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Tibetan Graduates Stage Rare Public Protest Print E-mail

Hundreds of Tibetan graduates have staged a rare public protest in the Tibetan regional capital, Lhasa, over alleged discrimination by Chinese authorities in hiring for civil service jobs, Radio Free Asia reports.
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Tibet Features in 2006 National Rock Eisteddfod Print E-mail

Smith’s Hill High School has won second place in the 2006 National Rock Eisteddfod Challenge with a “moving performance about the plight of the Tibetan people and the teachings of peace offered by the Dalai Lama”.
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Tibetan Children In Chinese Custody After Shooting At Nangpa La Pass Print E-mail

At least ten young children from the group of Tibetans who came under fire near the Tibetan border with Nepal on September 30 have been taken into Chinese custody, according to new eyewitness accounts from climbers on nearby Mount Cho Oyu.

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China Is Not Just Rising, But Also Changing Print E-mail
Australian academic Ross Terrill offers a sobering view in the New York Times on the rise of China to global pre- eminence: “China is more brittle than it looks from the superb restaurants overlooking the Shanghai Bund. Scores of new skyscrapers in Shanghai are half-empty. The government seldom allocates capital to private, commercially rational projects. Banks extend 65 percent of their loans to state-owned firms that produce only 25 percent of the national output. State subsidies make it hard to measure the returns on capital.”

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Tibetan Monk Stages Demonstration in Lhasa Barkhor Print E-mail

According to confirmed information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (www.tchrd.org), a lone 23-year-old Tibetan monk staged a short demonstration calling for freedom in Tibet on 3 September 2006 at the busy Barkhor in Lhasa.
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