DHARAMSHALA: A new opinion poll commissioned by the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), a Washington, DC based Tibet advocacy group, showed an overwhelming majority of French and German citizens want their leaders to prioritise human rights and Tibet during their meetings with Chinese (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Mrs Chungdak Koren resigned as the member of Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile from Europe due to health problems on 17 March. The Election Commission on 19 March announced the confirmation of Mr Tenzin Wangpo Tethong as the new MP from Europe. In a statement after tendering her (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Human Rights Watch has called on the president of France to raise the issue of deteriorating human rights situation in Tibet when he meets Chinese President Xi Jinping this week. In addition to France, Mr Xi will visit Germany, Belgium as well as the EU headquarters on his first (...)
[WalesOnline] A teenage runaway from Germany has been rescued from the streets of Cardiff and reunited with his family thanks to the kindness of a Tibetan monk. Buddhist Lama Lobsang took Tilo Yaye, 18, into his home in Canton after he spotted him sleeping rough outside Cardiff Market two (...)
[By Zarni Mann/The Irrawaddy] MANDALAY — Aung San Suu Kyi said over the weekend that the government must respect and protect its citizens from threats posed by illegal immigration, while also urging “harmonious” coexistence with people of all nationalities in Burma. Suu Kyi was responding to (...)
BANGALORE: The Bharat Tibbat Sahayog Manch’s (Tibet Support Group) chapter in the Southern Indian state of Karnataka organised a meeting on Indo-China Relations and Freedom of Tibet at Mythic society in Bangalore last Saturday. Dr S.R Nayak, former chairman of Karnataka State Human Right (...)
March 24 commemorates the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch discovered the cause of Tuberculosis (TB), the tuberculosis bacillus. Since then, 24th March is observed every year as World TB Day worldwide. Tuberculosis is a preventable disease which can be prevented and cured easily by prompt and (...)
DHARAMSHALA: World TB Day was marked in Dharamsala on Sunday, 23 March, at TCV day school, McleodGanj. This year’s TB day theme “Reach the 3 million”, as designated by WHO, emphasizes the need for greater global effort to reach about 3 million TB infected people who currently don’t have access to (...)
[Associated Press/The Guardian] First lady spoke to students at Peking University during a week-long trip in China aimed at promoting educational exchanges Michelle Obama on Saturday told students in China, which has some of the world’s tightest restrictions on the internet, that freedom of (...)
New Delhi, India, 22 March 2014 – On a bright spring morning today in the Indian capital His Holiness the Dalai Lama met with almost 260 students as well as 40 teachers and principals from13 Delhi schools including the Step by Step School, Mount Abu School, Salwan Public School, Springdales (...)