REUTERS:China approves ‘modern redesign’ of Tibetan capital

BEIJING, March 17 — China has approved a “modern redesign” of Tibet’s remote and mountainous capital Lhasa, state media said today, including a limit on its downtown population. Read more>>

Monks taken for ‘re-education’ before Tibet uprising anniversary

Police will take away more than 100 monks for political re-education today on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising that led to the flight of the Dalai Lama. Read more>>

50 Years after revolt, clampdown on Tibetans

MAQU, China, March 5 – Enraged nomads rampaged through this windswept town on the Tibetan plateau a year ago this month, storming a Chinese police compound, setting fire to squad cars and forcing police officers to flee.

Pop politics at its best

Manjit Bhatia Aug 25,08 from Malayisakini From my hotel room window, China’s new national Olympics stadium is shrouded in a thick, gray mist. Visibility is approaching near hopelessness. Mr Magoo would’ve had no chance. Only it isn’t mist.   It’s smog. Pollution. The air outside, from which I had just escaped for the sanctuary of [...]

Re-strategising democracy promotion in China

James Gomez | Aug 19, 08 11:27am from:Malaysiakini The different China-related democracy issues need to be integrated through a broad overarching theme and coordinated from closer in Asia. This was the latent international strategy that emerged from the 3rd International Conference on Global Support for Democratisation in China and Asia (GSDCA) which was held on [...]

Talking With the Dalai Lama

by Lingxi Kong Posted July 30, 2008    Ten students are gathered round a table in a seminar room at Columbia University discussing whether greeting scarves should be presented with one hand or two. Six of the students in the group, including me, are Chinese. We are getting a crash course in basic Tibetan etiquette [...]

Tibet, Human Rights and the Beijing Olympics

Between a Rock and a Hard Place By Richard Baum When the 2008 Summer Olympics were awarded to Beijing in July 2001, expectations were high that China’s desire to showcase the Beijing Games, amplified by the bright light of international scrutiny, would push the country toward political liberalization, media freedom and respect for human rights. [...]

FREE TIBET: Boycott Olympic Games in Beijing 2008

Tibet The Story Of A Tragedy

Part 2 – Olympic Games China Burma Tibet Darfur…in Chains

Part 2 – Olympic Games China Burma Tibet Darfur…in Chains

Olympic Games China Burma Tibet Darfur…in Chains. Video Part 1 -

Olympic Games China Burma Tibet Darfur…in Chains. Video Part 1

Letter to Hu Jintao

from:one-just-world.blogspot.com Mr. President Let me take you on a mental journey, if you dare. Instead of being a member of the ruling, and by numbers, the overwhelmingly largest and domineering creed, imagine now that you are a member of a society, race and country that is uniquely distinct and different from all the surrounding peoples [...]

Tibet like Burma

Tibet like Burma: the same abuse of power, the same suppression of human, civil and religious rights. In Tibet as well as in Burma mass protests have been led by Buddhist monks melting the religious and political parts of the society asking for a different regime. Records of 1988 demonstrations in Tibet show violence everywhere, [...]

As Olympics Approach, Oppressive Grip Tightens

  By Ally Wang, Mimi Li, and Shaoshao Chen Jul 09,2008 NEW YORK—In less than 30 days, Beijing will kick off its opening ceremonies for the 2008 Olympics. While China prepares for its appearance on the world’s center stage, the Tibetans, Uighurs, Falun Gong practitioners, and political dissidents of China will undoubtedly suffer 30 days [...]