John Sudworth, BBC | August 15, 2014
The former mayor of Christchurch, New Zealand, Sir Bob Parker, says he is not happy to be associated with the document which China is calling the ‘Lhasa Consensus.’
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DHARAMSALA, Aug 15: A group of Tibetan residents of New York staged a protest in front of the United Nations on Aug 14 demanding the world organization to speak on Tibet and condemn China on the recent shooting incident in eastern Tibet where Chinese police opened fire on a crowd of Tibetan protesters, injuring at least ten Tibetans.
Read moreTsering Woeser, The New York Times | August 14, 2014 CHENGDU, China — In 1981, the year I graduated from
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DHARAMSALA, Aug 14: China’s much criticized development policy in Tibet was praised profusely by oversees delegates at a two-day symposium held from August 12 to 13 in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet.
Read more[Reuters] BEIJING, Aug 14: Chinese police have opened fire on Tibetan demonstrators in southwestern China, wounding 10 people, after the Tibetans protested against the detention of a respected village leader, a Tibetan rights group said.
Read moreDHARAMSALA, Aug 13: A former Tibetan political prisoner who arrived in India recently has smuggled a list of 45 Tibetans who were arrested during and after the 2008 Tibetan Uprising.
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[The New York Times] BEIJING, Aug 10: A tour bus careened off a highway in Tibet in a crash that killed 44 people and injured 11, China’s state news media reported on Sunday.
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DHARAMSALA, Aug 12: Over a hundred participants from Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) Regional Chapters in India, Nepal and Bhutan have gathered in Gangtok, Sikkim for the 45th Tibetan Youth Congress Working Committee Meeting.
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DHARAMSALA, Aug 11: In an unusual move, a senior Tibetan spiritual teacher who has been sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment and barred from maintaining any contacts with his monastery in connection with the search of the monastery’s spiritual head has been allowed to return to his monastery and conduct teachings.
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Jonathan Kaiman, The Gaurdian|August 7, 2014
Coalfield 14 times the size of the City of London turns alpine meadows into craters in Qinghai, Greenpeace investigation reveals
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