by Karen Meirik
31-03-2008
Security on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square has rarely been as strict as it was for the arrival of the Olympic flame on Monday. For fear of disturbances, even the route the torch was to take to the square was kept secret.
By Danielle Ameden/Daily News staff
GHS Posted Mar 30, 2008 @ 08:24 PM
By Kim Vo
Mercury News
When Olympic torchbearers gather in San Francisco next month, they’ll jog by the brick baseball stadium, trot along the breathtaking waterfront and probably pass cheering families hoping for a glimpse at the famed quadrennial run.
March 28, 2008; Page A12
By WANG LIXIONG
The recent troubles in Tibet are a replay of events that happened two decades ago. On Oct. 1, 1987, Buddhist monks were demonstrating peacefully at the Barkor — the famous market street around the central cathedral in Lhasa — when police began beating and arresting them. To ordinary Tibetans, who view monks as “treasures,” the sight was intolerable — not only in itself, but because it stimulated unpleasant memories that Tibetan Buddhists had been harboring for years.
Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:38pm GMT
LONDON, March 28 (Reuters) - Sports news in brief from around the world:
Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:27pm IST
By John Ruwitch
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will not punish a group of Tibetan monks for disrupting a government-organised foreign media tour of Lhasa and voicing support for the Dalai Lama, a senior official said in a bid to allay fears of repercussions.
A STATEMENT BY CONCERNED TIBETAN STUDIES SCHOLARS ON THE CURRENT CRISIS IN TIBET ADDRESSED TO PRESIDENT HU JINTAO AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
Human rights not in China’s game plan
Last updated March 25, 2008 5:25 p.m. PT
BRIDGET JOHNSON
SYNDICATED COLUMNIST
