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The article reports on the self-immolation in Tibet which has reached to 100 in the death of 37-year-old Tibetan Buddhist monk Lobsang Namgyal who killed himself through self-burning to protest the Chinese rule in China.

The article reports on the self-immolations approach of ninety-nine Tibetans, who burned themselves to protest Chinese rule in Tibet, China.

NEW DELHI -- Tibet's exiled government announced the election of a Harvard legal scholar as its new prime minister on Wednesday, a choice signaling a generational shift within the Tibetan movement as the Dalai Lama moves to relinquish political power. The scholar, Lobsang Sangay, 42, received 55 percent of the roughly 50,000 votes cast by Tibetans scattered around the world. He defeated two other candidates and though his political vision is not yet fully known, he is expected to play a major role in shaping, and possibly sharpening, the political strategy of Tibetan exiles toward China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chinese officials and emissaries of the Dalai Lama are expected to resume talks on Friday about the future of Tibet despite low expectations for a breakthrough and growing disillusionment among exiled Tibetans over the halting diplomatic process. Thubten Samphel, a spokesman for the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamsala, India, confirmed that two senior envoys left New Delhi on Thursday for a five-day trip to Beijing. He said the Chinese had not provided a schedule but predicted that talks would begin on Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

China agreed Thursday to hold another round of discussions with envoys of the Dalai Lama before the end of the year, but officials declined to say if the two sides made any progress after the negotiations that ended this week. Tibetan envoys left Beijing on Thursday after two days of private meetings and planned to brief the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India, home of the Tibetan government in exile. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Chinese officials and senior envoys of the Dalai Lama opened their latest round of negotiations over Tibet on Tuesday, as international pressure for a breakthrough intensifies ahead of the Olympic Games. The discussions, held at an undisclosed location in Beijing, are the second round of formal talks since March, when anti-Chinese protests erupted in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, and spread to Tibetan regions of western China. The precise agenda is unknown, but the two sides have sharp differences over the political status of Tibet and the possible return of the exiled Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Hu Jintao on Saturday defended China's crackdown against the recent Tibetan protests as a necessary response to protect national sovereignty and described the demonstrations as violent crimes orchestrated by the Dalai Lama. ''No responsible government will sit idle for such crimes, which gravely encroach human rights, gravely disrupt social order and gravely jeopardize the life and property security of the masses,'' said Mr. Hu, according to Xinhua, the government's official news agency. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Tibet will be reopened to tourists on May 1, a decision announced Thursday even as authorities showed no sign of lifting restrictions preventing foreign journalists from freely visiting Tibet and other Tibetan regions in western China to report on episodes of ethnic unrest. Meanwhile, Communist Party officials in Tibet plan trials this month for people arrested in the violence. Wang Xiangming, a deputy Communist Party secretary in Lhasa, the capital, said more than 1,200 people would be prosecuted, according to accounts in the Chinese and Hong Kong news media. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Like so many Chinese, Meng Huizhong was horrified by the violent Tibetan protests in Lhasa. She cringed at videos of Tibetan rioters attacking a Chinese motorcyclist. Her anger deepened as Tibet dominated her online conversation groups, until it settled on what might seem like an unlikely target: the Communist Party. ''We couldn't believe our government was being so weak and cowardly,'' said Ms. Meng, 52, an office worker, who was appalled that the authorities had failed to initially douse the violence. ''The Dalai Lama is trying to separate China, and it is not acceptable at all. We must crack down on the rioters.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

China called on Tuesday for an international investigation of the Dalai Lama, accusing him of masterminding the violent Tibetan protests spreading across China, but the Tibetan religious leader denied those claims and invited observers to scour his office. The Dalai Lama said he remained committed to only nonviolent demonstrations and condemned the violence that had erupted from the Tibetan protests. He said violence was ''suicidal'' for the Tibetan cause and threatened to resign his political post as leader of Tibet's government-in-exile ''if things become out of control.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Chinese leaders have blamed ''splittists'' led by the exiled Dalai Lama for spurring violent protests in Tibet and orchestrating a public relations sneak attack on the Communist Party, as they gear up to play host to the Olympics Games this summer. But to many Tibetans and their sympathizers, the weeklong uprising against Chinese rule in Lhasa reflects years of simmering resentment over Beijing's interference in Buddhist religious rites, its tightened political control and the destruction of the environment across the Himalayan territory the Tibetans consider sacred. If there is a surprise, it may be that Beijing has managed to keep things stable for so long. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Violence erupted Friday morning in a busy market area of the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, as Buddhist monks and other ethnic Tibetans brawled with Chinese security forces in bloody clashes. Witnesses said angry Tibetan crowds burned shops, cars, military vehicles and at least one tourist bus. State media said at least 10 people died. The chaotic scene was the latest, and most violent, confrontation in a series of protests that began on Monday and now represent a major challenge to the ruling Communist Party as it prepares to play host to the Olympic Games in August. By Saturday morning, Chinese armored vehicles were reportedly patrolling the center of the city. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on the plan by the government of Tibet, China to move the villagers from Boronggang due to the growing exposure to Kashin-Beck disease or Big Bone disease in October 2003.

Discusses the influence of Chinese popular culture on Tibet. Consideration of how China overtook the government of Tibet in 1950; Goals of the Chinese Communist government to reshape the agrarian economy in Tibet; Division between Tibetan and Chinese people in society; Economic activity in Tibet; How the influx of Chinese people affects both cultures.

The Dalai Lama accused China on Sunday of waging ''cultural genocide'' against his followers in Tibet and called for an international inquiry into the suppression of protests there, his strongest defense to date of Tibetan Buddhists who have staged an uprising against Chinese rule. Speaking at the headquarters of the Tibetan government in exile, the Dalai Lama endorsed the right of his people to press grievances peacefully against the Chinese authorities, and said he would not ask Tibetans to surrender to Chinese military police by midnight on Monday, as Beijing has demanded. He said that he had no moral authority to do so and that Tibetans had beseeched him not to capitulate to that demand. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]