Hundreds of Tibetans are being rounded up and detained in Lhasa and armed paramilitary groups are patrolling the streets in advance of the anniversary of fatal riots in 2008, The Times has learnt. Authorities are anxious to avoid a repeat of the anti-Chinese attacks, in which about 20 people were killed when Tibetans rampaged through the city, setting fire to shops and offices.

Nell’anniversario della rivolta di Lhasa il Ven. Lobsang Tenzin Choekyi Gyaltsen ha incontrato nell’Aula Magna del Liceo Gioberti gli studenti medi torinesi per spiegare le ragioni della lotta per l’indipendenza del Tibet.Nel corso del suo soggiorno a Torino il Rinpoche ha voluto anche visitare la sede della CISL Piemonte e discutere con i dirigenti del sindacato piemontese ,dell’ISCOS e dell’ANOLF,delle prospettive della lotta di liberazione del popolo tibetano.

Vedi anche articolo apparso su Wokar (in tibetano)

China has tightened security in its Tibet Autonomous Region ahead of Wednesday's anniversary of a Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule, reports said. "In recent days, there are police officers on the street 24 hours and the police will check everyone from outside Tibet," a receptionist at the Xueyu Hotel in the regional capital Lhasa told the German Press Agency dpa by telephone."If you want to travel here, you'd better come after March," he said.March 10 marks the 51st anniversary of an unsuccessful Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule.

Ahead of expected protests during the 51st Tibetan National Uprising Day on Mar 10, Police in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu have taken into custody on Mar 7 Mr Thinley Gyatso, the Dalai Lama’s representative there, reported the Times of India Online Mar 7.The detention was seen as a bid by Nepal, under relentless pressure from China, to prevent anti-China demonstrations in the country on the day observed by Tibetans worldwide as their national uprising day against Chinese occupation rule.Getting Nepal to crackdown on Tibetans protesting against China and strengthening the border security to preven

GUANGDONG--For more than two years, the Guangzhou police have harassed the house church believers of Liangren Church for their faith. In the boldest strike since last September, a mixed band of plain-clothed and uniformed PSB officers barged into the local restaurant at 3:20 PM on March 4, 2010, where Liangren Church Head Pastor Wang Dao was meeting with twelve brothers and sisters for a meal. According to eye-witnesses in the restaurant, the policemen threw Pastor Wang violently to the ground, without showing their ID badges or any official documentation.

Rare court papers also show jailing of a Tibetan monk.
KATHMANDU—Authorities in a Tibetan area of western China have sent a local singer to prison after he recorded and distributed CDs of songs protesting Chinese rule over Tibetans, according to legal documents made available to Radio Free Asia (RFA).In the first of two judicial documents recently smuggled out of China, Tashi Dhondup, 30, was sentenced by the Malho [in Chinese, Huangnan] municipal re-education through labor committee to 15 months’ “re-education through labor.”The sentence did not require a court trial.

This is a considerably revised and expanded version of the document, Losar Gift for Rangzen Activists, that I posted on Feb 25, 2009. This version has new information and illustrations.Last year when I was in India I gave a talk and powerpoint presentation based on this essay at a number of Tibetan schools and centers.I am happy to report that everyone was uplifted and energized by the sheer volume of indisputable facts substantiating Tibetan independence.
See : http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2010/03/04/independent-tibe...

Experts in China have warned that the gap in income between rural and urban residents in the country last year was the widest since the launch of reform in 1978. Think tank researchers have warned the gap will continue to widen in the coming years if effective measures to narrow the difference are not implemented soon, reported China’ official China Daily newspaper Mar 2.

China said Feb 28 that more and more of its major economic provinces were as rich as a country, with the gross domestic product (GDP) of Guangdong Province exceeding that of Saudi Arabia, Argentina and South Africa and ranking 16th in the G20. The Global Times, the international edition of People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party of China, said Mar 1 the GDP of some other provinces, including Jiangsu, Shandong and Zhejiang, exceeded that of some G20 countries.

HONG KONG—Authorities in the Chinese capital are stepping up surveillance of key dissidents and detaining petitioners ahead of two annual parliamentary meetings that begin in Beijing this week.