About Dechen Pemba
UK born Tibetan, based in London again via stints in Berlin and Beijing. Monitoring Tibetan websites and blogs in Tibetan, Chinese and English.
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August 28th, 2009
China: Are Tibetan Bloggers Being Silenced?
Quite alarming to report that all of the most popular Tibetan language blog hosting sites (except one) have been inaccessible for almost three weeks now.
Although it is fairly common practice for Tibetan language blog hosting sites to be taken down (sometimes for "maintenance") at times deemed sensitive by the authorities ...
August 4th, 2009
East Asia
Tibetan bloggers have been breaking the news about the arrest of Tibetan writer Tashi Rabten who writes under the name “Therang”. So far the only news about this arrest has come from Tibetan bloggers, for a translation of one blogpost into English, see this post on High Peaks Pure Earth with many links to Tibetan blogs.
July 23rd, 2009
East Asia
Jamyang Kyi is a Tibetan broadcaster, writer and blogger based in Xining. Her blog is very popular amongst Tibetans. High Peaks Pure Earth has translated third letter to her friend Norzin Wangmo who was imprisoned in the wake of the unrest in Tibet in 2008 from Tibetan to English.
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