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.

Dharamshala: Chinese authorities have fined (20,000-60,000 Yuan) 21 teachers from the Tibetan Nationality Middle School in Machu County of eastern Tibet for alleged "bad management" of the school and teaching subversive topics to the students, Dolkar Kyab, a researcher living in Dharamshala, told The Tibet Post International, citing a Machu County resident.

Dharamshala: Chinese authorities announced Friday that they have asked all Tibetan Buddhist monks who have been helping with relief efforts in the Tibet's Kyigudo (CH: Yushu) region to vacate the quake zone. The official stance is that the monks are being asked to leave in order to facilitate the efforts of specialists being brought in, but the Chinese government has fielded accusations that the monks are being asked to leave for political reasons.

Dharamshala: A Chinese soldier said that if Chinese troops encounter a Tibetan independence activist in the quake area of Kyigudo, he or she could be shot dead on the spot without approval from higher authorities, The Epoch Times reports.

Dharamshala: When the Kyigudo earthquake shook the eastern Tibet Plateau, The ‘ National Vocational School ' in Kyigudo county (CH: Yushu), suffered serious damages and losses of life.

Dharamshala: As thousands of traumatized Tibetans remain without food and shelter following Wednesday's earthquake, many of them say that the full effects of the disaster could take months to fully emerge due to lack of supplies from the Chinese government and slow rescue efforts.