'Arab Spring is coming to China,' John McCain tells Chinese Foreign Minister
[Sunday,05 February 2012, Reuters]
U.S. Senator John McCain warned China's Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun on Saturday that "the Arab Spring is coming to China" and highlighted the number of Tibetans burning themselves to death in his country.Zhang, speaking with McCain on a panel at the high-level Munich security conference, dismissed his comments about a looming Chinese Arab Spring as "no more than fantasy"...

Three Tibetans self-immolate in western China
[Sunday,05 February 2012, Reuters]
Three Tibetans in southwestern   China have set themselves ablaze in protest against Chinese rule, Radio Free Asia reported, the latest in a series of self-immolations over the past year. The three set themselves on fire on Friday in Seda county, known as Serthar in Tibetan, in Sichuan province, calling for freedom for Tibet and the return of exiled Tibetan spiritual leader...

China gets restive taste of post-Dalai Lama era
[Friday,03 February 2012, Reuters]
China over the years has derided the Dalai Lama as a jackal in Buddhist robes, choreographer of a separatist Peking opera and, lately, instigator of a plot that led some Tibetans to set themselves on fire and other forms of protest. Even so, China's hardline rulers may have reason to miss him when he's gone...

China cut off internet in area of Tibetan unrest
[Friday,03 February 2012, Guardian.co.uk]
Chinese officials cut off mobile phone and internet connections to areas where Tibetans were shot dead amid unrest last month, state media has reported. Officials say security forces fired in self-defence after mobs of rioters attacked police and official buildings in the south-western province of Sichuan, resulting in two deaths...

Photos of Tibet crackdown emerge from scene of recent shooting
[Friday,03 February 2012, ICT]
Vivid images have emerged from Tibet of a violent police response to a protest by Tibetans in Serthar (Chinese: Seda), Sichuan (the Tibetan area of Kham), on January 24. The images, which show a Tibetan man being beaten and dragged along the ground by armed police...

100 Tibetan Protesters Held
[Thursday,02 February 2012, RFA]
More than a week after the protests in a troubled Chinese province, news surfaces about the number detained. More than 100 Tibetan protesters who fled the scene of a shooting last week by Chinese police have been taken into custody together with an unknown number of those wounded in the gunfire, according to Tibetan sources...

US Senators introduce resolution in Congress on Tibet
[Thursday,02 February 2012, PTI]
Voicing serious concern over the deteriorating situation in Tibet, six top American Senators have introduced a resolution in the US Congress asking China to suspend implementation of religious control regulations and immediately start a dialogue with the Dalai Lama...