Tibet News (11.13.08)

by Danny Fisher

Here are the current headlines about Tibet:

  • The Associated Press covers the meeting of Tibetan leaders in Dharamsala to discuss new approaches to China.
  • Reuters reports that Continental Minerals is “awaiting central government approval for a planned $520 million copper and gold mine in Tibet, which will utilize a new railway to ship ores to a smelter in inland China.”
  • The Australian reports on “Tibet’s looming eruption.”
  • Lastly, at Phayul, Phurbu Thinley offers “proof of Tibet’s independence” in the form of the Tibet-Mongolia Treaty of 1913. “The treaty begins with Tibet and Mongolia attesting to their having emerged from under Manchu domination and constituted themselves as independent states,” he writes.