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Who Benefits From a Luxury Hotel in Tibet?

Eleanor Byrne-Rosengren | Posted 13.06.2013 | UK
Eleanor Byrne-Rosengren

The InterContinental Resort Lhasa Paradise will be marketed on the back of a peaceful, unspoiled land and an ancient, spiritual culture. That will doubtless attract the tourists - it also benefits the regime that has occupied and oppressed Tibet for more than 60 years.

Ned Simons

David Cameron 'Not Banned' From China Downing Street Insists

HuffingtonPost.com | Ned Simons | Posted 07.05.2013 | UK Politics

David Cameron has not been banned from China as punishment for meeting the Dalai Lama and aims to visit Beijing before the end of the year, Downing St...

Keeping the Flame Alive - The Forbidden Team's Story

Bhargab Sarmah | Posted 30.05.2013 | UK Sport
Bhargab Sarmah

Independence for Tibetans is nowhere near; yet, the beautiful game has, in many ways, helped in keeping the flame alive. May Tibetan football continue its upward rise.

Cameron's Di-Lama: PM 'Banned Ministers From Lunch With Dalai Lama'

The Huffington Post UK | Dina Rickman | Posted 04.12.2012 | UK

Lunch with the Dalai Lama was off the menu for ministers earlier this year after David Cameron slapped a last-minute ban on for MPs planning on meetin...

A Short Journey to the Roof of the World

Richard Cashman | Posted 04.12.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Richard Cashman

In Nepal I'd spent a lot of time sat by the mirrored lake in Pokhara consulting pebbles and reading Heinrich Harrer's Seven Years in Tibet

How Good is an Idea?

James Dunn | Posted 13.11.2012 | UK Universities & Education
James Dunn

A charity by graduates for graduates. I want every aspect of the whole charity to be done by recent graduates from its foundations to its day to day working. If I can help any graduate gain experience I will, whatever help I can give to stop people having to go through what I went through.

'King Of Romance Humperdinck To Perform At Dalai Lama Love Concert

PA | Posted 09.09.2012 | UK Entertainment

Music veteran and Eurovision legend Engelbert Humperdinck has been chosen to perform for Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. The 76-year-old h...

Younghusband: Imperial Amnesia Confronts the Tibetan 'Shangri-La'

Adele Wilde-Blavatsky | Posted 21.10.2012 | Home
Adele Wilde-Blavatsky

We are at the beginning of a personal journey about the haunting presence of the legacy bequeathed to us by our ancestors and our resultant 'identity'. Like the Buddhist journey of recognising the illusory ego as the enemy within, this is a tale about confronting ghosts.

HH The Dalai Lama in UK as Self-Immolations Amongst Tibetan Nomads Rise

Joanna Eede | Posted 22.08.2012 | UK
Joanna Eede

Tibet's spiritual leader, HH The Dalai Lama is in Scotland today amid growing concern over the rise of self-immolation amongst Tibetan nomads.

'Happy Oxford Days Got Me Through House Arrest' Reflects Suu Kyi

PA | Posted 20.06.2012 | UK Universities & Education

Aung San Suu Kyi has told how happy memories of life at Oxford University had sustained her years under house arrest in Burma. Thoughts of sunny da...

Lucy Sherriff

WATCH: 'Our Hope Rests On The 21st Century Generation' Says The Dalai Lama

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 20.06.2012 | UK

The Dalai Lama has told young people they are the "force of our hope" and we should put aside our artificial differences and realise we are "all the s...

Suu Kyi Honoured By Former University

PA | Posted 20.06.2012 | UK Universities & Education

Aung San Suu Kyi was "hailed with joy" by her former university on Wednesday, as she returned to Oxford to receive an honorary doctorate. The Burme...

Dalai Lama To Appear With Russell Brand

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 15.06.2012 | UK

The Dalai Lama begins a national tour of the UK on Friday which will see the Tibetan spiritual leader appear alongside no other than comedian Russell ...

Dalai Lama Leeds Visit Prompts Olympic Pull-out Threats From China

PA | Posted 13.06.2012 | UK

Chinese officials have threatened to pull the country's Olympic athletes out of their training camp in Leeds due to a scheduled visit by the Dalai Lam...

Dalai Lama, Templeton Prize Winner, Speaks To Arianna Huffington About Sleep, Training The Mind And Compassion (VIDEO)

Posted 14.05.2012 | UK

Tibetan Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, has told how training the mind, sleep and maintaining good emotional health can benefit society as a whole. ...

LOOK: Tibet Police Train With Giant Logs And Fire Hoses

Huffington Post UK | Posted 19.06.2012 | UK

You might think yearly physicals for British police sound hard. The armed police in Tibet probably wouldn't see it that way. A set of pictures ...

PICTURES: Wounded Ex-Servicemen Prepare For Everest Climb

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 06.04.2012 | UK

The Walking With The Wounded team rested on Good Friday as they prepared to spend the next seven weeks living in tents. However the five injured so...

Funeral For Tibetan Protester Jamphel Yeshi Who Died After Setting Himself On Fire In India (PICTURES)

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 30.03.2012 | UK

The funeral for an exiled Tibetan protester who set himself on fire in protest at a visit from the Chinese president to India takes place today. J...

Tibetan Activist Dies After Setting Himself Alight

Posted 28.03.2012 | UK

An exiled Tibetan protester who set himself on fire in protest at a visit from the Chinese president to India on Monday has died in hospital. The p...

Can a Buddhist Master be a Political Activist? Tibetan Hunger Strike Hero Says Yes!

Adele Wilde-Blavatsky | Posted 26.05.2012 | UK
Adele Wilde-Blavatsky

Self-immolations and hunger strikes are very distressing forms of political protest but they have been successful in putting Tibet back into the mainstream media and at visibly showing the collective pain and suffering of the Tibetan people.

Tibetan Self-Immolates Ahead Of Chinese President's Visit

The Huffington Post UK | Charlie Lindlar | Posted 26.03.2012 | UK

A Tibetan has set fire to himself in protest over the ownership of the Tibet region in New Delhi, India, ahead of a visit by Chinese president Hu Jint...

Tibetans Demand Facebook Add Their Country To Check-In

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 14.03.2012 | UK Tech

Facebook appears to have scrapped the country of Tibet, placing its capital Lhasa in China. Campaigners on the TibetTruth website have pointed out...

Obama Meets Chinese Leader on Valentine's Day: How About Some Love for Tibet?

Adele Wilde-Blavatsky | Posted 15.04.2012 | UK Politics
Adele Wilde-Blavatsky

Let's hope Obama remembers these wise words and upholds humanity's noble ideals to Xi, even if he finds it very 'hard' to do so. Otherwise Obama, will come across like a cheesy, expensive Valentine's card: all lovehearts and endearing words but no real passion or commitment.

For the viewers at home: Libya - a new paradigm for Intervention

Benjamin Montero | Posted 15.11.2011 | UK Politics
Benjamin Montero

The success of Libyan rebels in toppling Muammar Gaddafi's 40 year regime is an immense achievement, and one that should not be seen as lessened due t...

China Will Have Mastery of Asia’s Water Tap by 2020

Catriona Luke | Posted 03.10.2011 | UK
Catriona Luke

China has a damming programme for six of the world's great rivers that rise in Tibet - the Indus, Sutlej, Mekong, Brahmaputra, Salween and Yangste - a...