From Business Week: A vast security network and compliant multinationals keep the mainland’s Net under Beijing’s thumb. But technology may foil the censors yet… Skype had a dilemma. The Internet telephony and messaging service wanted to enter China with TOM Online, a Beijing company controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing. Li’s people told their […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor, an update on the Tibetan refugees who were fired on by Chinese guards while escaping to Nepal: Kelsang Namtso had become a Buddhist nun just last year, at the tender age of 16. Her friend, Dolma Palkyi, 16, wanted to go to India, and meet the Dalai Lama, the exiled […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: Authorities in the Tibetan region of Karze in China’s southwestern Sichuan province have arrested a 22-year-old monk as part of a broader crackdown on anti-Chinese sentiment, making him the eighth Buddhist monk arrested or detained there this year, Tibetan sources said. Lobsang Palden, a monk at Karze monastery, was detained Aug. […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: When the first cracks appeared in the concrete base and bridges of the Qinghai Tibet railway, just weeks after the carefully staged, triumphal opening on July 1 (the 85th birthday of the Chinese Communist party), they were not the only sign that all is not well with China’s policies in Tibet. The […]
Read MoreFrom AP via the New York Times: Talks between China and envoys of the Dalai Lama have made “no substantial progress,” and the exiled Tibetan leader threatens China’s unity and security, Tibet’s official leader charged Tuesday. Champa Phuntsok, the Beijing-appointed chairman of the Tibetan government, blamed the Dalai Lama for the lack of success in […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Naydup Gyatse, chief of this settlement on the grasslands of the high Tibetan plain, does not know the name of China’s president. Nor does he want to. On the map, this land is part of China’s Sichuan province. But to the 300 people who live here, it is part of greater […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: Chinese authorities have detained five Tibetans for allegedly handing out leaflets promoting Tibetan independence, sources have told RFA’s Tibetan service. Sources in the region identified the five as Kayi Doega, who was previously jailed for offering prayers for Tibet’s exiled leader, the Dalai Lama; his eldest daughter Yiga, a former nun; […]
Read MoreFrom the Radio Free Asia (link): Chinese authorities in the Amdo Tibetan region of northwest China have ordered Tibetan broadcasters to add fur trimmings to their traditional clothing, in an apparent jab at an anti-fur movement inspired by Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Che Xizhen, head of the Qinghai provincial propaganda department, and […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times (link): China condemned exiled Tibetans and international human rights watchdogs on Friday for calling a Tibetan youth the world’s youngest political prisoner, saying their aim is to push for independence for the Himalayan region. The whereabouts of Gendun Choekyi Nyima, 17, who pro-Tibet groups say has been under house arrest […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC News (link): Many Tibetans believe that only the Dalai Lama can save Tibet from extinction. But even a Dalai Lama is mortal. And they are deeply anxious about what will happen when the present one dies. For Tibetans, he is not just a Buddhist monk, a god and a king – the […]
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