Ladies and Gentlemen:
My heartfelt thanks to the International Women’s Media Foundation for its Courage in Journalism Award.  Since the Chinese government will not give me a passport, I am unable to come and accept this …

今年4月，我收到国际妇女传媒基金会的邮件，通知将授予我2010年的“新闻勇气奖”。这是国际上一项重要的奖项，正如来信中写到：“每一年基金会都会给世界上三名杰出的女性记者发奖，以表彰她们在困难和危险情况下，忠于职守的非凡毅力和决心。……如同你一样，得到这个奖项的勇敢女性们，往往冒着生命和事业的危险来捍卫自由、民主和人权。”而在举行颁奖仪式之际，我将获奖致辞公布于此：
感谢国际妇女传媒基金会授予我“新闻勇气奖”。因为中国政府不给我护照，我无法前来接受这光荣的奖项，但我的心灵是封锁不住的，此刻正与你们在一起，感受来自你们的温暖和鼓励。

According to Article 10 of the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Regional National Autonomy — “The organs of self-government of national autonomous areas shall guarantee the freedom of the nationalities in these …

མཚོ་སྔོན་ཞིང་ཆེན་སྲིད་གཞུང་དང་སློབ་གསོ་ཐུན།

Thanks to Lobsang Sangay la and Jamyang Norbu la, the Kalon Tripa race has its first Sarah Palin incident.  Palin, of course, is the defeated 2008 U.S. vice presidential candidate who supposedly said she had …

(TibetanReview.net, Oct20, 2010)  China on Oct 19 marked the 60th anniversary of its annexation of Chamdo, the capital of eastern Tibet, with among other things, an exhibition visited by about 1000 people …

Readers must forgive me for nit picking, but the term “kalon-tripa”, literally “the enthroned minister” bothers me. It doesn’t exactly sit well (no pun intended) in a democratic system. Thrones might be okay, these day, …

A week ago Lobsang Sangay la called me on the telephone and expressed his objection to my piece which in large part dealt with his candidacy. Lobsang la told me that he did not remember …

I have received some mild censure of late from friends and readers for my lack of enthusiasm for the upcoming kalon-tripa election. I did  explain my position earlier in a number of my …

CTA’s response to Jamyang Norbu’s post on the controversial statement made by the PM is rather puzzling. Not the faintest argument is provided, not even an attempt to deny Norbu’s analysis. The reader is instead …