A month-long special exhibition on the culture, religion, life and political system of Tibetans living in exile was inaugurated in Taipei yesterday. The exhibition commemorates the 50th anniversary of the flight of the Dalai Lama and tens of thousands of
The Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Alliance Francaise, Bangalore Film Society, Charter for Human Responsibilities and Students for A Free Tibet are presenting the Tibetan Film Festival 2009 on July 4 and ...
From AP: Air China will begin offering direct flights from Beijing to Tibet this month, shaving two hours off the current travel time in a bid to boost tourism, state media said Wednesday. The official Xinhua News Agency said the new service to Tibet's capital of Lhasa will depart Beijing daily from July 10. Currently, all flights to Lhasa are routed through Chengdu, the capital of the southwestern...
NEW DELHI: The Outreach Programme at Jamia Millia Islamia and Tibet House will organise a tree plantation ceremony and inter-faith prayers this coming Monday to mark the 74th birthday of the Dalai Lama. The event will be held at ...
Lhadon Tethong, executive director of Students for a Free Tibet, recently said: "The Dalai Lama equals non-violence, and without him there would be violence." In Beijing, Chinese writer Wang Lixiong agreed: "If ... the Dalai Lama...
High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser originally written for Radio Free Asia and posted on her blog on June 8th 2009 . Since the protests in Tibet that started last year in March, some Chinese lawyers have emerged publicly in support of Tibetans. As Woeser has written below, high-profile cases such as the case of Phurbu Tsering Rinpoche in Kham and of Labrang monk Lama Jigme have...
LONDON, 25th June- On April 8th, 2009 the Chinese government sentenced Lobsang Gyaltsen and Loyak to death for their alleged involvement in the March 2008 protests in Lhasa, Tibet. A number of other Tibetans have also received harsh prison sentences, including: Tenzin Phuntsok and Kangtsuk (sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve), Dawa Sangpo (life imprisonment), and three Tibetan women in their...
Three years ago, Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche was elected with more than 90% of the votes as the Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government-in-exile in Dharamsala.
Tibetans and supporters held two protests in Vancouver this past week; Saturday, June 20th in front in downtown Vancouver, and then again on Wednesday June 24th outside the Metropolitan Hotel where Continental Minerals held their annual general meeting. SFT Canada's National Director, Tsering Lama, was able to enter the AGM and confront Continental Minerals' executives, including CEO David Copeland,...
It was a rainy Vancouver day, but Tibetans and supporters came out to hold a second protest on Wednesday June 24th, outside the Metropolitan Hotel where the Continental Minerals AGM took place, to protest the company mining in Tibet. Earlier that morning, Tsering Lama, SFT Canada National Director, went head-to-head with Continental Minerals’ VP Dickson [...]
It was a rainy Vancouver day, but Tibetans and supporters organized by SFT and CTC came out to hold a second protest on Wednesday June 24th, outside the Metropolitan Hotel where the Continental Minerals AGM took place, to protest the company mining in Tibet. Earlier that morning, Tsering Lama, SFT Canada National Director, went head-to-head [...]
SFT Ottawa “welcomed” Chinese foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on June 22nd as he arrived in Ottawa to meet with the Canadian Foreign Minister, Lawrence Cannon. Below is a report from SFT Ottawa’s Wangdu Duntak and photos from Lodoe Laura. We started our protest against the arrival of foreign minister Yang Jiechi at 5:30 pm. There [...]
All Tibetans and Tibet Supporters are called upon to sign an important petition demanding the release of Liu Xiaobo who was formally arrested by the Chinese government on 23rd June 2009. In 1996, Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to three years in labour camp for writing a joint letter addressed to China’s President Jiang Zemin supporting Tibetan self-determination and also calling for dialogue with...
Brian Conley, creator of the well-known videoblog, Alive in Baghdad, and one of the ‘Beijing 6‘ citizens journalist detained this summer in Beijing for capturing images and videos of pro-Tibet actions during the Olympics, was interviewed for PBS Idea Lab about his incredibly important new project Alive in Tehran. During his interview, Brian gave the following [...]
Footage from HDI/Continental Minerals Shareholders’ meeting in Vancouver, Canada on June 24th. Tibetans and their supporters protested at the meeting to intenisfy pressure on the company to Stop Mining Tibet.
Yoga for Stress Relief With The Dalai Lama Over the centuries, yoga practitioners have discovered the secret to achieving optimal health, vitality and happiness. For the first time, this path to living a longe...
Sultry actress Pamela Anderson reveals he is planning to give U.S. president elect Barack Obama a book of essays, titled “One Can Make A Difference.” it is a book that features thoughts, stories & musings from notable names, like Sir Paul McCartney, Willie Nelson, His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Petra Nemcova, Moby, & Kevin Bacon.
The Farce of the Seventeen Point Agreement Signed without authorization, under duress and threat of total military invasion, the Seventeen-Point Agreement can hardly be considered a true "agreement," as mutual consent was absent from its signing. The consent on the part of the Tibetan representatives was clearly the result of coercion and therefore the agreement is invalid.