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I came across this fascinating piece about how the Tibetan exile community not only keeps going in the face of China's unbending occupa...

Simon Phipps points out the centrality of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: This document is one of the most important documents c...

... real life goes on.

Amidst the sound and fury of the current standoff between China and the West over Tibet, this National Geographic Magazine feature - presum...

One of my hobbies is to try to spot the emergence of unintended consequences of major events. The classic, perhaps, is the fall of the Comm...

If you want to understand the role of the Internet in the development of the current situation in China, this is the best article I've ...

Where will it all end? Like Tibetans in Tibet, Uighurs have historically been the predominant ethnic group in Xinjiang, which is officially...

As I've noted before, the Chinese position on the events in Tibet is seriously undermined by the fact that it won't allow observers ...

There's nothing like a mature response to criticism, and this is nothing like a mature response: Human rights and pro-democracy groups ...

Yahoo China pasted a "most wanted" poster across its homepage today in aid of the police's witch-hunt for 24 Tibetans accused ...

It's hard to know how to respond to the events unfolding in Tibet. And it's hard on two levels. First, as an outsider anything I do...

Regular readers of this blog will know that I have a soft spot for Bhutan's Dzonghkha language and its use in free software, so I was n...

I wrote recently about the plight of the Tibetan people. One of the problems is that it is hard for an average non-Tibetan to do much to h...

As a big fan of both freedom and Tibet, it seems only right that I should point to the Students for a Free Tibet site . Against a backgroun...

One of the great trends online is to pool data to create a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts. The Encyclopedia of Life is one...

A suprising post from Cult of the Dead Cow about Google and its role in the cultural genocide of the Tibetans : Ever since Google announced ...

I've written before about how digital technology can be applied by the oppressed and disenfranchised to help preserve their identity. ...

I came across this worthy project through an article about Tibet by Paul Jones: The Tibetan & Himalayan Digital Library project at the...

The ability of blogs to pick up on stories that the mainstream media miss or choose to ignore is by now well known; less remarked upon is th...

Although open access usually refers to journal papers, there are an increasing number of books freely available too, as a previous post not...