Category Archives: Features

• Albino dolphin calf “Angel” captured in Japan 21 January 2014 | Gabrielle Jonas no comments

  More than 250 bottle-nosed dolphins, including a rare albino dolphin, were lured into a cove off the Japanese coast, and by Sunday two had already died and 40 had been taken into captivity. ...

• Tibetan refugees seek better life in Vancouver 3 January 2014 | Gavin Fisher no comments

  Kelsang Choden shifted nervously in her chair, her eyes darting towards her sponsor sitting nearby. "I'm hoping to become a nurse," she said, when asked what her dreams are for her life in Canada. ...

• Ancient Buddha statues in Bihar find new homes 9 December 2013 | Nirala no comments

  In villages of Magadh, Bihar, Buddha idols reduced to furniture and embellishments, and also being increasingly Hinduised. ...

• World’s oldest big cat fossils discovered in Tibet 13 November 2013 | Jennifer S Holland 2 comments

  Scientists have found the oldest big cat fossil yet, dated between 4.1 and 5.95 million years old, suggesting the big cats such as Tigers and Leopards might have evolved in Central Asia and spread out. ...

• Tibetan glaciers are shrinking at their summits 17 September 2013 | Jane Qiu no comments

  The Tibetan glaciers are virtually being decapitated from the top by a warming climate. ...

• Vijay Kranti: The story of the Dalai Lama in art and words 24 August 2013 | Lobsang Wangyal no comments

  Vijay Kranti's latest work is a comic book titled Dalai Lama — The Soldier of Peace, based on the life of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. ...

• Mandala magic returns to Ulladulla 25 June 2013 no comments

  A group of Tibetan monks from a monastery in southern India is arriving in Ulladulla, a coastal town in New South Wales, Australia, to begin work on a sand mandala. ...

• Three years on, flood in mini Tibet 20 June 2013 | Ambika Pandit no comments

  The normally bustling market with flavours of Tibet in the air wore a dark and dank look on Wednesday as the Yamuna's waters flooded many homes in the Tibetan refugee colony at Majnu Ka Tilla. ...

• The mother who burned herself to death for Tibet 6 June 2013 | Sui-Lee Wee no comments

  On the chilly afternoon of 24 March, Kalkyi stood outside the monastery gates with about 200 to 300 other worshippers. She doused herself with gasoline and lit a match. Flames instantly engulfed her. ...

• Three poles: The Arctic, Antarctic and Himalayas all connect 2 June 2013 | Falk Huettmann and Ashok K Roy no comments

  For many there are two poles; but for some there are three poles which are so lovely, so inviting, and have so much in common in terms of their extreme physical ecosystems. ...