Tibet Sun is an English-language news website focusing on Tibet

Tibet

Tibet is a plateau region in Asia, north-east of the Himalayas. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpas, Qiang, and Lhobas, and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han and Hui people...

 and
the Tibetan people

Tibetan people

The Tibetan people are an ethnic group that is native to Tibet, which is mostly in the People's Republic of China. They number 5.4 million and are the 10th largest ethnic group in the country. Significant Tibetan minorities also live in India, Nepal, and Bhutan...

, world news, opinions, essays, and photography.
It was founded and produced by Lobsang Wangyal

Lobsang Wangyal

Lobsang Wangyal is a photojournalist and event producer, based in McLeod Ganj, Dharamshala, India. He has been a stringer reporter and photographer for Agence France-Presse for many years....

 in 2008, and is based in Dharamshala, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. Lobsang conceived the idea of Tibet Sun in 1999, but got the domain in 2004
after chasing the parked domain for two years. The site was launched on 8.8.8 -- the opening of the 2008 Summer Olympics

2008 Summer Olympics

The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...

 in Beijing

Beijing

Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

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Lobsang specialises in Media, Art and Entertainment and hence Tibet Sun is his
media production as a photojournalist

Photojournalism

Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism that creates images in order to tell a news story. It is now usually understood to refer only to still images, but in some cases the term also refers to video used in broadcast journalism...

. Lobsang is the director of the Miss Tibet

Miss Tibet

Miss Tibet is an annual beauty pageant held in Dharamshala, India. It is produced by . The pageant is a much-awaited annual Tibetan event, especially popular among the younger generation of Tibetans....

 Pageant, Tibetan Music Awards and Free Spirit Film Festival. His upcoming productions include Sing for Tibet on 10 October 2010, Tibet Fashion Week in 2011 and Miss Himalaya in 2012. He produced the Tibetan Olympics 2008

Tibetan Olympics 2008

The Tibetan Olympics 2008 was held from 15 to 25 May 2008 in Dharamsala, in northern India. Its purpose was to ensure that Tibetans could also celebrate the excitement of world's biggest sporting event — the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing — following the approach of sports and...

in Dharamshala.

External links

• TibetSun.com - The Tibet Sun website
• Tibet newspapers - at NewsPaperIndex.com