[REUTERS] Beijing, Sep 9: Chinese President Xi Jinping will make his first visit to India as head of state on a regional visit starting this week which will also take in Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Tajikistan, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
Read more[PTI] BEIJING, Sep 3: In a major political gesture, Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to announce the opening of a new safe route for Indian pilgrims visiting Kailash and Mansarovar in Tibet via Sikkim during his forthcoming visit to India.
Read more[AFP] CAPE TOWN, Sep 4: South Africa has refused to grant a visa for the Dalai Lama to attend the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Cape Town next month, his representative said Thursday.
Read moreNaresh K Thakur, Hindustan Times|September 3, 2014
In blatant attack on China, Sikyong (Tibetan Prime Minister-in- exile) Lobsang Sangay on Tuesday said that the Communist government was concealing the reality of ongoing political repression in Tibet through a pre-meditated propaganda, painting an extremely pleasant and peaceful picture of Tibet.
Read moreSaibal Dasgupta, TNN|August 30, 2014
BEIJING: Chinese president Xi Jinping is expected to question the existence of the Tibetan government in exile in Dharamshala during his India visit in September, a Chinese expert told TOI.
Read more[Reuters] BEIJING, Aug 29: Three Tibetans in China have pleaded guilty to involvement in the death of a prominent religious leader and two other people, a lawyer representing the victims’ families said on Friday, in Tibet’s most closely watched murder case in decades.
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[dalailama.com] Hamburg, Germany, 24 August 2014 – Emerging from his hotel into the sunlight falling through the trees, His Holiness the Dalai Lama took time to greet Tibetans and other well-wishers who had gathered to express their respect and support.
Read more[The New Indian Express] NEW DELHI, Aug 19: A nurse, 25, who hails from Tibet, was gangraped on Independence Day night, inside a top hotel here by two members of the hotel director’s personal staff, police said. The rape survivor was tending to the ailing wife of one of the directors of The Oberoi Hotel.
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By William Wan and Xu Yangjingjing, The Washington Post|August 16, 2014
During their controversial six-decade-rule of Tibet, China’s Communist Party leaders have been accused by human rights groups of trying to tame the restive region by imprisoning Tibetan political prisoners, keeping in exile their leader the Dalai Lama and repressing Tibetan religion and culture.
Read moreJohn 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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