Tibetan Independence Movement

30 Apr 2012

He is the most protected and the most mysterious person in China. Perhaps we should not even address him as a 'person', because to many he is more than that.

Beijing won't let up on the dalai lama

8 Dec 2011

A senior Communist Party official vowed Beijing would continue its 'vigorous struggle' against the Dalai Lama, state media said yesterday.

Dalai Lama attacked over stand on fiery protests

26 Nov 2011

The mainland's top official newspaper lambasted the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, yesterday for condoning a spate of self-immolations by his followers to protest against Chinese...

The road to enlightenment

20 Nov 2011

When her best friend died from leukaemia last year, Ran Jing made a promise to herself; she would travel to Tibet as soon as she graduated from high school. Her classmate had been a Buddhist,...

Dalai Lama retirement 'a wave in a swim pool'

20 May 2011

A top Tibetan official said yesterday that the Dalai Lama's decision to give up his political power would have only limited effects on the region, adding that the Tibetan spiritual leader's...

Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Howard Winn

HSBC suffers the Taibbi treatment in Rolling Stone

Shirley Yam

How tycoons' IPO 'losses' may hide profits at herd's expense

Cadres learn to become spin doctors to handle foreign media in Tibet

Fifty cadres from ethnic Tibetan areas are being trained as foreign propaganda specialists in an unprecedented three-month programme that is part of China's international public relations campaign...

Escape from the Land of Snows

Escape from the Land of Snows
by Stephan Talty
Crown Publishers HK$208

Two of the 20th century's most extreme regimes faced each other across the barricades...

Dalai Lama chats with mainland Twitter users

Beijing should learn from former leader Hu Yaobang's fact-based work style to solve problems in Tibet and misunderstandings between Tibetans and Han Chinese, the Dalai Lama told an online chat...

Final say on next Dalai Lama is ours, Beijing says

Beijing has indicated that it will not negotiate the selection of a successor to the ageing Dalai Lama with him, insisting that it has the final decision on the reincarnated successors to the...

Protesters greet Dalai Lama as he arrives at Taipei hotel

The Dalai Lama yesterday completed his mission to comfort typhoon victims in southern Taiwan and checked in at a Taipei hotel, where he was confronted by about 200 pro-unification protesters who...

HK activists to set up Tibetan association

Several activists from the fringe of Hong Kong's pan-democratic camp are planning to set up a friendship group to promote 'Tibetan culture' following their meeting with the Dalai Lama.