44 Dead in Tour Bus Crash in Tibet
[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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45th TYC Working Committee Meeting kicks off in Gangtok
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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China allows banned Tibetan lama to visit his monastery
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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Illegal coal mine encroaching on nature reserve in north-west China
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
Read moreTerror fear? China city bans beards, veils in buses
[TNN] BEIJING, Aug 7: In perhaps first such instance in China, a city in the country’s restive Xinjiang region has banned beards and burka or veils worn by Muslim women within days of a major terrorist attack and subsequent police action that killed nearly 100 people in the bordering Kashgar area of the same province.
Read moreEight Tibetans sentenced up to 9 years’ imprisonment
DHARAMSALA, Aug 7: Chinese authorities in eastern Tibet have sentenced eight Tibetans up to 9 years of imprisonment over their alleged involvement in the explosion of a police station in 2012, reports Tibet.net, the exile Tibetan administration’s official website.
Read moreTibetan group seeks release of ‘abetting’ accused
[TNN] SHIMLA, Aug 6: International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), a Tibet advocacy group based in the US, has released a special report titled “Acts of significant evil: The criminalisation of Tibetan self-immolations,” documenting the wave of self-immolations in Tibet and the intensified response of the Chinese government.
Read moreVisit to Dalai Lama’s abode is tourists’ nightmare
Vishal Gulati, IANS|August 5, 2014
MCLEOD GANJ: The road to Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama’s abode passes through hell. Foreigners and domestic tourists coming to this north Indian hill town, in the state of Himachal Pradesh, for an audience with the Nobel Peace Prize laureate find the road disappearing under the wheels of the vehicle they are travelling in.
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At least 398 people dead as 6.5 magnitude quake hits China
DHARAMSALA, Aug 5: At least 398 people have been killed and more than 1800 injured after a powerful earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale jolted south-west China’s Yunnan province.
Read moreIt’s in Chinese interest to give Tibetans more autonomy: Lobsang Sangay (IANS Interview)
Vishal Gulati, IANS|August 4, 2014
DHARAMSALA, Aug 4: Tibetan Prime Minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay says the people in Tibet will be happy if they are given more autonomy by China “within the Chinese constitution”.
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