President of Kalmykia Visits Dharamsala

The president of Kalmykia Republic in the Russian Federation, Kirsan Nikolayevich llyumzhinov, is on a two day visit to Dharamsala, the headquarters of the Central Tibetan Administration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

China Pushing Ahead With Railway to Tibet

Basang has never laid eyes on a train — unless you count the ones he’s seen in movies or on the old television shows that feed his curiosity about the world beyond the Tibetan plateau.

China Pushing Ahead With Railway to Tibet

A Railway Bridge is seen under construction over Lhasa River Monday, Aug. 25, 2003 in Lhasa, Tibet, far west of China. The bridge will be completed in 2005. Photo by Eugene Hoshiko

Dalai Lama says China contacts must yield results

The Dalai Lama said talks with China over greater autonomy for Tibet must yield results in the next two or three years, or he could no longer justify his conciliatory approach to youths clamouring for independence.

Dalai Lama must accept conditions for return: China

The Dalai Lama might return to Tibet but only as a Chinese citizen and he must renounce all notions of Tibetan independence so that negotiations with Beijing could progress, Tibet’s new Governor said.

Indian Parliamentary Forum for Tibet meets Indian PM

The conveners of the All Party Indian Parliamentary Forum for Tibet (APIPFT) Shri Basishtha Narain Singh (Rajya Sabha, Samata Party), Shri Kharabela Swain (Lok Sabha, BJP) and Shri P T Gyamtso (Rajya Sabha, SDF) called on the Prime Minister of India