WTN for January 2010

• China Jails Tibetan Filmmaker - RFA

• TASTING FREEDOM - Tsoltim N. Shakabpa
• Richard Gere leads candlelight march - Hindustan Times
• The Realist Case for Tibetan Autonomy - Wall Street Journal
• State casts shadow over China's cinema boom - Irish Times
• Tibetan filmmaker denied appeal to 6-year sentence - Committee to Protect Journalists
• Tibetan Filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen Sentenced To 6 Years In Prison - Tibet Post
• China jails Tibetan filmmaker - Guardian
• Tibetan jailed for 6 years over documentary - CBC News
• Film Diplomacy: China and Tibet Skirmish at a Festival - New York Times
• China withdraws films in protest over Dalai Lama doc - CBC News
• Film Fest Refuses To Bow To Chinese Demands, Shows Tibet Film - KESQ
• Chinese Government Fails to Block Tibet Film Screening At Major Festival In US - ICT

• THE TRAITOR - Tsoltim N. Shakabpa
• Hong Kong police arrest prominent pro-democracy activist - monstersandcritics.com
• Gere backs vegetarian zone at site of enlightenment - New Zealand Herald
• Canada's pharmaceuticals will be coming from China - Toronto Sun
• China blocks IMDb over Tibet film - tech.blorge.com
• Radiohead's Thom Yorke writes new songs for Tibet documentary - Guardian
• How David Miliband betrayed Tibet - Telegraph
• China Blocks Wired.com With 'Great Firewall' - Wired
• Dalai Lama speaks out on China rule: Tibet's worst days under military yoke - Telegraph

• China pledges more investment, religious controls in Tibet - Reuters
• Tibet maintains India's rich tradition: Dalai Lama - Indian Express News Service
• 'Substantial land' losses to China reported along the LAC - Top News India
• TCHRD condemns China sentencing of Tibetan Filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen - Tibet Custom
• Walker's World: From warming to warring - UPI
• Soot and glaciers - environmentalresearchweb.com
• Dalai Lama preaches peace to Maoists - Calcutta Telegraph
• China in a mood to punish Britain - Guardian
• Obama crosses fingers on China in new year - Kuwait Times
• Controversy Leads To Sold Out Tibetan Documentary Screenings - KPSP

• Google decision a "crack in the wall of censorship" that sets new standard - ICT
• The War Over Words: Why Google's New Approach to China Should Be the Only Approach - huffingtonpost.com
• Google is latest target of aggressive hacking from China - Christian Science Monitor
• Google May Exit China After Ending Self-Censorship - Bloomberg
• Google relaxes self-censorship in China - CNN
• Statement from Google: A new approach to China - Google

• Poetry: If - Lhasang Tsering
• PATRIOTS AND TRAITORS - Tsoltim N. Shakabpa
• Global warming affecting Tibetan plateau: Dalai Lama - IANS
• Country's largest Buddhist temple in Gujarat - PTI
• India Should Get Tibetan Buddhist treasures: Dalai Lama - Vadodara
• I can't say Buddhism is the best religion: Dalai Lama - zeenews.com
• How About the Tibetan Personnel Changes in Lhasa? - ICT
• China appoints ex-soldier as Tibet governor - Tibet
• Tibet governor tenders resignation at policy meeting - Reuters
• Tibetans, Supporters Welcome Google's U-Turn on China Censorship - SFT
• China attack on Google 'routine' - BBC News
• Germany Takes Up Human Rights, Tibet Issues With China - RTT News
• German foreign minister raises issue of human rights during China visit - Deutsche Welle

• A year into presidency, Obama has little to show from China outreach - CP
• Inside Asia: Uneasy Path to Leadership for China - Reuters
• Iggy Pop Joins Tibet House Benefit Line-Up - cmj.com
• Security expert: Chinese authorities supported cyber attacks - Zdnet
• Tibetans handed over to UN - AFP
• Ten Tibetans arrested from Dolakha - nepalnews.com
• Tibet gets a 'strong willed' governor - UPI
• Student caught in cyberattack applauds Google stand - Palo Alto Online
• Dalai Lama sends "heartfelt condolences" to Haiti - Phayul

• Buddhist transformation - News Observer
• Kalimpong: Princess of the Himalayas - Bangalore Mirror
• US: Clinton to Press for Internet Freedom - Human Rights Watch
• Tibetans Seek a Way out of Impasse - Asia Times
• Google puts focus on China cyberwar fears - Reuters
• Google tests loyalties of China's wired generation - Reuters
• Hu's "New Deal" with Tibet: Chinese Characteristics and Tibetan Traits? - jamestown.org
• China irked over Costa Rican Presidential candidate's plan to name stadium after Dalai Lama - Phayul
• Exile Tibetan government optimistic about resumption of talks - Phayul
• New Man Same Chair - Phayul
• Senior Tibetan Communist criticizes government on ethnic policies - Phayul
• World Report: Abusers Target Human Rights Messengers - Human Rights Watch
• Where Does the Crime "Subversion of State Power" Come From? - highpeakspureearth.com
• A Tibetan Awarded Go-Dan in Karate - Tibet House Japan
• China-funded stadium to be named after Dalai Lama - IANS
• '300 arrested in Tibet in 2009; still in detention' - SIFY
• A chicken and egg dilemma in Tibet - San Francisco Chronicle
• Tibet in History this Week - Tibetan Review
• Petitioners protest China’s exhibition on Tibet in Tokyo - Tibetan Review
• China to focus on lithium mining in Tibet - Tibetan Review
• The Google war: China calls US an 'information imperialist' - The Independent
• Sino-U.S. ties hit new snag over Internet issues - Los Angeles Times
• China eyes grand plan to develop Tibetan regions - Washington Post
• 2009 a year of arbitrary convictions and heightened repression in Tibet - TCHRD
• The Cyberpunks & Its Cohorts - Phayul
• Leadership shifts in Tibet indicate Party priorities of military control and 'stability' - ICT
• Tibetan people offer long-life prayers for the Dalai Lama - Phayul

• An ode to the crane - The Hindu
• Tiger, the Buddha, and Me - American Thinker
• Film Producer, 'The feeling that they imbued in the performance was heavenly' - Epoch Times
• China Road: Which is the right path? - San Francisco Chronicle
• Obama is the most reactionary president since Nixon - Guardian, The Observer
• Call off the search? - The Hindu
• Hu Jintao attacks Dalai Lama for sabotaging stability in Tibet - PTI
• China to Seek 'Stability' in Tibet via Development - New York Times
• The Reincarnation Business -- Beijing Is Becoming Nervous; Too Nervous! - The Statesman
• Tibetan and Japanese Offer Tenshug Prayer for His Holiness the Dalai Lama - Tibet House Japan
• First international GTPN day marked - Phayul
• Canada Welcomes New China-Dalai Lama Talks - Government of Canada

• Walker's World: Ganging up on China - UPI
• China says it needs no Internet lessons from U.S. - Reuters
• China Tries to Steer Public Opinion on Web Issue - Wall Street Journal
• The Tibetans are back in town - Asia Times
• New Man Same Chair - CTA
• Tibetan Writers Participate in Asia's Biggest Literary Festival - CTA
• WFDA report highlights Google censorship case and unjust Chinese arrests - Tibet Post
• President Obama is committed to meet Dalai Lama: US - PTI
• China worried Dalai Lama might seek Indian citizenship - Economic Times
• Dalai Lama's envoys head to China - Financial Times
• Showing willing -- the Dalai Lama sends envoys to China once again, as our correspondent returns to Tibet - Economist.com
• Canada Welcomes New China-Dalai Lama Talks - Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Press Release: Dalai Lama's envoys leave for talks in China - ICT
• Press Statement: His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Envoys Leave for China for Ninth Round of Dialogue - CTA

• William A. Callahan's China: The Pessoptimist Nation - China Books
• "Lama, Patron, Artist" Exhibition Is First in the West Devoted to a Historical Tibetan Artist - 7thspace.com
• China steps up defence of Internet controls - Ottawa Citizen
• EDITORIAL: Google sounds alarm on cyberattacks: Highly sophisticated Chinese hackers threaten West's security. - American Chronicle
• Corporates, leaders 'sold out' Tibet for market - PTI
• Beijing boasts of 'leapfrog development' in Tibet - Christian Science Monitor
• Dalai Lama to visit Stanford, Ravenswood school - Palo Alto Online
• U.S. and Britain Hope For Positive Results from Tibet Talks - CTA
• Tibetan envoys in Beijing as China revamps policy - Reuters
• Dalai Lama envoys meet with China - Daily Telegraph
• A Poem: The Buddha - Tsoltim N. Shakabpa
• Opinion: Avatar's Pandora is Tibet - Tigiarya Taro
• Breathing Space: How Word Separation Can Save the Tibetan Language - Phayul
• An Interview: My essays present an argument: Tenzin - spicezee.zeenews.com
• Essay: Reincarnation Sutra Retold - Pioneer
• Tibetan exiles hold Thumbprint Campaign for Trulku Tenzin Delek's release - Phayul
• Return to Tibet -- Outward calm - The Economist
• Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy for the Tibetan People - CTA
• Drop demand for military removal from Tibet, China to Dalai envoys - Times of India
• Statement by UK Foreign Office Minister Ivan Lewis - UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• Dialogue between Tibet and China Statement by Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Møller - Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
• Denmark and Canada Call for Constructive and Meaningful Negotiations on Tibet - CTA
• Not hopeful of miracle, Tibetan PM on resumption of talks - Phayul
• China-Tibet talks resume amid bitter climate - AFP

• 'The Sun Behind the Clouds' to be screened in India - Phayul
• Roots and wings - Business Standard
• Google Outs Cyber Spies - esecurityplanet.com
• Commentary: Talking of Tibet - DNA India
• Course Correction - Newsweek
• U.S. State Department Releases Tibetan Translation of Religious Freedom Report - ICT
• China: Account for Uighur Refugees Forcibly Repatriated to China - Human Rights Watch
• China asks EU to lift arms embargo - Phayul
• TWA at international conferences on Women's rights - Phayul
• Outward calm - The Economist
• New China-Tibet Talks Prompt Speculation on Shift - AP
• Top-level meeting in Beijing sets strategy on Tibet - ICT

• Like House, Like Body - Tsoltim N. Shakabpa
• Battling the Information Barbarians - Wall Street Journal
• New China-Tibet talks show slight policy shift - AP
• God Bless And Keep The Himalayas - strategypage.com
• Burmese Democracy Activists Visit Tibetan Parliament in Exile - CTA
• Uighurs returned to China 'disappear' says rights group - BBC
• China suspends military exchanges with US - AP
• A Visit to 'Little Lhasa' - Irrawaddy
• Tibetan singer sentenced to over a year's imprisonment for "subversive songs" - Phayul
• Dalai Lama lives in hope but China holds high ground - Winnipeg Free Press
• Tibet envoys leave for fresh talks with China - Reuters