Pelosi talks Tibet with China’s leaders

October 6th, 2009 Obama postpones meeting with Dalai LamaWASHINGTON — A decision by Barack Obama to postpone his first meeting as president with the Dalai Lama is overshadowing a visit to Washington this week by the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet's Buddhists. The Dalai Lama arrived Monday in Washington and will be received by prominent lawmakers and the U.S.

October 6th, 2009 Dalai Lama receives rights awardWASHINGTON — Powerful U.S. lawmakers honored the Dalai Lama with a human rights award Tuesday even as President Barack Obama faced harsh criticism for delaying a meeting with the exiled Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader.

October 1st, 2009 KATHMANDU - Under pressure from Beijing to prevent protests by Tibetan refugees on China's 60th anniversary celebrations, Nepal Thursday began rounding up Tibetans here and sending them to detention centres. As the crackdown started on refugee leaders suspected of leading anti-China protests in the past, police arrested 45 Tibetans from different parts of the capital.

July 28th, 2009 WARSAW - Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama Tuesday visited the Warsaw Uprising museum and praised Poles' love of freedom in their fight against the Nazi German occupation during World War II. In a visit coming just ahead of the 65th anniversary of the start of the uprising on Aug 1, 1944, the Dalai Lama said the museum exhibition showed how bitter the fighting had been.

July 24th, 2009 LHASA - The Tibetan Autonomous Region in southwest China Friday saw a record high temperature of 30.4 degrees Celsius since the meteorological department began recording data in 1951, officials said. Lhasa, the main city of the region, with an altitude of 3,650 meters above the sea level, recorded a temperature of 29.9 degrees Celsius Thursday, reaching the previous record set on June 15, 1998, the Tibet Meteorological Station said.

March 30th, 2009 BEIJING - China and the European Union plan to patch up recent turbulence over Tibet and deepen their cooperation this year to tackle global problems, a top EU diplomat said Monday. 'The moment has come to look forward,' EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said after talks with Chinese officials in Beijing.

March 16th, 2009 BEIJING - The 11th Panchen Lama Gyaincain Norbu, the state-appointed Tibetan Buddhist leader, Sunday called on the Tibetans to support the Communist Party leadership of China to 'achieve progress and bright future'. 'People living in Tibet should cherish the prosperity and happy lives today,' the Panchen Lama said while visiting a government-sponsored exhibition in Beijing depicting economic and social progress that Tibet has achieved in the past five decades.

March 14th, 2009 BEIJING/DHARAMSALA - Talks between China and the Dalai Lama may continue if the Tibetan leader is 'sincere', Premier Wen Jiabao said Friday. An aide of the Dalai Lama responded that the Tibetans were 'still open to have face-to-face dialogue'.

March 13th, 2009 BEIJING - Talks between the Chinese government and the Dalai Lama over Tibet may continue if he is 'sincere', Premier Wen Jiabao said here Friday. 'Tibet is an inalienable part of China and issues related to Tibet are China's internal affairs which should not be interfered by foreign countries,' Wen told reporters at a press conference after the National People's Congress (NPC) closed its annual session.

March 11th, 2009 BEIJING - When Herge's 'Adventures of Tintin' spread from Belgium across Europe in the 1960s, Tintin's fictional travels in Tibet featured in one of the most popular strip-cartoon stories. So influential was 'Tintin in Tibet' that in June 2006 it won the International Campaign for Tibet's Light of Truth award, presented by the Dalai Lama, for its 'significant contribution to the public understanding of Tibet'.

March 9th, 2009 BEIJING - China's repression of Tibetans' political, civil and religious rights in response to last year's unrest has reached levels last seen in the 1970s, the International Campaign for Tibet said in a report Monday. 'Since the protests began on March 10 last year, state repression of Tibetans' freedoms of expression, religion and association has intensified to a level not seen in Tibet since the paranoia and Maoist excesses of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76),' the London-based group said.

March 9th, 2009 BEIJING - The question of Tibet's autonomy has been a bone of contention for decades. The following are important dates in modern Tibetan history: 1912 - Chinese troops expelled from Lhasa after the fall of the Qing Dynasty in Beijing.

March 7th, 2009 BEIJING - Two Tibetan women were arrested for staging separate protests that were critical of China in the Chinese province of Sichuan, an advocacy group for Tibet said Saturday. A nun in her 20s and a 36-year-old woman were detained Thursday in Ganzi after handing out pamphlets that called for the exiled Dalai Lama's return to Tibet, respect for Tibetans' human rights, religious freedom and the release of Tibetan political prisoners, the International Campaign for Tibet said.

March 6th, 2009 BEIJING - China has placed Tibet under 'de facto martial law' ahead of the 50th anniversary of the uprising against Chinese rule March 10, 1959, activists said Friday. The troop presence was to prevent protests like those that swept across Lhasa and other Tibetan regions last year, the London-based Free Tibet Campaign said.

March 2nd, 2009 BEIJING - The Chinese government has reiterated its claim on Tibet and said the region would not be granted independence or autonomy, a report published Monday said. The document, published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of democratic reforms in the region, said 'granting independence to Tibet is impossible', adding 'semi-independence or attempts to free Tibet using the term of high-level autonomy is also impossible'.