The music does matter, but so does the rest
As the Beastie Boys drift towards middle age, Adam Yauch tells the ‘Taipei Times’ why they’re bringing the Tibet cause to Taiwan, and even a little bit about the music. I call up the Tokyo hotel, give the desk clerk the correct alias
The music does matter, but so does the rest
The Beastie Boys (Photo: TRA)
‘Tibet Weeks’ Welcomes Gyatso
For the past two weeks, Cornell’s East Asia Program has been collaborating with Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) in the yearly “Ithaca-Cornell Tibet Weeks” event. The highlight of this week occurred Wednesday evening at Anabel Taylor Hall as world-renowned Tibetan monk Palden Gyatso
Nobel laureates tell United States: Now win the peace
F W DE KLERK – Former president of South Africa, co-recipient with Nelson Mandela of the Nobel peace prize in 1993. “Right from the beginning I took the view that the international community needs to take strong action against the Saddam Husseins of this world
Fighting for human rights
A group of 14 Norwell High School students, accompanied by their principal Stephen Mahoney, were among more than 1,000 young activists to attend a demonstration in New York City Monday to protest human rights abuses.
Fighting for human rights
Norwell High School student activists hold up a Tibetan Flag at a Human Rights rally on Monday in New York City.
Tibetan Photo Project keeps gaining momentum
The Tibetan Photo Project started during the 2000 Mendocino Music Festival when Joe Mickey, a professional photographer, teacher and sports editor for The Mendocino Beacon and the Advocate-News, was introduced to a sponsorship program for monks living in exile in southern India.
Tibetan Photo Project keeps gaining momentum
A Tibetan monk wore a dust mask during a pilgrimage to Bodh Gaya, the site of the Buddha’s enlightenment in India. The Tibetan Photo Project offers the first photographs created by Tibetans of their culture endangered by 52 years of brutal rule by the Chinese government. Tenzin Wangden Andrugtsang photo.
New Chinese tour guides assigned to fight “splittism” in Tibet
One hundred tour guides from different Chinese provinces have been assigned to Tibet each year for the next decade, representing a further threat to the livelihoods of Tibetan guides, who have been under increasing political pressure for several years.