Tibetans challenge China’s future leader during his visit to Los Angeles
Carrying signs and chanting “Tibet will be free,” Tibetans and supporters from San Francisco and Los Angeles trailed China’s future President Xi Jinping at every location he visited during his first official visit to the United States.
‘India will not tolerate China’s interference in internal affairs,’ New Delhi tells Beijing
India has sharply reacted to statements from Beijing opposing the Indian Defence Minister’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh. India asserted that it “will not tolerate external interference in India’s territorial affairs”
Breaking: Self-immolation on the fifth day of Losar, Reports say Tibetan youngster succumbed to injuries
On the fifth day of the Tibetan new year, February 26, a young Tibetan reportedly torched himself to death, calling for the return of the Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama from exile.
Power-play in China by Claude Arpi
WHILE leaving the United States after a five-day tour, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping stated that his visit was a ‘full success’. After the official calls on the US President and other dignitaries, the visit ended in a relaxed way in Hollywood. Further, Xi termed his meetings with President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden as ‘fruitful’.
International media presence in Lhasa worse than Pyongyang, says press freedom group
Reporters Without Borders has expressed “alarm” at the total media blackout imposed by Chinese authorities in Tibet, preventing all media coverage of the ongoing wave of self-immolations and mass demonstrations
13 arrested, one injured in Nepal protests
A group of young Tibetans took out a street protest outside the United Nations office in Nepal’s capital city Kathmandu Friday appealing for intervention in the ongoing crisis in Tibet.