WTN for June 2008

• China's Cybersnoops Scour the World - Asia Sentinel
• Shift from feudalism no easy leap - Xinhua
• LVMH Urges Sharon Stone to Clarify China Quake Remark - Bloomberg
• What is Karma? - BBC News
• Stone: China Earthquake 'was karma for Tibet' - Guardian
• EU, China: Honeymoon is Over - Center for Security Studies
• On World Situation, Tibet and Nepal - Mainstream Weekly
• India's Mukherjee to Visit China to Improve Relations (Update1) - Bloomberg
• Film on Dalai Lama Addresses Strategy of Non-violent Action - Williams Lake Tribune
• Director Khashyar Darvich Talks Dalai Lama Documentary - The Nichi Bei Times Weekly
• China: Rights Lawyers Face Disbarment Threats - Human Rights Watch
• Trial Postponed In Greece for French Protesters Who Disrupted Olympic Flame Ceremony - AP
• No Bed of Roses as Actress Adds Voice to Cry for Tibet's Freedom - Canberra Times
• Picture This: a Lost Tibet - The Times
• Utah Immigrant Dreams of a Free Tibet - Deseret News
• All India Tibetan College Students' Mass Movement Gains Momentum - Phayul
• Montrealer Flms Monks' Trek - The Gazette (Montreal, Canada)
• Ogyen Trinley Dorje: the Next Dalai Lama? - TIME
• MP talks Tibet with Dalai Lama - GetReading (UK)
• China fires gunshot on peaceful protester in Kardze - TCHRD
• Buddhist Karmapa Tours U.S. - Seattle Times
• Book Review: The Middle Path - Wall Street Journal
• SPEAKING FREELY: Europe's Asian Love Misplaced - Asia Times
• Exhibit: Tibetan Arms and Armor - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Tibetan Freedom Torch in Indiana - International Tibet Independence Movement
• Suu Kyi symbolises Strength - MeriNews
• Indian Views on Tibet: On History's Plateau - TibetNews
• Down with the Dalai Lama - Guardian
• Who Are the Good guys? - International Herald Tribune
• Sarkozy: France is Watching progress of China-Tibet Talks - Asia Pacific News
• Comment: Calling China to Account - Globe & Mail
• Rights Group Hits Policies of US, China - Boston Globe
• Remembering Tiananmen Square 2008 - OpEdNews (PA, USA)
• 12 monks of Dingri Shelkar Choedhe Monastery Arrested for Opposing the "Patriotic re-education" Campaign - TCHRD
• McDonalds, Facebook least Popular on Brand Tags Website - Asia News International
• Opinion: The truth about Tibet - The Stanford Daily
• Book Review: A Year in Tibet - The Telegraph
• French tour operators say Chinese boycott 'catastrophic' - AFP
• All India Tibetan College Students' Mass Movement Gains Momentum - Phayul
• Hypocrites at Work - The Times of India
• March to Tibet: Presidents of Five Tibetan NGOs Transferred to Jail in Hardwar - Phayul
• A Tibetan Exiles' March on Foot that Began from New Delhi has Reached Bodh Gaya - The Cheers
• Tibetan Monks Linked to Blasts - Radio Free Asia
• Seattleites Get Spiritual Insight:The Karmapa visits - Seattle Times
• Tibet Still Closed to Foreign Press Despite "Unprecedented" Post-quake Openness in Sichuan - Reporters without Borders
• The Dalai Lama's Practical Guide to Happiness - The Times
• Dalai Lama Closes British Visit with Oxford Talk - AFP
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama receives warm welcome in Oxford - Office of Tibet, London
• Dalai Lama Lauds Japan's Concerns Over Tibet - ICT

• Nourishing the Body can Feed the Soul - Boston Globe
• Book Review: Kuff Questions the Nature of Change - Morning News (Arkansas)
• A Sichuan Family and Tibet's Future - New York Times
• Canadian Filmmaker Dodges Indian Police to Rejoin Tibetan March - CanWest
• Tibetan Freedom Torch Riders Present Petition to U.S. Olympic Committee - Phayul
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Advice Concerning Dolgyal (Shugden) - TibetNet
• For Talks to Succeed, China Must Admit to a Tibet Problem - Yale Global
• Dalai Lama Condemns Branding of Muslims as Terrorists - Daily India
• Tibet isn't the Only Captive Nation in Beijing's Empire - Denver Post
• Lesson in Diplomacy from the Dalai Lama - Kent News
• Religious Leaders Denounce Terrorism in all its Forms - Press Trust of India
• India's Religious Tolerance a Role Model for World: Dalai Lama - Press Trust of India
• Unprecedented Security for Dalai Lama's Visit - Sydney Morning Herald

• Beijing Benefits from Basic Instinct - The Standard
• Film Review: The Unwinking Gaze - The Times
• Book Review: Why the Dalai Lama Matters - literati.net
• A Joyride Through the Snow Line - Newind Press
• Insights into Living and Dying - The Hindu
• China: Military Ties with India Improving - The Hindu
• Water, Trade Focus of Pranab's China Visit - DNA India
• Tibetans March in NJ Asian Parade - Phayul
• 'Beijing Olympics to Face Greater Security Challenge' - Reuters
• Panel Discusses Tibet's Quest for Feedom - India Post
• The Tyranny of the Com - sify.com
• Gujjar Stir on, Cops Crack Whip - Times of India
• Dalai Lama is Quietly Changing the World - Deseret News

• Interested in Teachings on Tibetan Buddhism? - Moscow Times
• Opinion: "China: Now stoned by Sharon" - The Jakarta Post
• Movie Review: 'Blindsight' - Los Angeles Times
• Column: Political Implications for Games - Albert Lea Tribune
• China: Free Tiananmen Prisoners Before Olympics - Human Rights Watch
• Stern Rules for Beijing visitors - AP
• Beijing Olympics: Protests Banned but Pets Okay in China - The Telegraph
• Beijing Reminds Foreigners to Behave During Olympics - Reuters
• BJP Plays up China Threat, Accuses Government of Appeasement - ICT by IANS
• Chinese Views on Tibet: "Tibet -- Her Pain, My Shame" - Tibet Custom (UK)
• Himalayan Film Festival Seeks entries for the 5th Festival - Tibet
• Tibetan Students Express Grief Artistically - Phayul
• Tibetan Parliamentary Delegation meet Indian Top Politicians - Tibet Custom
• Tibetans in Australia hold a candlelight vigil for the victims of natural disasters in China and Burma - Phayul
• Global Convention Underscores Impacts of Climate Change in Tibet - DIIR
• His Holiness inaugurates World Conference on Terrorism in New Delhi - Phayul
• Indian supporters Express Concerns over Police Pressure on March to Tibet - TPUM (India)
• "Healing the World with Dharma" - Vikramasila Foundation
• Dalai Lama Says its Time for the World to Address the Root Causes of Terrorism - AP

• Book Review: Social Engineering - Washington Post
• My Turn: China Must Take the Right Steps - Burlington Free Press
• Tibetan Man in Asylum Catch-22 - Rocky Mountain News
• A Buddhist Master Straddles the Taiwan Straits - Asia Sentinel
• Border Row to Top Agenda During Pranab's China Visit - The Statesman (India)
• Pranab to take up Sikkim border dispute with China - Indian Express
• China is 'no monster' ...we have made mistakes, Ambassador Says - Trinidad and Tobago Express
• Carrying a Symbol of Hope and Protest - Indianapolis Star
• Tawang is part of India: Dalai Lama - Times of India
• Tibet, Burma and the Olympic Games dominate talks between MEPs and Chinese parliamentarians - Yttre Förbindelser
• Pro-Tibetan Activists Pledge Worldwide Protests During Beijing Olympics - AP
• Pro-Tibetan activists pledge worldwide protests during Beijing Olympics - AP
• More Armed Police in Tibet as Religious Festival Begins - AFP
• Tibet Leaders Seek End to Chinese Atrocities in Lhasa - Press Trust of India
• China keeping Tight Grip on Tibet - BBC News
• Democracy Thwarted - The Pioneer
• Norway Trying to Broker Peace Between China and Tibet - Aftenposten (Norway)

• Longtime professor Vic Mansfield dies at age 67 - Colgate University News
• Letter: McLeodganj goes global sans basic facilities - Thaindian News
• Tell IOC: No Torch Through Tibet! - US Tibet Committee
• Commentary: Why does the Dalai Lama feel helpless? - Xinhua
• Tibetan flag on top of Mount Everest - Phayul
• Politics travel the China-Tibet railway Qinghai-Tibet train - Marketplace (USA)
• Harnessing the Tibetan sun - MIT News Office
• Selling Tibet to the world - The Age
• Rudd's Asia plan sinks in Beijing - Taipei Times
• India police turn back Tibetans marching to homeland: official - AFP
• Beijing Suspends Licenses of 2 Lawyers Who Offered to Defend Tibetans in Court - New York Times
• China quake relief may delay talks - Press Trust of India
• China says arrests 16 for bombings in Tibet - Reuters
• Symbol of Tibetan resistance addresses Council - Human Rights Tribune
• Mediating on Tibet Through Culture - Wall Street Journal
• Op-Ed: Trivializing Tibet: China's rhetoric of non-action - Stanford Daily
• The Karmapa of Tibet builds in Earleton - Bradford County Telegraph
• Taktser Rinpoche Receives Tibetan Freedom Torch - ITIM
• U.S. Senators have added to the Congressional concern about the situation in Tibet - Tibet
• Lips zipped on Dalai Lama, Olympics - Herald Sun
• Caught between India and China, monks' protest on Tibet silenced - livemint.com (India)
• "Solidarity Day for Tibet" - The Nepal Tibetan Solidarity Forum
• 16 Tibetans held on bombing charges - Xinhua
• India will not tolerate any anti-China activity: Pranab - The Hindu
• ICT delivers UN statement on illegal killings by security forces in Tibet - ICT
• Tibet: UNPO General Assembly Member Resolution - UNPO
• Nelson will meet Dalai Lama - World News Australia

• Poem: The Beijing Olympics - Tsoltim N. Shakabpa
• Film Review: Review: 'Mongol' Epic Restores 'Good-guy Reputation' of Genghis Khan - Christian Science Monitor
• Film Review: Dalai Lama's past, opinions documented in '10 Questions' - The Norman Transcript
• A Taste of Ladakh - Business Standard (India)
• Journey of a Buddhaholic - Sydney Morning Herald
• Victim or Victor? China's Olympic Odyssey - Wall Street Journal
• China commits 70 million dollars to preserve Tibet Culture - AFP
• Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Qin Gang's Regular Press Conference - PR China -- Foreign Ministry
• Press Advisory: Legal Guidelines for Foreigners -- Olympic Traps for Foreigners? - Human Rights in China (HRIC)
• With Olympics Approaching US Reconsiders Sonic Blasters for China - Spiegel
• IOC in Fear of Beijing Crackdown - Guardian
• China's Olympic Torch Relay set to Continue through Tibet - ICT
• Committee to Protect Journalists Cautions of risks to Media during the Olympics - Phayul
• Tighter Australia-China ties Worry Asian Neighbors - Christian Science Monitor
• Greek Police Detain Tibetan Activists - Reuters
• Western Views on Tibet - Heart of the Matter - TibetNet

• Forums on China and Olympics - Boston Globe
• Debating Tibet: A Reply to Michael Walzer - Dissent Magazine
• The Tibetan Intifada - Dissent Magazine
• Book Review: The Gripes of Wrath - Sunday Herald
• Book Reviews: The Lives of the Dalai Lamas - The Telegraph
• Tibet in Exile: An Interview with Pico Iyer - Dissent Magazine
• Tibet Bridge Protesters' 'Punishment' Familiar - The San Francisco Chronicle
• The Aftershock: China's New Open Face - The Island (Sri Lanka)
• Security Tightened for Visit - Sydney Morning Herald
• EU asks China to Conduct Fair Trial for Tibetan Detainees - TibetNet
• Nepali Police Halt Pro-Tibet Protests, 450 Detained - Reuters
• China silences Tibet folk singer Drolmakyi - Los Angeles Times
• China's Olympic Torch relay set to continue through Tibet - ICT
• Interview: Very few chances of agreeing with China: Tibetan leader - IANS

• Future Perfect - Times of India
• Fleeting Images of a Changing Tibet - Allentown Morning Call
• TIPA turns 49, Pays Musical Tribute to Tibetan Martyrs - Tibet.net
• Boycott is the Moral Response to Olympics in China - Compass
• Dalai Clique is Chief Criminal of Violent Crimes - People's Daily Online
• Arrested Tibetans-in-exile Say They will Reach Homeland - ICT by ANI
• 185 More Pro-Tibetan Protesters Detained In Nepal - All Headline News
• AP Exclusive: Networks, Olympics Organizers Clash - AP
• Australian Actress Adds Voice for Tibet's Freedom - TibetProject.com
• RFA: Updates on Tibet - Radio Free Asia
• Tibetan Sichuan Undercover - Radio Free Asia
• Dalai Lama Hopes to Visit Taiwan Again - China News Agency
• Foreign briefing: The Tibetan government-in-exile has denied secret talks - The Scotman
• China's foreign minister says Dalai Lama should stop fomenting secession in Tibet - AP
• Trouble Ahead for Tibet? - TIME
• Peace Concert in Support of His Holiness in Australia - TibetNet
• Pressure Mounts over PM's Unanswered Olympic Invitation - ABC News

• Tibet, and My Time Spent There - Columbia East Asia Review
• For the Record: Tibetan Monks Sealed in Monastery in Sichuan Request Permission to Pray for Chinese Quake Victims - Huffington Post
• IOC stiffens its upper lip as Chinese authorities tighten their grip - The Guardian
• Olympic Propaganda Plan a Loser - The Standard
• Macau, HK, Taiwan reporters conclude Lhasa trip, say much to write about in region - Macau Daily Times
• China's Opressive Rule in Tibet Intensifies Apace - Tibet Custom
• Opinion: Treat with Caution - The Telegraph
• Dalai Lama donates for Burma's cyclone victims - Mizzima News
• Tibetan Freedom Torch arrives in St Paul - Daily Planet
• EU Troika-China Meeting Focuses on Bilateral Relations - Slovenska Tiskovna Agencija
• March to Tibet restarts as six leaders released from jail - TPUM
• Tibetans who fled Lhasa after March 10 crackdown recount horrors of life - topnews.in (India)
• 'Turmoil in Nepal is of Nehru's making' - DNA
• Tibetan Demonstrators Stabbed during a Peaceful Protest - Tibet Post International
• China detains scores of nuns calling for the release of solo protester and critically injures three monks in Kardze Protests - TCHRD
• US, Europe to hail China talks with Dalai Lama - AFP
• Dalai Lama arrives in Sydney tomorrow amid more talks with China - LiveNews
• Columnists: Beijing 2008 -- Stop the sport of China-bashing - Ethical Corporation
• "My Tibet: Secret report from the roof of the world" - The Independent
• 'Dispatches: Undercover in Tibet' is on Norwegian national TV - Norwegian Tibet Committtee
• Adelaide 'Su-Lin' Young, 96; explorer's name was given to 1st giant panda in U.S. - The Los Angeles Times
• Poem: "The Beijing Olympics" - Tsoltim N. Shakabpa
• China Rises" To Challenges - Wall Street Journal
• Dating Problems? Career Woes? Maybe the Dalai Lama Can Help - Wall Street Journal
• Chinese Views on Tibet: The Cry of Tibet - Tibet Custom
• The Rise and Rise of China's Mr Tears - Asia Times
• Celebrating the World Environment Day and TEAM's 3rd Anniversary - Tesi Environmental Awareness Movement
• Religious Boom in China After Quake - Asahi.com (South Korea)
• Former British Government Minister joins local Tibetan Solidarity Day - Nepal Tibetan Solidarity Forum
• Amnesty Asks Kiwi Olympians to Take Stand - New Zealand Herald
• Despite Brutal Crackdown, Tibet Religious Circles Make Generous Donations to Quake-battered Region - Phayul
• Nepali police scuffle with Tibetans, detain 239 - Reuters
• Beijing: A Harder Line on Tibet? - TIME
• China to Oppose Any External Interference on Tibet Issue - Press Trust of India
• 19th Anniversary Commemoration Rally of Tiananmen Square Massacre - ICT
• Spotlight on China, Darkness in Tibet - Christian Science Monitor
• Australian leader criticized for not arranging to meet Dalai Lama in Sydney - CP
• Lama Gets to Meet Another Alternative PM - Sydney Morning Herald
• Dalai Lama Arrives in Sydney - Sydney Morning Herald
• China Says Stop Tibet Protests to Advance Talks - Reuters

• The Lost World of Tibet - DVD Times
• Tents, tanks and a torch in China - Asia Times
• "No one can take away who we are" - Columbia East Asia Review
• Barefoot Experts - Phayul
• Poem: I Shall be Free - Tsoltim N. Shakabpa
• Montrealer marches with Tibetan refugees - Montreal Gazette
• IOC: Tell China to Let Media into Tibet - US Tibet Committee
• BEIJING 2008: Exiled Government Says Dalai Lama May Go - AGI News
• Free Tibet campaign shifts pressure to Coke's London office - Ed Kemp Marketing
• Olympic torch arrives in Tibetan areas amid tight security - Reuters
• Chinese Checks - Times of India
• Keep It Up, China! - Embassy Magazine
• Members of Parliament Meet His Holiness the Dalai Lama - Tibet Custom
• China's Human Rights Violations in Tibet discussed at UNHRC - Tibet Custom
• Tibetan Delegation Draw UNHRC's Focus on Rights Issues in Tibet - Tibet Custom
• Nelson Meets with Dalai Lama in Sydney - Scopical
• Dalai Lama Starts Australia Tour - BBC News
• Dalai Lama Makes Peace Overture to China - West Australian

• Tibet stars in tales of despair, hope - Montreal Gazette
• Tibet And Politics Could Continue To Plague China And The 2008 Beijing Olympics - KWNow (Waterloo-Kitchener, Canada)
• Essay: The Role of English in Poetry by Tibetans - Tsoltim Ngima Shakabpa
• IOC Refuses to Act on Media Freedom in Tibet - US Tibet Committee
• Public Talk: Will Tibet Survive the Olympics? - The Heritage Foundation
• China Stages Anti-terror Drills - Independent Online
• The West is doing China no favours by rushing to apologise for every perceived slur - Guardian
• China says Tibet still off-limits to foreigners - Thomson Financial/AFP
• Marchers walk towards India's last township near the border - Phayul
• Tibetan exiles protest outside UN office in Kathmandu - The Earth Times/DPA
• Dalai Lama asks Tibetans to respect China's glory - The Age
• China warns Australia over Dalai Lama visit - AFP
• Autonomy and Ethnic Conflict: The Case of Tibet - ISA Annual Meeting
• Law and Reality in Occupied Tibet - IndLawNews
• India takes the high ground against China - Asia Times
• Tibetan monks forced to take "patriotic tests" - Reuters
• Ignoring China's warnings acting PM meets His Holiness - Phayul
• China, Germany resume dialogue after Dalai Lama row - Reuters
• Kerry O'Brien's exclusive interview with the Dalai Lama - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
• Shifting sands tell the tale of the Chinese West - International Herald Tribune
• Security strangles the Olympic Games - The Australian

• Aussie cycling champ ups Tibet campaign - Sydney Morning Herald
• Dalai Lama Warns of Inner Ugliness - Asia News International
• China blocks entry for Nepalese as pro-Tibet protests continue - ZeeZee News (India)
• Food Shortage Hits Upper Mustang - The Himalayan Times
• Hunger Strike by Tibetan Exiles - Daily India
• Tibetan Youth Restless in Dharamsala - Asia News International
• Tibet Demonstrations -- Update on Tibet - Tibet Custom
• Tibetan monks undergo 'patriotic tests' - Reuters
• I am an Honest Friend of China: Dalai Lama - Financial Times
• Dalai Lama: He's no Foe of Beijing - The Australian
• Book Review: Wolves and Other Mongolians - Globe & Mail
• Book Review: Asia's Awesome Threesome - Asia Times
• Tibet Was Warmer and Wetter Two Million Years Ago - ENS
• Western Democracy Loses Ground To Autocrats - Spiegel
• China PSB's Clampdown On Foreign Business Visitors - Tibet
• Is China's Tibet policy bad for business? - Daily Times (Pakistan)
• China Travel Feels a Chill - Wall Street Journal
• Olympic Games Still a Chinese Puzzle - Variety (USA)
• Beijing Olympics: BBC to show protests - The Telegraph
• The big China change - La Stampa (Italy)

• Book Review: Why Dalai Lama Matters - The Pioneer (India)
• Tibet Stars in Tales of Despair, Hope - The Montreal Gazette
• For the Record: 'Conference for an Independent Tibet' -- 2007 - Friends of Tibet at Gandhi Peace Foundation
• China clampdown for Olympic torch in Xinjiang: residents, exiles - AFP
• Olympic Ambush Watch: Athletes, Tattoos, T-Shirts and Amnesty International - Huffington Post
• India in the Red - The Business Standard (India)
• China Says Ties with Germany Normal After Dalai Lama Row - Deutsche Welle
• China-Germany Talks Thaw Relations That Had Cooled over Tibet - International Herald Tribune
• Workshop: Today's Youth, Tomorrow's Leaders - Tibet.net
• More Tibetan Protests - Radio Free Asia
• Nepal police break up Tibet protests, 182 held - Reuters
• Tibetan exiles protest outside UN office in Kathmandu - Deutsche Presse-Agentur
• Compassion is Commonsense: Dalai Lama - The Australian Associated Press
• Blog: Self Determination: A Case for Tibet - TibetSites.com Blog
• "Mudrel Tibetan Music": Solidarity to the ongoing peaceful Tibetan protests - India Tibet Coordination Office

• Children's Art Installation for Dalai Lama Symposium at Aspen Institute - PRWeb
• Interview: Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman on 'Why the Dalai Lama Matters' - San Francisco Chronicle
• Travel: Leh -- Land Of Castles, Monasteries & Lakes - India Post
• From the Other Side: Olympic Spirit and Media Objectivity Should Be Upheld - The Women's International Perspective
• Excitement on India-China frontier over female Buddha statue - IANS
• Disturbing new regulations prior to Olympic Games, increased control in Sichuan - Reporters Without Borders
• China Human Rights Website Founder Kidnapped by Police in Earthquake Capital City - Reporters Without Borders
• Biography of Marcher: Shingza Rinpoche - tibetanuprising.org
• Ancient Kingdom of Mustang Reels under Chinese Border Closure - Tibet Custom
• Nepal, China trust and respect each other: Ambassador Zheng - Nepal Rising
• In China, German Foreign Minister Calls for Open Dialog - Deutsche Welle
• India's Double Standard On Tibet - NDTV.com
• China appoints terrorism expert vice-public security minister ahead of August Beijing Olympics - AP
• Tibetans And Supporters To Protest Olympic Torch Arrival In Tibet's Capital Lhasa, June 17-18 - US Tibet Committee
• Olympic Torch To Make Brief Tibet Stop - AFP
• China Postpones Olympic Torch Relay Through Tibetan Capital - Bloomberg
• China Clampdown for Olympic Torch in Xinjiang: Residents, Exiles - AFP
• China Braces for High-security Torch Leg in Muslim West - AFP
• Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche talks on 'Future Prospects for Tibet' - Phayul

• Scientists Search for Medical Secrets in Himalayas - The St. Petersburg Times (Russia)
• Monks observe silver jubilee of Buddhist institute in Sikkim - The Statesman (India)
• Tibet Monks to Build the Sand Mandala in Moscow - Interfax
• View: Big Brother, Tibet, and the Earthquake - The Daily Times (Pakistan)
• An Inside Account of Sino-Indian Border Talks - rediff.com
• Commentary: China, India: Back to the Boundary - International Relations and Security Network
• 49 Hours Non-Stop Demonstration through Music - Tibetcity.com
• Join the June 18th Global Day of Action - Students for a Free Tibet (SFT)
• INTERVIEW: People of Taiwan still in thoughts of the Dalai Lama - Taipei Times
• Beijing Welcomes the World, sort of... - Phayul
• Dalai Lama wraps up Australia tour, heads to Jordan - Phayul
• OPINION: Simmering Discontent - Outlook (India)
• China: Lhasa Torch Relay Tarnishes Olympic Movement - Human Rights Watch
• Beijing Olympic Torch to Stop in Tibet - ABC Radio Australia
• Scholars Cautiously Optimistic Over Latest 'pragmatic' Offer - South China Morning Post
• Dalai Lama Offers To Send Peace Agents - South China Morning Post
• Messages of Intent - South China Morning Post
• Marchers to Reach Tibet Border Area Tomorrow - TPUM
• The Long March Home - Phayul
• 50 Marchers Arrested Close To Indo-Tibet Border as China Changes Tibet Olympic Torch Relay Route - TPUM

• Large religious festival casts serenity to Lhasa three months after riot - Xinhua
• Local officials: Lhasa to re-open to foreign tourists soon - Xinhua
• Chinese Consulate Interfering Again - Epoch Times
• Olympic Pressure on China - Council on Foreign Relations
• Tibetan Girl shot dead while attempting to visit her brothers monastery - Tibet Custom
• Secret Dalai agent fomenting Nepal unrest: Chinese envoy - The Economic Times/IANS (India)
• Security and Choreography mark Silk Road Torch Relay - Reuters
• East Turkestan: "Harmonious Society," at What Price? - UNPO
• China Torch Relay: Urumqi - BBC
• Olympic Torch Arrives in China's West - AP
• Q & A: The Olympic Torch in Xinjiang and Tibet - New York Times
• China confirms one-day torch relay in Tibet - AFP
• Media freedom pledge ignored in China's far west - Guardian
• CTA's Response to Chinese Government Allegations: Part Three - Tibet.net

• Poem: Ever Say Never? - Tsoltim N. Shakabpa
• Movie Review: Have a Heart - Idaho Montain Express
• In Love with Lijiang - The Standard (Hong Kong)
• FACTFILE: From Superpower to Province - Helsingin Sanomat (Finland)
• Exhibition at Museum Centre Vapriikki in Tampere opens a window into Tibetan culture - Helsingin Sanomat (Finland)
• India Goes to War in Space - Asia Times
• Books Reviews: Why Care about Tibet? - The Times Literary Supplement
• Another Chinese 'incursion' at Sikkim border - Times of India
• Saka Dawa: The Tibetan month of Great Merits - Phayul
• Olympic Torcher - San Antonio Current
• Italy marches for Tibet - Phayul
• Dalai Lama: Happiness -- and Hope - Parramatta Advertiser
• Security and choreography mark Silk Road torch relay - Reuters Canada
• Opinion: The Tibet Blame Game - American Chronicle
• China rights questioned weeks before Olympics - Washington Times/Reuters
• Tibetan Freedom Torch in Philadelphia - US-Tibet Committee
• Tibet Protest March Limps to a Halt - TIME
• Amnesty seeks 'missing' Tibetans - BBC
• China: One Thousand Protesters Unaccounted for In Tibet Lock-down - Amnesty International
• The Rise of Another Red Army - Asia Times
• China mobilizes 100,000-member Anti-terrorism force for Beijing Olympics - CP
• Becoming a Bald Tibetan Lay Woman - Phayul
• China's Olympics euphoria tempered by Tibet riots, quake losses - Xinhua
• Tibetan leg of torch relay reduced from three days to one - Reporters Without Borders
• Olympic torch arrives in China's Muslim northwest - Radio Taiwan International
• Tibetan leaders in Nepal arrested from their homes - Phayul
• Nepal halts Tibetan march to China office, 600 held - Reuters
• Urgent: Tibet Under Attack - Tibetan Students in London

• Exhibition: Paradise on Earth at the Rubin Museum - New York Sun
• Home: What's the price for capitalizing on foreign backing? - People's Daily
• Down with the Dalai Lama - Guardian
• Dream Builder - Madison Magazine
• China's minority "problem" is a world problem - Northville Record
• Chindia: Cooperate, compete or confront - The Peninsula
• China: Lhasa Torch Relay Tarnishes Olympic Movement - Human Rights Watch
• Australia PM to attend Olympics, critics fume - Reuters
• The Long March to Tibet - Phayul
• Olympic torch paraded through military city in China's northwest - AFP
• China allows foreign reporters into Tibet for Olympic torch relay - RIA Novosti (Russia)
• Olympic flames to reunite in Lhasa Saturday - China Daily
• Around 700 Tibetan separatists detained in Nepal - Xinhua
• World Refugee Day marked today - Nepalnews.com
• Tibetan protesters missing after Chinese arrests: rights group - Jurist
• Nepal ignores the threat of China while cracking down on Tibetan's - Tibet Custom
• Nepal police hunt for Dalai Lama's representative - Thaindian News
• ICT calls for urgent international action against new Nepal government arrests of Tibetans - ICT report
• Rights Group Calls for Release of Arrested Tibetans in Nepal - Tibet Custom
• Exile Tibetans protest at Indo-Tibet border on eve of torch relay - TPUM
• CTA's Response to Chinese Government Allegations: Part Three - TibetNet
• CTA's Response to Chinese Government Allegations: Part Two - TibetNet
• CTA's response to Chinese government allegations: Part One - TibetNet
• Kalon Tripa's Statement on 'Future Prospects for Tibet' - TibetNet

• China's Olympic Nightmare - Foreign Affairs
• ANALYSIS: Olympic torch travels to Tibet under cloud of oppression - Asia-Pacific News
• France urged to support Games ceremony boycott as new head of European Council - Reporters Without Borders
• Olympic torch to make stop in Tibetan capital, 3 months after rioting rocked city - AP
• Security tight for Tibet torch relay, foreign media allowed - Deutsche Presse-Agentur
• Rights Group Calls for Release of Arrested Tibetans in Nepal - Tibet Custom
• Arrested Tibetan marchers on hunger strike for second day - TPUM
• Tibet Capital under Lockdown for Olympic Torch - Globe & Mail
• Tibet Capital under tight guard for Olympic torch - Reuters
• Tensions are High as the Olympic Torch Arrives in Lhasa - TCHRD
• China denounces Dalai Lama on torch relay - Reuters
• FACTBOX - Q and A on the Olympic torch's sensitive trip to Tibet - Reuters
• 500 Tibetans detained in Nepal in protest over Lhasa torch relay - AFP
• 20 Tibet supporters occupy the roof of the French Olympic Committee - libertibet.net
• Celebrating Olympic Torch Will Not Gloss Over The Situation In Tibet - Amnesty International India & Tibetan Solidarity Committee
• Climate of fear as Olympic Torch Arrives in Lhasa - ICT Report
• Beijing Olympics 2008: Torch relay reaches sealed-off Tibet - Guardian
• Return to Tibet: Why The March Matters - Phayul
• MacBain: Western leaders "must know more" about Tibet, Dalai Lama - Xinhua
• Book Reviews: Medals And Rights - New Republic
• Book Review: Tibet: The Lost Frontier and Missed Opportunity - Claude Arpi
• China tightens screws against dissidents ahead of Olympics - AFP
• Gere's Tibet cameo Fiat ad angers China - Financial Times
• Reporters stopped from seeing sensitive Tibetan temple - AFP
• Security Lockdown At Tibetan Monastery for New Patriotic Education Campaign - ICT
• In Shangri-La, culture a hot commodity - Washington Post
• Dalai Lama back to Dharamshala - MeriNews
• The Jackpot Olympics: the Torch in Tibet - Phayul
• INTERVIEW: An uncompromising view on freedom from the largest Tibetan group in exile - Taipei Times
• Heavily Guarded Olympic Torch Is Conveyed Through Tibetan Capital - Washington Post
• China parades Olympic torch in tense Tibet -- Summary - Deutsche Presse-Agentur
• In Lhasa, barbed wire greets Olympic torch - Globe & Mail
• Amnesty International India stands with Tibet - Phayul
• China parades Olympic torch in heavily guarded capital of Tibet - Los Angeles Times

• Film Review: "Buddha Wild Monk in a Hut," Directed and Narrated by Anna Wilding - Carpe Diem Films
• Beijing There: It's Not All Fun and Games - BrandWeek (USA)
• Living Buddha: Religious Activities Revive in Tibetan Monasteries - Xinhua
• Sikkim is part of India, concedes Chinese envoy - Times of India
• Tibet Activists Hold Three-day Protest Outside Toronto Chinese Consulate - Epoch Times
• Crackdown, American Style - Boston Globe
• Get On the Bus - Globe & Mail
• Resistance snuffed out as Olympic torch tours Tibet - The Independent
• Dalai Lama Censured at Olympic Tibet Relay - Financial Times
• China Condemns Dalai Lama in Tibet - Reuters
• Rangzen Flame Reaches Paris - Phayul
• Analysis: Once Olympics are over there will be a settling of accounts - The Times
• Exiled Tibetans Wage Cyber Attack on China - Sify News
• Tibetan Parliament Appeals For Fair Treatment of Tibetans in Nepal - TibetNet
• Lhasa's monks all but vanish in Chinese crackdown - Globe & Mail
• Olympic flame reaches Lhasa but Tibetans are kept in dark - The Times

• Filmmaker Lara Damiani Speaks about Documentary and the Dalai Lama - All Headline News
• Traditional painters from Tibet and India work to transform new temple - LaCrosse Tribune
• New Books go behind Great Wall of Chinese Censorship - Evansville Courier
• To understand China's Future, Look to its Past - The Times
• Fiat to keep running ad featuring actor Richard Gere in Tibet despite apology to China - AP
• Foreign media curbed as Olympic flame passes through Xijiang and Tibet - Reporters Without Borders
• China's Visa Policy Threatens Olympics Tourism - New York Times
• Freedom Torch Burns for Tibet - Whangarei Leader
• Blog: The Spirit call Tibet! - tibetsites.blogspot
• Big Brother, Tibet and the Earthquake - Business Standard
• Tibetans Learn Skills of Negotiation and Conflict Resolution - Tibet Custom
• Opinion: Potemkin Lhasa Postscript - Agam Gecko
• Update on Tibet, 23 June 2008. Re: Tibet Demonstrations - Tibet Custom
• It's Not The Economy, Stupid! - Phayul
• Tibet in Translation - BBC
• Parliamentarians call on Czech Government to formulate policy on Tibet - Tibet Bureau, Geneva

• Media: Producer sees red in BBC Dalai Lama row - The Telegraph
• Beijing 2008 -- Granbassi: "I Would Refuse for a Free Tibet" - AGI/ItalPress
• News From Behind The New Iron Curtain - Agam's Gecko Blog
• China says it'll work hard to stabilise situation in Tibet - Press Trust of India
• Tibet to reopen to foreign tourists Wednesday: state media - AFP
• Tibet freedom torch starts New Zealand leg of voyage in city - Southland Times
• "Illegal immigration" accusations against marchers to Tibet - Asia News
• Kalon Tripa to Meet Senior Gandhians in Delhi - Tibet Custom
• All India Tibet Support Groups' Conference to Begin on 28 June - Tibet Custom
• Update on Tibet, 24 June Re; Tibet Demonstrations - TibetNet
• China asserts its role in Nepal - The Telegraph Nepal
• Tibet Reopens to Foreign Tourism - BBC
• "Tour of Peace -- Marathon for Dialogue" ends European expedition - Phayul
• IOC investigates anti-Dalai Lama torch relay speech - Reuters
• Fiat apologises to China after Gere ad promotes Tibetan independence - The Independent
• Shanghai bans troublemakers leaving city during Olympics - Reuters
• Open Forum With Chinese Dissident Yang Jianli - Epoch Times
• For these Brooklyn students, prom is a foreign concept - International Herald Tribune
• Reporting From ... The Beijing Bureau - ESPN
• F-Secure Reports Malware Growth at a Higher Level Than Ever Before - Earth Times
• Op-ed: China eyeing Sikkim again - The Pioneer
• Merging India into Nepal! - Telegraph Nepal
• Beijing gets ground-to-air defense for Olympics - AP
• Beijing Games 2008 -- European Union - Reporters Without Borders
• Foreign media curbed as Olympic flame passes through Xinjiang and Tibet - Reporters Without Borders

• How Buddha Got it Wrong - CBC
• Orientation Course for the 2008 batch Tibetan Scholarship Programme - Tibet.net
• Pro-Tibet protester runs onto field during Euro 2008 semifinal match - AP
• My Interview with the Dalai Lama's Youngest Brother - Tokyo Mango Blog
• Nepalese at risk of starvation: WFP - PTI
• Olympics FAQ: Beijing Internet Censorship and Surveillance - CNet
• Tibet reopens to foreign tourism, with restrictions for journalists and tourists - Asia News
• Xinhua: Tibet Re-opens to Foreign Journalists - Xinhua
• China Reopens Tibet to Foreign Tourists - AP
• Dalai Lama gets Honorary Citizenship of Polish city - IANS
• Invite the 14th Dalai Lama to the G8 Summit! - Free Tibet Team Japan
• Petition to 'Invite the Dalai Lama to the G8 Summit' - Phayul
• China says anti-Dalai Lama rant not politicising Games - Reuters
• UPDATE 2 - IOC tells China to stop mixing politics and sport - Reuters
• Nepal Tibetans Begin their March to Tibet - Phayul
• Letter: July 6, World Tibet Day - WTD
• TCHRD commemorates 11th UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture - TCHRD
• Interview of Lhasa's Jokhang Monastery by Foreign Media Canceled - Epoch Times
• Where Have All the Monks Gone? - Epoch Times

• Chinese Tibetologists say hard to communicate with West - Xinhua
• Sacred sounds - New Statesman
• Foreigners Cry Foul As China Rejects Visas Before Games - New York Times
• China, India hasten arms race in space - Washington Times
• Activists Warned on Olympic Protests - New York Times
• Dharamsala Tibetans celebrate birthday of Karmapa Lama - ANI
• China toys with India's border - Asia Times
• The Olympics aren't political? Please. - Foreign Policy
• China to operate Lhasa airport round the clock - Reuters
• China allows foreign journalists in Tibet - Times of India
• Foreign journalists can apply to enter Tibet: Beijing - Macau Dalily Times
• Tibet unrest dents Shangri-la tourism, but temporarily - Reuters
• The Torture Game 2: Torment to players - Globe & Mail
• US calls on Nepal to release Tibetan activists - DPA
• ITIM and March for Tibet - ITIM
• International Olympic Committee sets precedent with reprimand for Tibet Party boss - Tibet
• 70 Tibetans detained in Nepal capital -- police - Agence France-Presse
• US 'deeply concerned' over Nepal arrests of Tibetan protesters - AFP
• Nepal: Stumbling Home - Strategy Page
• OPINION: An Old Chinese Proverb - Outlook Magazine
• PLA's rapid reaction capability in Tibet - UPI Asia
• IOC censures Beijing over motto - Financial Times
• Beijing in lockdown - Toronto Star
• Seeing the Light -- Questions for Robert Thurman - New York Times
• Tibetan Monk Demands Probe - Radio Free Asia
• Chushi Gangdruk, the 50th Anniversary and Conference on Future of Tibet - Tibet
• Increase in pre-Olympic Repression - Reporters without Borders
• Reporters' Guide to China Olympics - Human Rights Watch
• Portals to oppression - Guardian
• French President will meet with Dalai Lama, reports French daily - Phayul
• Nepal Tibetan marchers halfway to the border - Phayul
• Dharamsala Welcome Tibet Opening, but Urges Restrain - TibetNet
• TCHRD commemorates 11th UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture - TCHRD
• Lhasa is No 1 priority for new US consulates in China: Congress approves $5 million to build - ICT
• Governments criticize Nepal authorities for detention of three Tibetans and mistreatment of Tibetan protestors in Nepal - ICT
• Tibetan Parliamentary Delegation Conclude Russia Visit - TibetNet
• Update on Tibet, 27 June 2008 - Tibet Custom

• Experts speak out on Dalai Lama - Xinhua
• Arbour exits top UN human rights post after four bruising years - AFP
• Nationalist fervor in China is backed by anger - International Herald Tribune
• Beijing Olympics: The Nest Generation - The Observer
• An Interview with I by Me - Tsoltim N. Shakabpa
• Journeys to the ends of the earth - Sunday Deccan Herald
• Buddha statue brought to the US, welcomed by dozens in Arlington - Boston Globe
• A picture and a thousand words - Toronto Star
• China wants curbs on open India-Nepal border -- report - IANS
• His Holiness The Dalai Lama Birthday Celebration - Namgyal Monastery
• Interview: The Karmapa: Tibet's Holy Man In Waiting - Newsweek
• Rice emphasises friendship during China visit - Reuters
• Condoleezza Rice urged to address human rights issues during her trip to China - Reporters Without Borders
• Deputy Speaker attends All India Tibet Support Groups' Conference - Tibet Custom
• All India Tibet Support Groups' Conference underway in Chandigarh - Phayul
• March to Tibet concludes as jailed marchers released - TPUM