The Secret Tibet (The Forbidden world)

Press release by Press of Tibet

Dharamsala: March 10^th 2008. Press of Tibet has launches the first independent trilingual website (English and Chinese and Tibetan) for Tibet at Dharamsala, H.P, India. The website www.thetibetpost.com or The Tibet Post International is updating mainly the daily news for Tibet issues and also including world news from abroad. The website is developing and publishing by the Press of Tibet and officially launched on 10th December 2007.

Press of Tibet (POT), an independent and non-profit media organization newly established in Dharamsala, H.P, India on 10th March 2007 by a group of Tibetan journalists in exile. Press of Tibet has been tested it's trilingual website in the weeks of December and the English and Chinese version are running well, but Press of Tibet has experienced that the Tibetan font for Tibetan version still need further development, however, it is working in internet explore 7.

The Tibet Post International's weekly online news-paper (TPI)) 

Every week The Tibet Post International publishes Tibet and international news in the English language. The Tibet Post International mainly focuses on Tibet related issues, following the development inside Tibet closely as well as reporting on the activities and working of Exile democratic institutions. The weekly issue is divided into two parts; news of the week and a feature story, which is including Tibet and exile news, editorial, world news, essays, fiction and non-fiction write-ups, personal thoughts, opinions and more. The Tibet Post International is the first independent weekly in English in Tibetan community. Following topics will be covered in the Newspaper:

1. Articles and interviews on Tibetan issues, media statues and Tibetan freedom of expression;
2. Response to Chinese press articles, presenting a distorted version of Tibetan history etc. Comparative studies on the constitution of China, highlighting the contradiction between what it promises and the actual thing existing on the ground.
3. Report on the state of media freedom in Tibet to international community, including the arbitrary arrest and detention, and harassment of the Tibetan writers and journalist in Tibet.
4. Updates and publishes HH the Dalai Lama's latest public speeches in serialized form
5. Developments in the Tibetan Government In-Exile and International affairs
6. Guest columns and letters to the editor
7. Principles and theories of freedom of expression.

Hence the readership is restricted within the Tibetan community and this naturally reduces the scope of conveying the messages and any information related to Tibet and Tibetans in the international community.

Added by Tibet Correspondent for Reporters Without Borders, Mr. Yeshe Choesang.