[30. August 2010] Phayul.com

Hundreds of Tibetan delegates from all over the world that are participating in the first Tibetan General Meeting in Bylakuppe, the largest Tibetan settlement in India, voiced their concerns over problems plaguing the people under their purview, and sought solutions to these challenges.

The ongoing meeting saw over 300 Tibetan representatives meet and express their opinions on a wide array of issues, including policy, promotion of democracy and education, sustenance of Tibetan settlements and status of Tibetans living in foreign countries, among others. Read more

[27. August 2010] Phayul.com

Reports of arrests of four Tibetan students in Barkham County on March 17 this year have emerged from Tibet. According to Tsering, a Tibetan monk living here in exile, Chinese government arrested the four Tibetans on charges of instigating students against the government through their magazine Namchak (Thunderbolt). Read more

[24. August 2010] Phayul.com

Three Tibetans have been killed and 30 others severely wounded after Chinese security forces opened fire on unarmed Tibetan petitioners outside a government building in Palyul County, Sichuan Province, on August 18, sources report. Local Tibetans are concerned about the impact of the mining on their lives and have demanded compensation from the government. Read more

UPDATE: [26. Augsut 2010] Radio Free Asia

At least four Tibetans may have been killed in a standoff with police over a planned mine expansion. Police in China’s southwestern Sichuan province have responded with lethal force to a group of Tibetans protesting the expansion of a gold mining operation they say is harming the environment, according to Tibetan sources. Read more

[24. August 2010] Phayul.com

Chinese authorities last month arrested another Tibetan intellectual. Kalsang Tsultrim, known for his widely distributed video testimonial in 2009, was arrested on 7 July in Dzoge County in Sichuan Province, according to the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy. Despite repeated enquiries from his family, no reasons have been given by officials for his arrest. Read more

[18. August 2010] Hindustan Times

While China’s strict measures is leading to a decline in Tibetans escaping to India, there is growing concern over the Nepalese government’s shifting policy towards Tibetan settlers in the Himalayan country. Nepal’s growing proximity with China and the shift in policy is adding to the worries of the Dalai Lama’s Tibetan government-in-exile. Read more

[18. August 2010] Time.com

Weeks after a prominent Tibetan arts dealer was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges his supporters say were trumped up after he crossed powerful local officials, a second Tibetan businessman has been sentenced to life in jail. Dorje Tashi, a property developer and owner of the Yak Hotel in Lhasa, was convicted of funding overseas Tibetan groups, including the office of the Dalai Lama. Read more

[17. August 2010] Radio Free Asia

Chinese authorities in Tibet have restricted the display of photos of the Karmapa Lama, confiscating them from monks and warning drivers not to carry them in their vehicles, according to sources in the region.

The Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism and one of Tibet’s highest-ranking religious figures, escaped from Tibet into India in 2000. He has since established himself in exile, and is considered close to Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. Read more

[15. August 2010] Radio Free Asia

Local people supported a protest by two monks in Lithang, a Tibetan area of Sichuan province, as tensions ran high around the anniversary of an incident at the town’s annual horse festival.

The two monks took to the streets on Thursday carrying the Tibetan national flag and a picture of the Dalai Lama. The monks’ protest occurred close to the three-year anniversary of an incident at the horse festival in August 2007 that sparked a week-long standoff with police. Read more

[12. August 2010] Phayul.com

One of Tibet’s richest businessmen, Dorjee Tashi, a hotelier from Lhasa was sentenced to life imprisonment on June 26 for helping exile groups.This is the latest case in a surprising crackdown on well-known Tibetans once praised by Chinese authorities. Read more

[13. August 2010] Mark MacKinnon, The Globe And Mail

East Riverside Road - better known to locals as Tibetan Street - is in fact a dusty and narrow alleyway across from the main bus station in this ethnically mixed city (Xining) on China’s Tibetan plateau. Lined with Tibetan shops and teahouses, as well as Muslim bakeries and a row of stalls selling fireworks, it’s crowded and chaotic enough that few cars bother trying to enter.

But anxious local authorities watch the fray from above. Hanging at even intervals over the twisting 300-metre length of the road are seven domes containing closed-circuit television cameras - nicknamed “Global Eyes” by the Chinese company that makes them - recording nearly everything that goes on in the bustling alley below. Read full article