WTN for May 2010

• A New China Narrative? - RFA
• Secrets Law To Apply Online - RFA
• China pledges to repair quake-damaged monasteries - AP
• Looting, Higher Toll Seen - RFA
• Tibetan Quake Critic Arrested - RFA
• China’s Motives on Climate and Energy - New York Times
• Press Freedom Groups Raise Alarm Over Jailing of Bloggers Worldwide - VOA
• China wants telecom companies to inform on clients - AP
• China Moves to Tighten Data Controls - New York Times
• Compassion in Action - Shambhala Sun

• China's online population passes 400 million: state media - AFP
• In Shanghai, Alternatives To The World Expo - NPR
• China won't allow anonymous online comments - Economic Times
• China targets `foreign forces' in Web crackdown - AP
• Chinese Media Courts the Youngest Hero of the Tibet Quake - Rebecca Novick, Huffington Post

• Sri Lanka blocks cricketers visiting Dalai Lama - AFP
• Kyegu Dhondup Lungpa - ICT
• Dalai Lama calls Irish man his hero, honours him - Phayul
• More understanding, less blame - China Daily
• Rehousing of Northwest China's Quake Homeless to Take Three Years - Xinhua
• Province to preserve chalk message - Reuters
• Aid arrives for Tibetan mastiffs, forgotten victims of Yushu earthquake - The Times
• The earthquake in Qinghai - The Economist
• Propaganda Department sets rule for covering Shanghai Expo and Qinghai earthquake - Reporters without Borders
• Chinese Media Courts the Youngest Hero of the Tibet Quake - Huffington Post
• A lone protester calling for proper allocation of earthquake relief arrested - TCHRD

• Lhasa has own radio station - China Daily
• Reporters Without Borders Names World's Worst Media 'Predators' - VOA
• Mental Hospitals Detain Petitioners - RFA
• Chinese Rights Lawyer Disappears Again - New York Times
• Online Flash-Mob Protest - RFA
• News Curbs Around Expo - RFA
• Tibetan Quake Critic Still Held - RFA

• Letters: Sautman/Schrei Exchanges - Josh Schrei
• Letters: Sautman/Schrei Exchanges - Barry Sautman
• "Tibetan government-in-exile" is utterly illegal -- China - People's Daily
• Glimpse at Dalai's new defence for being son of India - People's Daily
• Dalai Lama fakes love of cricket to impress India, China claims - New Delhi
• Dalai Lama "very happy" to be included in 2011 Census of India - Phayul
• Why the Dalai Lama Matters: An interview with Robert Thurman - Rediff
• Shanghai Expo's "Heavenly Tibet" Pavilion a Farce, Says Group - Epoch Times
• Dalai Lama tells AP: Exiles must press China talks - AP

• Is Talking to Beijing About Human Rights a Waste of Time? - Foreign Policy

• FROM WHENCE COMETH MY HELP - Economist
• Genes explain why Tibetans thrive in high places - Reuters
• Villagers Renew Mine Protests - RFA
• Mine Sparks Anger in Qinghai - RFA

• Last month's temblor on the Tibetan plateau hasn't had the political aftershocks Beijing feared. But that doesn't mean all's well in China's wild west. - Tibet

• China quake bereaved reach grim milestone - BBC
• China Halts Journal Over Report on State-Owned Power Company - Bloomberg
• China's crackdown on nonprofit groups prompts new fears among activists - Tibet
• Family Church Members Detained - RFA
• Chinese man compensated for false murder conviction - BBC
• Obama Administration Prepares for China Human Rights Dialogue - VOA
• China's human rights lawyers face uphill struggle - AFP
• US 'to give $1.5m to Falun Gong internet freedom group' - BBC

• Lhasa to tighten rules for copy shops - AP
• Russia Ready To Assist To Resolve Tibet Issue - RTT News
• Softcover: UK: Chinese imperialism and the seeds of anger in Tibet - Taipei Times
• Dalai Lama in Indianapolis talks about challenges, compassion - Ball State Daily News
• Tibet Publishes Ten-year Tourism Development Roadmap - China Hospitality News
• Tibetans' Genes Help Them Thrive at High Altitudes - HealthDay News
• Is China Headed for a Crash? - New York Times
• China environmentalist released after prison term for what he says were trumped up charges - AP
• After Long Ban, Western China Is Back Online - New York Times
• No breakthroughs in US, China human rights talks - AP
• China Cracks Down on Web Savvy Activists - VOA
• Tibet’s Rivers Strangled by Dams - Epoch Times
• China’s Crises in Tibet and Xinjiang - Beijing believes investment is the way out - Epoch Times
• Tibet Independence Activists Could be Shot in Earthquake Zone - Epoch Times

• No matter their religion, reverent fans of Dalai Lama extol his message of love - JOANNA MOLLOY
• China stumped over Dalai Lama - Asia Times
• Dalai Lama: "21st century will be much happier" - NBC - Today Show
• Dalai Lama tweets to Chinese citizens, chatting about Tibet, China's policies - AP
• TIBET - CHINA Gansu: police fires on Tibetan protesters, 15 wounded and four arrested - Asia News
• Dalai Lama condemns capitalism - AP
• 'I'm a Marxist:' Dalai Lama - AFP
• China targets Tibet artists, intellectuals: report - Reuters
• China arrest six monks in early morning raids in Jomda - TCHRD
• Even the Dalai Lama Has a Point Man - New York Times
• China Aims to Stifle Tibet's Photocopiers - New York Times
• A lone protester calling for proper allocation of earthquake relief arrested - TCHRD
• Police open fire at Tibetans protesting cement factory pollution - ICT
• TREMORS OF HISTORY: GYALRONG 2008 & 1775 - Jamyang Norbu
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tweet with Chinese Writer - CTA

• English Translation of Wang Lixiong's Interview With His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Twitter - ICT
• Even the Dalai Lama Has a Point Man - New York Times
• Time to Defriend China - Foreign Policy

• Iowa City man fulfills mother's dream, meets with Dalai Lama - Iowa City Press-Citizen
• Dalai Lama in NY visit says Iraq war avoidable - AP
• Scientist inspired by Dalai Lama studies happiness - AP
• Thousands Gather to Hear the Dalai Lama - VOA
• Tibetans-in-exile stage protest rally against '17-point agreement'of 1951 - Sify
• Tibet crackdown breeds more dissent - Asia Times
• Many Faiths, One Truth - New York Times by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Google rolls out encrypted Web search option - CNET

• The Myth of One China - Foreign Policy
• China's grand strategy - Foreign Policy

• 'China has no plans to build dam over Brahmaputra in Tibet' - ET Bureau
• Chinese engineers propose world's biggest hydro-electric project in Tibet - Guardian
• Tibetan leader appeals to Bay Area Asian community for support - Berkeley Voice
• Dalai Lama, Karmapa lead Buddha Purnima celebrations in India - IANS
• "Changing" China fuels Tibet hope - Calcutta Telegraph
• Out-of-Context Quotes Used to Smear Dalai Lama - Barbara's Buddhism Blog
• In last appearance in NYC, Dalai Lama discusses meaning of kinship - CP
• China rakes up Dalai Lama, Tibet with Pratibha Patil - PTI
• China draws Tibet, Taiwan line in strategic dialogue with US - Tibetan Review
• Dharamsala Condemns Tibet Sentences, Urges China for Magnanimity - CTA
• Tibetan gets suspended death sentence for riots - AP
• Lhasa Court sentences one Tibetan to death and five to lengthy prison terms - TCHRD
• CHINA - TIBET Direct, uncensored dialogue between the Dalai Lama and Chinese netizens - Asia News
• Dalai Lama & the Russian Card - The Statesman
• Tibetan poet, writer and blogger Woeser's Skype IDs Hacked - High Peaks Pure Earth
• At a Tibetan precipice: With the Dalai Lama nearly 75, what happens after he dies? - AP