Dharamshala: A Beijing-based Tibetan writer, Tsering Woeser, has received the 2010 ‘Courage in Journalism Award'. Each year the award recognizes heroic women journalists from all over the world who risk political persecution and personal safety in their efforts to expose corruption and defend human rights.

Dharamshala: Dawa Dorjee, editor for Path Magazine (Lambu), and renowned Tibetan writer, recently resigned from his post at the People's Investigation Centre in Nyangrong County, Nyakchu district of eastern Tibet according to information received from sources by The Tibet Post International.

Dharamshala: An exiled Tibetan returnee was arrested yesterday for staging a solo protest in front of Jokhang temple (Tsuglakhang) in Lhasa, according to confirmed information received from a reliable source by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD).

Dharamshala: The U.S.-based China Overseas Tibetans Association has raised funds totaling 500,000 (73,000 U.S.Dollar) yuan for quake-hit Kyigudo or Yushul, an eastern Tibetan region of Kham (Ch: Qinghai Province).

Dharamshala: A heavy storm in Dzayul County, eastern Tibet has left at least 2 students missing and cut water, power supplies, local Chinese authorities told the state controlled news agency Xinhua on Monday.

Dharamshala: Tagyal, pseudonym Shog-dung, a well-known Tibetan writer and the editor of the Qinghai People's Publishing House, was arrested recently by Chinese Security Bureau Officials in Siling (Chinese; Xining, the provincial capital of so-called Qinghai). News of the arrest was reported yesterday by one of Tagyal's friends, the writer Nyi-Shun, in Sangdor, a Tibet-based online literary forum which was censored shortly after publishing.