Sunday, May 4, 2008 (Dharamsala)
The talks between Dalai Lama’s envoys and Chinese officials in Shenzen have ended abruptly.
However, both sides have agreed to hold further talks following one day of meetings here Sunday, although no date was announced, China’s official mouthpiece “Xinhua news agency” reported.
Sunday May 4, 2008 Dharamsala: Tibetan government-in-exile expressed optimism about upcoming talks with Chinese officials, but cautioned Saturday that too much should not be expected from the first meeting between the two sides since violent anti-government protests erupted in Tibet.
Friday, 2 May 2008 Dharamshala: The Tibetan Solidarity Committee (TSC) on Thursday strongly condemned the Lhasa Intermediate People’s court’s recent verdict on sentencing 30 Tibetans from three to life-term in jail, fearing it could also include execution of some Tibetans in the days to come.
KATMANDU: More than 100 Tibetan exiles, mostly young monks and nuns, were detained Friday at a pro-Tibet protest in front of a Chinese embassy building in the Nepalese capital, police said.
April 30th, 2008 International Campaign for Tibet
Photo: Military camp in Lhasa, April 2008.
The Chinese authorities have announced the first sentences of Tibetans, ranging from three years to life, since the protests and unrest began on the Tibetan plateau on March 10. Thirty sentences were handed down yesterday in connection with the riots in Lhasa […]
Thursday, 1 May 2008, 3:05 p.m.
Dharamshala: Time magazine has listed His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, among the world’s 100 most influential people, under the category of influential leaders and revolutionaries.
April 30, 2008 Kathmandu Nepal
Concerned over China’s increasingly erratic and violent behavior, Tibetans in Nepal delivered masses of flowers to the Chinese Consulate in Khatmandu, along with stacks of “Get Well Soon” cards. One hundred and eighteen people were arrested including the President of Regional Tibetan Youth Congress, Nepal.
HONG KONG, China (CNN) — The protest-plagued Olympic torch relay arrived in Hong Kong Wednesday, its first stop on Chinese soil.
Authorities in Hong Kong deported at least seven activists before the flame’s arrival and braced for possible protests and the arrival of more activists prior to the official torch run on Friday.
(RTTNews) - Japan’s Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura repeated calls for China to raise transparency over Tibet, saying it was difficult to believe that no human rights suppression was there, AFP reported on Sunday.
Sunday, April 27, 2008 By KWANG-TAE KIM Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea, April 27 - A North Korean defector tried to set himself on fire to halt the Olympic torch relay through Seoul, while thousands of police guarded the flame Sunday from protesters blasting China’s treatment of North Korean refugees.