[This post has been updated as of 6:15 p.m. EST on 5.7.09.]
Here is some of the latest news about Tibet:
The BBC reports that China’s top weather official has said that “rising temperatures in Tibet are threatening droughts and floods, which could endanger millions of people.”
Reuters reports that while speaking in Manhattan recently, His Holiness the Dalai Lama “urged Americans to visit his homeland to disprove China’s assertion that people are happy there.”
It is being reported that Tibetan monk Jigme, who has been in detention since posting a YouTube about being abused when he was arrested during the Chinese crackdown on Tibetan rioters and demonstrators in March 2008, has been released from prison.
The Associated Press reports that the Chinese government has predictably rejected the latest U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom report on their country.
The Agence France-Presse reports that “China warned Paris Thursday not to make more ‘errors’ on Tibet amid news the Dalai Lama may be made an honorary citizen of the French capital, just as frosty ties between the two nations had improved.”
Albany’s Times Union is the latest publication to mull over the question of who will be the next Dalai Lama.
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