Dharamshala: Two earthquakes measuring 5.7 and 5.5 magnitudes on the Richter scale hit southwest Tibet earlier today, according to China's Earthquake Networks Center.  Both of the earthquakes occurred in the Nyanrong County (Ch: Nyainrong) in Nagchu (Ch: Nagqu) Prefecture less than an hour apart, at 10:06 and 10:44 AM local time.

Dharamshala: Forest fires have broken out in the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region, reported state controlled media, China Daily News earlier today.

Dharamshala: According to a press release from the Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), three monks from Ditsa Monastery in Qinghai Province, including a reincarnated lama, were arrested and detained under suspicion of involvement in pasting political pamphlets around the monastery. A school run by the monastery was also forcibly shut down, for unknown reasons.

Dharamshala: Chinese authorities recently sentenced Adri Rinpoche, a respected senior Tibetan Buddhist monk, and his son Dasher, both claimed to have received serious charges linked to the March 2008 protests in Tibet, the Dharamshala-based National Democrat Party of Tibet told The Tibet Post International on Monday.