{The Tibet Post International}-French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner met with the Dalai Lama at the inauguration of a Buddhist temple in Southern France Friday, amid new allegations by the Tibetan leader that China killed protesters in Tibet earlier this week.

{The Tibet Post International}-According to information given in Chinese State website; the Chinese police in Malho district in Amdo Province, in recent weeks, have closely checked (scrutinized) and interrogated Tibetans coming from Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), Sichuan Province, Gansu Province and their neighboring provinces.

{The Tibet Post International}-Paris:21 August 2008-Reporters Without Borders condemns regional variation in the blocking of access to websites in China. The authorities unblocked the sites of certain international news media and NGOs on 1 August, but many of these sites continue to be blocked in the province of Tibet.

{The Tibet Post International}-By China correspondent Stephen McDonell, ABC News-The Dalai Lama's office has denied he mentioned any specific death toll from an alleged mass killing this week. An an official statement from the Dalai Lama's representatives in France, the Tibetan Spiritual leader has denied saying that 140 people might have been killed by Chinese troops this week.

{The Tibet Post International}-Accordingly to a reliable source, on August 02, 2008, two Tibetans namely Dechen Wangmo, aged 38 and Tseten Wangmo, aged 25, both hailing from Linglha Village in Rongpa County in Karze District, Kham Province (Ch: Sichuan) sought a permit card from the concerned Chinese authority to travel to Karze Area.

{The Tibet Post International}-The album 'Songs for Tibet: The Art of Peace,' a top-selling rock download in the US, Canada, several European countries and Japan - which reached #4 on the Billboard album download charts in its first week of sales - has been downloaded by more than 40 Olympic athletes competing at the Beijing Games.

{The Tibet Post International-17 August 2008P} (AP)-The Dalai Lama has accused China of torturing Tibetans, sometimes to death, during the Olympic Games. Asked in an interview Saturday with TF1 television about the situation in Tibet during the Games, the Tibetan spiritual leader responded, "Unfortunately, the Olympic spirit is not all respected by Chinese officials inside Tibet.

{The Tibet Post International-16 August 2008}-A report recently circulated in the online state-run Chinese media declared that the Tibetan people inside Tibet rejected His Holiness the Dalai Lama as their leader. According to the reports, around 13,700 Tibetan teachers and students of around six higher middle school and three hundred elementary and middle schools in five Tibetan cities.

{The Tibet Post International-14 August 2008}-Indian police arrested the second six Tibetan activists who have been on a hunger strike for complete 9 days without food and water to protest the ongoing Beijing Olympics and the occupation of Tibet by China. The arrest came at 2.40pm, 14 August with above 300 Delhi police.