63-year-old Tibetan Monk Self-immolates in Sichuan
Citing Tibetan sources, Radio Free Asia reports that a 63-year-old Tibetan monk named Tenga has...
Nov 29, 2017
Citing Tibetan sources, Radio Free Asia reports that a 63-year-old Tibetan monk named Tenga has...
Apr 17, 2017
Citing Radio Free Asia and UK-based advocacy group Free Tibet, the Associated Press reports that a...
Dec 9, 2016
A Tibetan man died after self-immolating in a historically Tibetan region of Gansu Province,...
Jun 16, 2014
On Monday, as three people in Xinjiang were sentenced to death in connection with a jeep attack at...
Feb 6, 2014
Radio Free Asia reports that a Tibetan man in northwestern Qinghai province self-immolated...
Dec 17, 2013
For BBC, Clarissa Sebag Montefiore writes about how the Chinese government’s depictions of...
May 10, 2011
While uprisings in the Middle East were an immediate trigger, roots of the current crackdown in China can also be seen further back, in the unrest in Tibet in 2008 and Xinjiang in 2009. At the Financial Times, Jamil Anderlini...
Mar 16, 2009
From Der Spiegel: Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of the 1959 revolt in Tibet against China and the Dalai Lama’s flight from the country. Despite decades of repression, the Tibetans living under Chinese control still...
Jun 16, 2008
Wang Xianchang (王憲棠) writes an interesting essay (in Chinese) on the Hong Kong Ming Pao Daily, relating two major news events: Tibet unrest and the Wenchuan earthquake. Roland Soong translated the essay on his EastSouthWestNorth...
Apr 15, 2008
Simon Montlake recaps recent Dalai-Lama related news in the Christian Science Monitor: The Dalai Lama’s high-profile visit is stirring pro- and anti-China sentiment in the US as the White House prepares to host the exiled...
Apr 15, 2008
In the latest Internet video — this time a musical one — criticizing Western media’s biased coverage of recent unrest in Tibet, Mu Rongxuan takes on CNN. Mu opens the video by singing, “That day on the...