[The New York Times] By Thomas L. Friedman MEMO to: China’s President Xi Jinping. From: A Friend of Your Country. Dear President Xi, in recent years there’s been a tug of war inside the global investment community between those who think China is a bubble about to burst and therefore a “screaming (...)
BRUSSELS: Kalon Pema Chhinjor of the Department of Religion and Culture arrived in Brussels on a seven day official tour of Belgium on 9th of December, 2013. He was received at the Brussels airport by the Representative Mr. Ngodup Dorjee, Mr. Thupten Phegyal, President of the Belgium Tibetan (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Library of Tibetan Works and Archives (LTWA) hosted a felicitation programme today in honour of Prof. Parmananda Sharma, a staunch Tibet supporter and a member of the governing body of LTWA, for his literary and academic achievements. The programme was attended by chief guest (...)
(Note: The article originally appeared in Asia Times Online) By Thubten Samphel China’s anti-splitism bureaucracy is up in arms. This time the Chinese Communist Party bureaucracy’s fight against separatists is turning against scholars within party think tanks who dare to suggest accommodation and (...)
Geneva, 15 December: The primary responsibility of the Central Tibetan Administration is to resolve the Tibetan issue based on the Middle Way Approach, said Kalon Tsering Dhundup. He was addressing the Tibetan Community in Switzerland and Liechtenstein’s celebration of the 24th anniversary of His (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Raising the issue of Tibet in the Senate on World Human Rights Day on 10 December, Australian lawmaker from Tasmania, Lisa Singh, urged the international community to commit to act on behalf of Tibetans suffering human rights violations under the Chinese rule. Below are excerpts (...)
[AFP/The Telegraph] Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe offers aid and loans over five years to Southeast Asian bloc against the backdrop of an ongoing territorial dispute with Beijing Japan pledged $20 billion in aid and loans to southeast Asia on Saturday, in its latest charm offensive to woo (...)
By Anastasia Corell  [The Atlantic]  Checkpoints with fire extinguishers, pincer-wielding police officers, and spies disguised as monks—welcome to daily life in Lhasa. From nearly any point in Lhasa, capital of China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, you can see at least two police checkpoints. At each (...)
DHARAMSHALA: On 13 December, PeaceJam’s One Billion Acts of Peace campaign based in Johannesburg hosted a 20-minute digital conversation via Google+ Hangouts On Air between Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu to honour the life and legacy of Nelson (...)
By Navin Singh Khadka Environment reporter, BBC News A record number of Tibetans have been displaced in their own homeland amid rampant mining and river damming in vacated areas, according to reports. Tibetan leaders and researchers claim that this displacement has been going on over the last (...)