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  By Allen Carlson March 29, 2013 Beijing should give consideration to re-starting a process of engaging the Dalai Lama in dialogue, one that might even result in his return to Tibet. March 10th, the anniversary of the uprising that led to the Dalai Lama’s flight from Tibet in 1959, …

by Sophie Richardson How badly does the Chinese government really want to stop Tibetan self-immolations? A campaigner suggests that the rhetoric from Beijing does not match the reality of draconian policy programmes To hear senior Chinese officials speak of “innocents” who died in flames, you might think the government is …

Pico Iyer The Cairo Review of Global Affairs February 10, 2013 http://www.aucegypt.edu/gapp/cairoreview/Pages/articleDetails.aspx?aid=299 China needs Japan, Japan needs China,” the 14th Dalai Lama declared, with immovable conviction, as I listened to him in a sunlit conference room in Yokohama last November, a great Ferris wheel turning outside and a jungle of high-rising …

For Immediate Release | February 2, 2013 2:01 pm Contact: Mr. Dhundup Gyalpo Mobile: +91 98057-88175 Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay releases the first publication of the Tibet Policy Institute on the fundamental reasons for the increasing number of self-immolations in Tibet. Dharamsala, 28th January, 2013:   This white paper examines the …

For Immediate Press Release 24 January 2013 Source  tibet.net With profound grief, I report that the number of Tibetans who have set themselves on fire to protest against repression in Tibet is now reaching 100. In 2012 alone, 83 Tibetans self-immolated, and twenty-eight of these occurred within the single month …

  By GILLIAN WONG Associated Press BEIJING — Beijing-based artist Liu Yi is working on a series of black-and-white portraits he knows will never be shown in a Chinese gallery. His varied subjects – men and women, young and old, smiling and pensive – have one thing in common: They …