No improvement inside Tibet: Dalai Lama

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama today regretted that there was no improvement in conditions inside Tibet despite his renewing direct contact with the Chinese government.

No change in policy on Dalai Lama: India

India has said there is no change in its policy towards the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader who runs a government in exile in Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh. He now seeks greater autonomy for the Himalayan region.

Tibetans hold protest

Tibetan students staged a protest yesterday on the eve of a five-day visit to India by the head of China’s nominal lower house. Jia Qinglin, chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference

From cleaning lady to leading lady

Starving, freezing and bleeding, Soname Yangchen lay down in the mountains to die. Without fear the teenager embraced her fate: to freeze to death or be eaten by the wild animals of the Himalayas.

Tibet reminds us of our own past

Economic sanctions can help topple unjust regimes. In South Africa, we have direct experience of this. This makes it all the more ironic when South African companies invest in countries whose human rights records leave much to be desired or that are occupied by invaders.