WTN for June 2010

• City of Berkeley hosts Tibet's Prime Minister: middle ground sought - The Examiner
• Meet The King of Tibet - Tonic.com
• Old charge resurfaces against prominent Tibetan - Reuters
• Tibetan Gets Suspended Death Sentence in China - New York Times
• China Bans Court Evidence Gained Through Torture - New York Times
• Challenges of reporting in China - CNN

• Amnesty: G20 frustrating human rights progress - AP
• Hong Kong Police Confiscate Tiananmen Statue - AP
• Tiananmen mothers fear history will die with them - AP

• Mandala Creation Caught On Time Lapse - CNN
• Dalai Lama's Vision for a Healthy, Happy Mind - Huffington Post
• Tibet’s prime minister-in-exile visits Stanford - Standford Daily
• Why does China keep seeking reassurances on Tibet? - South Asian Observer
• Glaciers in Tibet - never really large - Science Centric
• What happens when the Dalai Lama dies? - AP
• Surveillance in Lhasa Hotels - RFA
• China Seeing Dawn of a Labor Movement? - CBS News
• China police rescue slaves from brick kiln - The Times
• Internet claims too testy for China - Asia Times
• Citizen Journalism 'On The Rise' - RFA
• The Beijing Blues - A rising power is plagued by doubts - Newsweek

• A Catholic church in Tibet - Xinhua
• Dalai Lama's message clear, understandable - CHARLIE PEARL
• Tenzin Norzom is Miss Tibet - Hindustan Times
• Tibet will be free, say beauty queens - TNN
• May Tibet Never Be Forgotten - Meditations
• George Schaller: Everyone's Environment - George Schaller
• China seeks, India grants reassurance on Tibet issue - Tibetan Review
• Why does China keep seeking reassurances on Tibet? - Mayank Chhaya
• Some blocked websites now accessible in China - AP
• Labor unrest in China reflects changing demographics, more awareness of rights - Washington Post
• China’s Rebel Blogger (video interview of Han Han) - CNN
• China's censorship could lead to a brain drain - CNN

• Impasse at pass - The shooting of Kelsang Namtso - Economist

• Translations Reveal Tibetan Woman Mystic - RFA
• Quake Critic Arrested - RFA
• Tibetans Protest Over Land - RFA
• HRIC Briefing Note: Tighter Regulation of Foreign Funding Support of Chinese Civil Society Groups - HRIC
• Police Raid Quran Group - RFA
• Sichuan High Court Upholds Five-Year Sentence for Earthquake Activist Tan Zuoren - HRIC
• Remembering Tiananmen Square - RFA
• Google Says West Should Press China On Censorship - NPR
• Freedom Advocate Warns China's Web Censorship Could Spread - VOA

• Tibet in History this Week - Tibetan Review
• Send 'child saint' to school, rules Andhra rights panel - Sify
• Advisory: Dalai Lama’s 75th birthday: Tibet Festival in the Park - Tibetan Commemorative Committee
• Articulation and More - Phayul
• Tibetan Parliament speaker concludes Norway visit - Phayul
• China launches fresh attack on Dalai Lama - India Express
• "Six million Tibetans" Imply a Concept of a "Greater Tibet." Says China - Tibet Post
• Tibet's watershed challenge - Washington Post
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama Japan Visit Schedule - Tibet House Japan
• Aiming for the Highest Office of the Tibetan Government in Exile - Phayul
• Exiled Tibetans to elect PM, parliament - Sify
• China: Drop Charges Against Tibetan Environmental Philanthropist - Human Rights Watch
• EU urges China to release convicted dissident - AP
• The King and Us - New York Times
• Tibet's watershed challenge - Washington Post
• A murder in the shadow of Everest. Why was an innocent Tibetan nun gunned down by Chinese soldiers in the Himalayas? - Daily Mail

• China makes strategic forays into Bangladesh - IANS
• Opinion: China and India: growing together, or set to collide? - Ottawa Citizen
• Opinion: My take on the Dalai Lama of Tibet's World View - ICT
• Lhasa takes the leap - The Nation/Asia News Network
• Dalai Lama's message clear, understandable - The State Journal, Kentucky
• Dalai Lama to visit US, Canada in October - Phayul
• Parliamentary Friends of Tibet (PFT) Canada launches its second Parliamentary Internship Program - Parliamentary Friends of Tibet
• Tibet's human rights issues raised at the 14th session of UN Human Rights Council - CTA
• Voices for Tibet at the UN - ICT
• Clipping the dragon's torturous claws - Gulf News
• Torture in Tibet - Huffington Post
• Janata Dal (United) Supports Tibet Issue says the Party Secretary - CTA
• Dalai Lama joins Indian-Tibetan friendship celebration - Phayul

• Event: Eras festival 2010 - Norwegian Tibet Committee
• Should India's history remain secret? - Claude Arpi
• New Zealand PM urged to raise Tibet on Chinese VP visit - Phayul
• Who is Xi Jinping? - ON LINE Opinion (Australia)
• Poverty figures show Tibetans in absolute minority on own land - Tibetan Review
• China again rejects Dalai Lama's autonomy call - Tibetan Review
• Panchen Lama makes his 'political debut' in Tibet: Report - PTI
• Wary of China, Russia says no to Dalai visit - Times of India
• No visa for Dalai Lama, says Russian Envoy - Phayul
• CTC urges G20 leaders to talk Tibet with Hu - Phayul

• Fierce fighting in Tibet - Deccan Chronicle 50 Years Ago
• New Zealand PM urged to raise Tibet on Chinese VP visit - Phayul
• Unholy Shoes - Phayul
• New cases of Tibetan writers being arrested, attacked in Tibet - Reporters Without Borders
• Tibetan Writers Brutally Beaten by Chinese Authorities - Tibet Post
• The reality of the 'China Fantasy' - Foreign Policy Blog
• Sisters Visit Jailed Monk - RFA
• China bans court evidence obtained by torture - AP
• Discussion on Water and Climate Change - ITCO
• Tibetans and Tibet groups worldwide call for a retrial for Tenzin Delek Rinpoche - Tibet Society
• His Holiness leaves for Japan visit - CTA
• No Official Welcome For The Dalai Lama - WSJ
• It's time to put Tibet on G8 agenda - Straight.com

• Doc ethics questioned in 'Zanskar' - Toronto Sun
• Doc ethics questioned in 'Zanskar' - Toronto Sun
• Is Chinese threat to India real? - The News
• Sherlock Holmes returns - from Nepal - Sify
• A world without Dalai Lama - Washington Times
• The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet's Struggle for Freedom - San Francisco Chronicle
• NZ lawmaker clashes with Chinese security - Reuters
• Prime Minister of Tibetan government-in-exile in Sikkim - PTI
• Woeser on Mining in Tibet - Tibet Custom
• China-Style Security Doesn't Travel Well - WSJ
• The Indo-US Strategic Dialogue: Restoring Faith In The Partnership? - Eurasia Review
• Family traces detained kin in Drapchi - Phayul
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama warmly received in Tokyo - CTA
• Rights Sites Under Attack - RFA
• NZ lawmaker claims Chinese security attacked him - AP
• China now pressuring Tibetans outside politics - AP
• Tibet documentary draws Chinese rebuke - San Francisco Chronicle

• A leader. A teacher. An inspiration VisionTV presents: The Dalai Lama - a 75th Birthday Tribute, starting July 6 - Vision TV
• Publication of memoir justifying the Tiananmen Square massacre stopped - Tibetan Review
• China puts on hold trial of Tibet environmentalist - AP
• Security review after Norman protest - NZPA
• Zenkoji gifts Dalai Lama a Buddha statue - Phayul
• Dalai Lama asks Japanese priests to produce Buddhist scientists - Phayul
• Spy for Tibet finds karma in Tennessee -- As told to Henry Hamman - Financial Times
• How China manipulates media - New Indian Express
• Pelosi calls for peaceful future for Tibetan refugees - Phayul
• Tibetans perform at ERAS festival in Oslo - Norwegian Tibet Committee
• Chinese nitpicking on Tibetan democracy - Tibet Sun
• Dalai Lama Won't Seek Talks That Would `Inconvenience' Japan's Government - Bloomberg
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Japan - Tibet House Japan
• The Dalai Lama on violence - Guardian
• China’s Take on New Zealand Scuffle - WSJ
• Only in China: "Adjudication Committees" Serve Judicial System - Dui Hua Foundation
• Security Tops the Environment in China’s Energy Plan - New York Times
• Tibet Mineral to Raise Up to 1.5 Billion Yuan in Private Placing - Bloomberg

• Film: The Sun Behind the Clouds Makes Arizona Premiere in Sedona Arizona - Gateway to Sedona (USA)
• China's regulations to weed out user-generated maps - ZDNet Asia
• The Dalai Lama: "Son of India" Followed by a Squad of "Grandsons of India" - China Radio Internaional
• Trouble in India's Shangri-La - Asia Times
• China now pressuring Tibetans outside politics - AP
• Tibet: China: 30 Tibetans arrested for protesting against mining - Asia News
• Tibetan environmentalist says Chinese jailers tortured him - Guardian
• Why I Was Attacked By Chinese Security Guards - Voxy News
• Freedom or disrespect? Norman's protest debated - NZ Hearald
• Dalai Lama says many Buddhist texts yet to be translated in Japan - Phayul
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama Japan Visit - Day 5 - Tibet House Japan
• Tape Reveals Embassy Footing Bill for Hu Jintao's Welcome Rally - Epoch Times
• Canada-China: Hu visit caps a triumphant rise in relations - Embassy (Canada)
• A new step in restoring Sino-Canadian relations - Canwest News Service
• Canadian PM to put human rights on top of agenda with Hu - Phayul

• Books: "Soliloquy in Tibet" - Northwest Asian Weekly
• Chinese army at border - Deccan Chronicle 50 Years Ago
• New Tibetan Political Journal Launched - TibetanPoliticalReview.org
• Detained Tibetan's wife details grim torture - Sify
• Future Connector: Namgyal Lhagyari - CNN
• World parliamentarians' group urge G20 leaders to act on Tibet - Phayul
• Tibetans Fear a Broader Crackdown - New York Times
• "Praying" - A Blogpost by Dolkar Tso, Wife of Karma Samdrup - High Peaks Pure Earth
• Karma Samdrup's Trial Tests China's New Regulations To Halt Torture - CTA
• Fear overshadows Tibetan mindset as Samdrup's trial awaits justice - One India
• Tibetan activist sentenced to 15 years in prison - AP
• Fears for three environmentalist brothers as 'gaunt' Karma Samdrup on trial after torture - ICT
• His Holiness in Japan - 7th Day - Tibet House Japan

• How Chinese Regime Manufactures and Manipulates False News - Epoch TImes
• China rewrites history of Korean War - The Telegraph
• China builds oxygen-rich barracks for soldiers in Tibet mountains - Times of India
• Funeral Games* -- Jamyang Norbu - Shadow Tibet
• Peaceful protest by Parkdale's Tibetan community - Inside Toronto
• US regrets jail sentence on Tibetan environment activist: report - Phayul
• Rangzen Alliance, Switzerland -- Jamyang Norbu - Shadow Tibet
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama shines light on spiritual harmony - CTA
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama Japan Visit - 9th and 10th Day - Tibet House Japan

• Tibet in History this Week - Tibetan Review
• Tibetan exiles Celebrate Karmapa's 26th Birthday in India - Tibet Post International
• Obama invites China's Hu for state visit - Reuters
• Presidential Office rejects Dalai Lama's criticism - Taipei Times
• China: EU Should Demand Concrete Progress on Rights in Dialogue - HRW
• Help Needed: 2010 March for Tibet's Independence - International Tibet Independence Movement
• Philadelphia to DC "March for Tibet's Independence" - International Tibet Independence Movement
• Hundreds of Tibetans and their Supporters Participate in the G20 Protest - Tibet Post International
• Tibetan cultural figures 'detained after protests' - BBC
• Dalai Lama: Respecting Tibetan Rights Key to Compassionate China - Phayul
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Japan 11th Day - Tibet House Japan
• 'Mental Torture' Alleged - RFA
• Tibetan Activist on Trial - RFA
• Tibetans Held After Protest - RFA
• Squeezed between China and West over Tibet - myrepublica.com
• Nepal tries to send refugee children back to Tibet: ICT - AFP
• Tibetan cultural figures 'detained after protests' - BBC
• China jails Tibet environmentalist Karma Samdrup - BBC