WTN for August 2011

• Vancouver Tibet Festival - A benefit for the Canadian Tibetan Resettlement Project - Common Ground
• Canada must stick to the issues with China - Times Colonist

• Two Monks of Kirti Monastery Get 3 Years Imprisonment - TibetNet
• Arrested Histories: Tiibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War. - China Quarterly
• 4 luxury vehicles seized from Tibetan monastery - TNS
• China-Based Spies Said to Be Behind Hacking of IMF Computers - Bloomberg
• State Paper Disbands Investigative Unit - RFA
• UNWTO and China open third observatory for sustainable tourism development - UNWTO
• Chinese media defy censors to attack government on crash - Tibet
• 'Grandpa Wen' left helpless as internet drives wave of unrest through China - Telegraph

• China launches new airline for restive Tibet - Reuters
• A Young Tibetan Lama Prepares for a Greater Role - New York Times
• Why Can’t the Dalai Lama visit Russia? - VOA
• Tibetans Gather To Promote Values - RFA

• China will implode if it doesn't change its authoritarian ways - UK Observer
• Water Panic in Sichuan - RFA
• Freedom of opinion and expression – how far the protections go: the UN Human Rights Committee - UN Human Rights Committee
• China struggles to censor train crash coverage - BBC News
• China jailing Liu Xiaobo broke international law: UN - AFP
• Dalai Lama Montreal bound - Suburban

• Statement of the outgoing Kalon Tripa Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche on the oath-taking ceremony of the new Kalon Tripa - Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche
• Inaugural speech of Kalon Tripa Dr. Lobsang Sangay - Lobsang Sangay
• Tibet: Authorities Defied As Tibetans Promote Cultural Security - RFA
• US, India hit by biggest-ever cyber attacks - Reuters
• Death on the Silk Route: Violence in Xinjiang - BBC
• Fear stalks Chinese residents in Kashgar - Reuters

• Canada Expresses Concern about the Treatment of Tibetans in Nepal - Department of Foreign Affairs, Canada
• Three Young Boys Arrested In Kardze County - TCHRD
• INPaT Co-Chair to attend Kalon Tripa Oath Ceremony - INPaT
• Address rights in Constitution: Tibetans to Nepal - IANS
• Nepal arrests Dalai Lama's new envoy in Nepal - TNN
• India plans to counter China’s border threat - Phayul
• Lech Walesa to new Prime Minister of Central Tibetan Administration - Lech Walesa

• China: End Violence and Restrictions In Uighur Muslim Areas - U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
• Tibet Society welcomes inauguration of first secular head of Tibetan government in exile - Tibet Society (UK)
• Members of US Congress congratulate Lobsang Sangay on occasion of his inauguration as democratically elected leader - US Congress
• "Victory Will Be Ours:" New Tibetan Leader Lobsang Sangay - Tibet Post
• For a Democratic Future, Try Non-Violence - Tibet Justice Center
• Chamdo Three Rivers Area: 25 Hydropower Stations to be Built - China Tibet News
• Ai Weiwei resumes China criticism in Twitter messages - BBC

• 50-member China team to visit Nepal - Indian Express
• Only one Finnish minister likely to meet with Dalai Lama - Helsingin Sonomat
• Video - Kalon Tripa Inauguration - Dharamsala - 8 August 2011 - Tibet
• Video - Lobsang Sangay on What's Next for Tibet - Asia Society
• Chinese government imposes visit of its Panchen Lama on Tibetans: Troops surround Labrang Monastery - ICT
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrives in Geneva, Switzerland - Tibet Office (Geneva)
• Using social media to promote human rights - OHCHR
• China’s Chosen Lama Visits Monastery Town - New York Times
• A Tibetan Dies As a Result of Severe Torture During Imprisonment - TCHRD
• Exile PM Draws Support in Tibet - RFA
• Tibetan Exiles Say Secular Politics Will Produce Livelier Democracy - Voice of America
• Video - Dr Lobsang Sangay sworn in as 3rd Kalon Tripa (in Tibetan) - RFA
• China Says it was Hit by 500,000 Cyberattacks - Voice of America
• China's Pollution Nightmare - RFA

• Protests force Chinese factory to close - Financial Times
• Meet the heir to the Dalai Lama - Globe & Mail
• China train crash: Design flaws to blame - safety chief - BBC
• China: Biden Should Keep Up ‘Straightforward’ Talk on Rights - Human Rights Watch
• Tsewang Norbu from Kham Tawu, Tibet, set himself ablaze calling for Freedom; Tibetan NGOs in Dharamsala hold candle light vigil - Tibet
• Second monk dies after setting himself on fire in protest in Tibet - Free Tibet
• Undermining the Dalai Lama at Tibet’s 60th bash - DNA

• Second Tibetan Monk Burns Himself to Death in Protest - New York Times
• Why China’s leaders respond to nimbyism - Financial Times
• Tension Heightens in Tawu With Heavy Troops and Restrictions - TCHRD
• Protest Over Chemical Plant Shows Growing Pressure on China From Citizens - New York Times
• Tibetan Nomads Reluctantly Eye Another Way of Life in Summer Pasture - Village Voice
• China's heavy hand in Kathmandu: Tibetans detained in advance of Zhou Yongkang visit - ICT
• China News Digest - India's Institute of Defence and Strategic Analysis
• The Myth of Socialist Paradise - New York Times

• Canadian diplomatic trips to China accomplished little, U.S. ambassador says - Globe & Mail
• President Ilves Meets Dalai Lama - VOA
• Beyond the Dalai Lama: Profiles of Four Tibetan Lamas-in-Exile - TIME
• China to build water projects in Tibet - HydroWorld
• Beijing to Subsidize Conservation of Tibet's Grassland - VOA
• TWA trains Burmese activists in Thailand on ‘Democracy and Elections’ - Tibetan Women’s Association
• "A Cup, Something More and a 13th Meaning" - Friends of Tibet

• A bizarre project in Nepal - Economist
• A Swan Song in Sudan and Libya for China's "Non-Interference" Principle - China Brief
• Three Tibetans In Tawu Arrested - TCHRD
• Monk Jigme Guri Arrested Again - TCHRD
• U.S. scholars say their book on China led to travel ban - Washington Post
• China’s ‘Liberation’ of Tibet: Rules of the Game - New York Times