue raised in Indian Parliament
• Tibetan activists breach Olympic security in Athens
• Tibetan Flag in 1934 National Geographic
• Tibetan leader's daughter has eye on politics
• Tibetan Monk Shot Dead in Qinghai, Officials Appeal for Calm
• Tibetans continue to flee to India for asylum
• Tibetans mark 44 years of Democracy
• Tibetans returning from exile face prosecution in China
• Water relased from Tibet lake, maximum alert in Himachal
• We Invited His Holiness to Address Indian Parliamentarians
• 2004 International Religious Freedom Report on Tibet, issued by the US Dept of State

News Update September 2004

• Chairman's Note
• UN Ignores Tibet Genocide
• A New "Re-Education-Through-Labour " Camp Established in Tibet
• At Himalayan Pass, Mailmen break the Ice between India and China
• Beijing Rejects Special Deal with Tibet
• China strongly opposes US report on Tibet issue
• Contacts Between China, Dalai Lama Encouraging, U.S. Says
• Dalai Lama, World Peace Ceremony
• Dalai Lama worried about moves to lift EU arms embargo on China
• Does anyone still care about Tibet?
• Harvard Honours the First Tibetan With PH.D in Law
• India's exiled Tibetans reject China's white paper on autonomy
• Issue of Tibet Presented in Hungarian Parliament
• Jiang's Art of War and Tibet Issue
• Kashag Presents Three Years' Plan
• MSPs get peace of Dalai Lama's mind
• New Crackdown on Tibetan Buddhism Underway by Chinese Authorities
• New Details on Cases of Tibetan Political Imprisonment
• No more playing Tibet as "card" for leaving Tibetans alone
• Petition to protect Namtso Lake successful
• Shaping the Future of Tibet - A conference on Self-Determination & Individual Activism
• International Olympic Committee's 'bet' that the 2008 Olympic Games will improve human rights in China shows no sign of fulfilment
• Questions about rights in Tibet are not what the Chinese want to hear
• Setting Border Issue won't be that smooth
• Situation for Tibetan Refugees in Nepal Remains Unstable, New Report Finds
• Tibet Set to Become Next Flashpoint: Danielle Mitterrand
• Tibetan immigrant celebrates Independence Day as a new U.S. citizen
• Tibetans Challenge Chinese Claim About Situation in Tibet
• Tibetans challenge Chinese public relations mission to Ottawa
• Traveller's tale from Forbidden City
• 50 years of Panchsheel: Why Our Foreign Minister Wants to Celebrate a Defeat

News Update July 2004

• Chairman's Note
• Your Parly would be a Topper in Tibet
• Being the last Dalai Lama doesn't trouble monk currently filling role
• Canada PM defies China, meets Dalai Lama
• Canada sets a global example: Dalai Lama
• Canadian parliament begins probe of China's human rights record
• China arrests four Tibetan nuns on return from India
• China pushing its own Panchen Lama choice
• China isn't a charity case
• China tells Dalai Lama self-ruled Tibet not an option
• China's White Paper on Human Rights: A Whitewash
• Dalai Lama ends visit to Toronto, wows thousands at final ceremony
• The Observer Profile: The Dalai Lama On a mission
• Dalai Lama 'optimistic' about relations with China
• Documentary explores role of Tibetan Buddhism in western spiritual life
• The dreams of the refugees (CNEW)
• French Parliamentary Group for Tibet Dedicates 2005 to Tibet
• Human Rights in Tibet at the Swedish Parliament (TCS)
• Interview with Pema Jungney, Chairman of the Tibetan Assembly
• Land of the voiceless
• New Metal Barricades in Lhasa's Jokhang Control Access to Inner Temple
• Plea to China: Punish us, punish us - please
• Statement by Japan Parliamentarian Group for Tibet on the Tibetan Youth
• Takna, Deputies Pay Tribute to a Martyr
• Teenager asked to greet Dalai Lama with Gaelic song
• The Dalai Lama
• Tibet: Cry of The Snow Lion
• Tibetan hopes
• Tibetan kids make French connection
• Tibetan Woman Completes London Marathon
• Tibetan Youth Congress Calls off Hunger Strike
• Tibet's Meek, Hardly Asking For the Earth
• UN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Sixtieth session
• When Patsy met the Dalai Lama: Joanna Lumley's Road to Enlightenment
• A meeting with the Dalai Lama

News Update April 2004

• Chairman's Note
• United States annual human rights report finds China guilty of abuses in Tibet
• Canucks rally to holy man; peace message strikes chord
• China cracks down on TV station that showed Tibetan flag
• Dharamsala: the tourist town the Tibetan exodus built
• Films highlight Tibetan struggle
• New Year Interviews with Samdhong Rinpoche
• Press Release Shakapa Passport
• Statement of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the Forty-Fifth Anniversary of Tibetan National Uprising Day
• Statement of the Kashag on the 45th Anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day
• There is no change in my stand on Tibet's future, says Takna Jigme Sangpo
• Tibet Situation Addressed in the Norwegian Parliament Question Time
• Tibetans Slam Dalai Lama Portrait Ban As Provocative
• Tibetans driven out of China by lack of schooling
• Tibetans in Nepal Pressured to Not Hold Public New Year Celebration
• Tibet's bloody tale told in 'Snow Lion' (MJS)
• Tibet's cry falls on deaf ears.....
• Tibet's longest-serving female prisoner of conscience finally released
• Tibet's `nowhere people' want their country freed
• 45 years ago, witness to Dalai Lama's flight did not know history being made
  

News Update - February 2004 Update

• Chairman's Note
• Tibetan Refugee discribes Torture in Chinese jail
• China's education record of Tibet dissapoints UN experts
• Chinese Journal discusses Chinese Perception of Dalai Lama
• Dalai Lama embodies Tibetan Hopes
• Dutch Parliament backs EURepresentative for Tibet
• Exile Tibetans accuses China of killing prisoners
• Fire & Snow A war in Shangri la
• Identity Confusion threatens Tibetans
• Irish Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing on Tibet
• Kashag's Statement on 14th Anneversary of Nobel Peace prize to His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Make Tibet zone of Peace
• Minister of State Kitt pledges EUR200,000 for Tibetan Community in India
• New Year Interview with Samdhon Rinpoche
• Panel examins Beijing Dalia Lama negotiation
• Seven Days in Tibet
• Spotlight falls on Tibet Links
• Statement by Mr. Pema Jungney to the world Parliamentary
• Statement by Neil Steedman Irish Support Group
• Ten year old writes to Canadiam PM
• Tibet Activists protestinside president's hotel
• Tibetan Becomes minority in their own country
• Tibetan Muslims relive homeland memories
• A Tibetan Teacher sentenced to five years imprisonment terms

News Articles - December 2003 Update

• Chairman's Note
• Trade, Human Right vie for attention as Chinese Leader visits New Zealand
• 4th International Tibet Support Groups Conference- Press Release
• Address by Mr. Kelsang Gyaltsen Envoy of H H the Dalai Lama to the European Parliament forum on Tibet
• Australian Politicians say Chinese Deplomats trying to gag Tibetan Protests
• Brussels accused of weak stance on Tibet
• Bush offers support to Dalai Lama
• China blast Japan for allowing Daai Lama visit
• China lays down law to Dalai Lama over posible return
• China's move to divert Tibetan river upset India's plan
• Chinese Communist Ideology, As Idealistic Approuch
• Dalai Lama received by Mayor of Paris
• Dalai Lama, China talk Unity
• Dharmsala urges Beijimg to lift ban on photographs
• European Parliament calls for China to drop the precondition Dailogue with Dalai Lama
• European Union ask China to receive UN Human Right Experts
• Four monks receive lenthy Imprisonment Terms
• Hu Should Listen to the Tibetan Leader
• Interview with Secretary of Department of Home
• Justice denied & rights denied for Tibetans in Nepal
• Layer blast Chinese over attempt to silence media
• Letters to Australian Newspapers
• Mission of the Fourth International Conference of Tibet Support Groups
• New Zealand calls for Dailogue on Tibet at UN debate
• No Improvement inside Tibet
• Resolution to Tibet Issue Unlikely
• The crux of Tibetan problem
• Thousands attend His Holiness Public Talk in Tokyo
• Tibet can benifit being part of China - Dalai Lama
• Tibet Issue given Prominence by European Parliament
• Tibet reminds us of our own past
• Tibetan flag hangs over Chinese radio tower
• Tibetan Nuns Stage Pro-Independence Protest in Lhasa
• Tibet's hidden tensions
• 47 MPs Urge UK to raise Tenzin Delek Rinpoche case during Chines Dailogue

News Articles - October 2003 Update

• Chairman's Note
• Up to Tibetans, not Beijing
• Beijing's Billion don't free Tibet
• China says vanished Panchen Lama Happy
• China's Hippies find their Berkely
• Chinese President behind Tibetan development push
• Chinese Press assesses Dalai Lama's Middle way
• Close aid of Chadrel Rinpoche still in custody
• Dalai Lama Explains Position on Chinese preconditions
• Dalai Lama warns talk with China have to show result soon
• Dalai Lama will return to Tibet only without preconditions
• Distroying a natural treasure in the name of progress
• Evangelist missionaries target poor rural youths
• Forum discusses India's position on Tibet
• FOT (NZ) members observation
• I am Very Optimistic
• Karmapa's Tutor Released
• More demolitions planned in Lhasa
• Moscow Bans Dalai Lama Visit
• Nepal keeps a wary eye on Tibet
• Personal Journey
• Press Release, from Gu Chu Som
• Security surrounds visit of Chinese choice of Panchen Lama to Kumbum
• Seeing Lhasa
• Struggle over Tibet's 'Soul boy'
• The Taming of Tibet
• Tibet monks find tourism new form of suppression
• Tibetan place hope on Hu for more relaxed Tibetan policy
• Tibetan water gives China new reason to control Himalayan region
• UNCHR on Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
• UNESCO Urge China to review urban development plan of Lhasa
• Beijing Sends In the Masses to make Tibet more Chinese

News Articles - August 2003 Update

• Chairman's Note
• TYC Dharamsala competation forcuses on presnt Tibet tragedy
• Beijing Arunachal Card
• China releases monk serving seven year's sentence
• China sacks Tibetan tour guides in favour of Chinese graduates
• Dalai Lama Celebration blocked in Nepal
• Expert slam Indian stands on Tibet
• Feasibility study on Brahmaputra power project
• Hillary Clinton talks about Tibet in her memoir
• How do you say Tikkum Olam in Tibetan
• India's Sikkim state lobbies for bus service with China's Tibet
• Interview with Samdong Rinpoche
• Karmapa may get nod to visit Sikkim
• Ngawang Songdrol's talk brings tears in Tibetan eyes
• Nine Tibetans arested in SE Nepal, handed to UNHCR
• Nomads and farmers resettled in enviroment protection drive in Chamdo and Sichuan
• Peruvian first lady call on His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• President asigns Secretary of States to submit Negotiation Report to Congress
• Sikkim will not be an issue in Sino-Indian ties
• Sino-Tibetan Dailogue, talk on tourism
• Statement by Special Envoy Lodi Gyari, Head of delegation sent by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to China
• Success of the Second round of dailogue uncertain
• The Fourth International Conference of Tibet Support Groups
• Tibet Exiles' Journey
• Tibetan History lesson for China
• Tibetans warn of environmental disaster
• Aski Chin for Aranchal

News Articles - June 2003 Update

• Chairman's Note
• When wrathful deities made mountains places of fear
• A Tribute to Martyr now a musical
• An interview with former Tibetan political prisoner Ngawan Songdrolg
• An Interview, option in Exile
• Beijing accuses Washington of using Tibet to meddle in Chinese affairs
• Chadrel Rinpoche Under Houes Arrest
• Chinese Factory used Tibetan Political prisoners for labour
• Chinese Jounnals Dicusses Implication of death Senrences to Tibetan
• Chinese writers question Peaceful Liberation of Tibet
• Dalai Lama Speaks his mind
• Dalai Lama's personal physician dies
• Danish PM Meets His Holiness
• First hand account by Robbie Barnett
• Monk Spread word about Chinese Cruelties in Tibet
• Ngawang Sangdrol statement
• NGO Statement highlight Tibetan political Prisoner
• NGO'S Urge Chinese Government to let Tibetan Delegation to meet the Pachen Lama
• Rebellion and Repression in Tibet
• The inpact on normads settlement in Tibet
• The monk in the Lab
• Tibet issues raised in Parliamnet of Norway and India
• Tibetan Government-in-Exile calls for International help
• Tibetan leader receives standing ovation from 14
• Tibetans lose Nepal as save haven
• Tibet's exiled Premier urges India to help Solve issue with China
• US fails to Repremand China at UN Commission for Human Rights
• US President Bush Reports to Congress on Tibet Negotiations
• 31 May

News Articles - April 2003 Update

• Chairman's Note
• March 10th Statement
• War has started, we can only pray: Dalai Lama
• 79 Congress members sign letter to Hu
• Beijing in talks on Dalai Lama return
• China lets longest female Tibetan prisoner leave for US
• China Releases defiant political prisoner to US
• Dalai Lama warns China Tibetan problem could become insoluble
• EU expresses regrets at the execution in China
• From a Chinese cell, a lama influence remains undimmed
• Full text of His Holiness' statement on Iraq
• Half a Century of Exile cannot crush Tibetan dream
• Hole in the Roof of the World
• Human Rights Group says China Repressive in 2002
• Patrick digs out the real Tibet
• Pogh, Moller to receive the Dalai Lama
• Professor works for Free Tibet
• Speech by Thupten Jigme Nurbu, 10th March 2003
• Switzerland could host dailogue between Tibet and China
• Takna Jigme Sangpo Testify at UN Commission for Human Rights
• TCHRD Human Rights Update
• TCHRD Press Release
• The Dragon in the Indian Ocean
• Tibetan Businessmen arrested in China
• Tibetan Children Art has a strong Appeal
• Tibetan Monk Travels for Peace
• Tibetan Political Prisoner describes abuse in Chinese prison
• Tibetan Share their Pain
• 10th March Statement by Kalon Tripa

News Articles - February 2003 Update

• Chairman's Note
• World Peace possible through Ahimsa - Dalai Lama
• China and Tibet
• China Executes Tibetan for Bomb Attacks
• China will Sooner or Later give autonomy to Tibet say's Dalai Lama
• China's Changing, There is hope for the Tibetans - Dalai Lama
• Chinese Interlectuals petition Chinese Government
• Cold Warrier trespssing on the Roof of the world
• European Parliament Debate on Tibet
• Germany, UK Condemn execution-2 articles
• India in many ways is my first home
• Journey to the Fobidden City
• Kalmykia President visit Dharamsala to meet the Dalai Lama
• Kalon Tripa to call on US special Coordinator for Tibet
• Needs to educate every Tibetan
• No Rule of Law in China - Dalai Lama
• Now or Never MIC Boycott Capaign in India
• Official Says Tibetans running out of Patience
• Press Statement from Dharamsala