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2010-02-04

Obama to meet Dalai Lama despite Chinese warnings (Reuters)
U.S. President Barack Obama still plans to meet the Dalai Lama, the White House said on Tuesday, despite China's warning that such a meeting would hurt ties already strained by U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan.

2010-02-01

China repeats door for talks open, but "no concessions" on sovereignty (Phayul)
Representatives of the Chinese Communist government told envoys of the Dalai Lama that the door for contacts and talks remained open, but no concessions would be made on issues concerning China's control of Tibet, China's state media said.

-> STATEMENT BY SPECIAL ENVOY OF HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA <-

More Detentions in Tibet (RFA)
Two brothers and three monks are reported held in the Chamdo region.
The mother of two Tibetans detained for more than a month by Chinese security forces says she's concerned over the fate of her sons, saying they cannot speak to their family and have yet to be formally charged.

2010-01-28

4 Tibetans sentenced upto 3 years in Sog County (Phayul)
A Chinese court in Sog County, Nagchu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), has sentenced four Tibetans to prison terms upto three years, Ngawang Tharpa, a Tibetan from Nagchu now living here said.

2010-01-25

His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Envoys Leave for China for Ninth Round of Dialogue (Tibet.net)
His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Special Envoy Lodi G. Gyari and Envoy Kelsang Gyaltsen will arrive in China tomorrow for discussions with the representatives of the Chinese leadership. This is the ninth round of dialogue. The Envoys are visiting China after a gap of 15 months in the process that began in 2002.

> Dalai Lama's envoys to arrive in China tomorrow for ninth round of talks (Phayul)
> Tibet envoys leave for fresh talks with China (The Washington Post)

2010-01-19

Nepal hands over detained Tibetans to UN: report (Phayul)
Ten Tibetans arrested in Nepal after escaping Chinese-occupied Tibet have been handed over to the United Nations and not deported back to Tibet, media reports said Monday.

Nepal police arrest Tibetans for illegal entry (AFP)
Nepalese police said on Sunday they have arrested a group of Tibetans for crossing the border into the Himalayan nation illegally. "Eight Tibetan men and two women were arrested at Lamabagar village near the border on Saturday night," police officer Surya Narayan Shrestha told AFP from Dolakha district, 90 kilometres (56 miles) northeast of Kathmandu.

2010-01-15

China appoints ex-soldier as Tibet governor (BBC)
China has chosen a former soldier as the new governor of Tibet after the previous one resigned unexpectedly.

Germany urges China to respect human rights (Reuters)
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle urged China to show more respect for human rights on Friday but said differences of opinion on this issue should not hinder trade ties between the world's two biggest exporters.

2010-01-14

Follow the Law, China Tells Internet Companies (NYT)
Two days after Google announced that it would quit China unless the nation’s censors eased their grip, the Chinese government offered an indirect but unambiguous response: Companies that do business in China must follow the laws of the land.

Google 'may pull out of China after Gmail cyber attack' (BBC)
Internet giant Google has said it may end its operations in China following a "sophisticated and targeted" cyber attack originating from the country.

2010-01-12

Tibet governor tenders resignation at policy meeting (Reuters)
The governor of Tibet has tendered his resignation, Chinese state-owned media said on Tuesday, as Beijing convened a meeting to spur economic growth and quell dissatisfaction in the region.

China and Tibet Skirmish at a Film Festival (NYT)
China formally told the festival this week that two Chinese films were being withdrawn from its program in protest of the scheduled screening of a documentary about Tibet and the Dalai Lama. While Chinese officials told the festival's director that the filmmakers themselves had decided to withdraw their state-financed works, many China experts believe that it is the state sending a message, rather than the individuals.

2010-01-06

China Jails Tibetan Filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen for 6 Years (Tibet.net)
Dhondup Wangchen, the Tibetan filmmaker who was arrested by the Chinese government for documenting the current situation in Tibet and Tibetan people's aspiration for return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet, has been sentenced to six years in prison, according to information received by the Central Tibetan Administration.

2010-01-05

2 Tibetan nuns sentenced upto 3 years' imprisonment (Phayul)
A Chinese court had sentenced two Tibetan nuns upto three years in prison on November 17, 2009, reported Voice of Tibet radio service.

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Facts about Tibet

Tibet lies at the centre of Asia, with an area of 2.5 million square kilometres (approximately 1 million square miles).

Despite over 50 years of Chinese occupation of Tibet, the Tibetan people refuse to be conquered and subjugated by China.

The Tibetan Plateau is the highest and biggest plateau in the world, so Tibet is referred to as “the roof of the world”.

For Tibetans, the term Tibet means the 3 provinces of U'Tsang, Kham and Amdo, the area traditionally known as Tibet before China's invasion.

The English word Tibet is derived from the Arabic word Tubbat. This word is in turn derived via Persian from the Turkic word Tobad, meaning ‘the heights’.

Tibet was occupied by China in 1949, and the Dalai Lama fled into exile in India in 1959.

Hundreds of thousands of Tibetans have died as a direct result of Chinese occupation since 1949.

There are six million Tibetans in Tibet and roughly 150,000 Tibetans in exile in India and other countries.

Tibetans consider the Dalai Lama to be the temporal as well as spiritual leader of Tibet.

Thousands of Tibetans cross the mighty Himalaya on foot every year into exile, risking death, injuries and arrest.

Most Tibetans are Buddhist, but there are Muslims, Christians and practitioners of Bon, the indigenous religion of Tibet.

In 1948 Tibetan government representatives traveled to the US, UK and France on Tibetan government issued passports.

The exiled Tibetan people elected their first Prime Minister in 2000

In 2008, Tibetans took part in more than 130 separate peaceful protests against the Chinese government across the Tibetan Plateau.

Displaying a photograph of the Dalai Lama in Tibet can result in arrest.

In 1995 the Chinese government abducted the 6 year old Panchen Lama, one of Tibet's most important spiritual leaders. He is still missing.

The longest epic poem in the world is the story of a legendary Tibetan king, Gesar of Ling.

The Tibetan Plateau is the Earth's "Third Pole," providing life-sustaining waters for and regulating weather across south and east Asia.

March 10 is Tibetan National Uprising day. It marks the massive uprising in Tibet in 1959 that led to the escape of the Dalai Lama into exile.

Yak is a Tibetan term for the male of the species. Its female counterpart is called Dri.

Tibetans are denied many of the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including the right to self- determination, freedom of speech and religion.

Untll 1949 Tibet had its own government that managed its own domestic and foreign affairs; Tibet had its own national flag and its own currency.

According to Amnesty International more than 1,000 Tibetans were unaccounted for after the protests of 2008.

In the Tibetan Lunar Calendar, the year 2009 corresponds to the year 2136, the Year of the Earth Ox.

Prior to the uprisings of 2008, the last major protests by Tibetans against China's occupation of Tibet took place in 1989, when martial law was declared.