DHARAMSHALA: A confirmed report coming out of Tibet say four Tibetans have been sentenced to varying prison terms by the Intermediate People’s court in Rebkong and Tsekhog in Malho (incorporated to China’s Qinghai Province) eastern Tibet. Yangkyab Gyal, Chakthar, Namkha Jam and Gonpo were (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Twenty-one US Senators have written to Secretary of State John F. Kerry, urging him to make Tibet an integral issue when he visits China on 13 April. The letter was signed by Senator Mark E.Udall, Senator Marco Rubio, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Senator Micheal F. Bennet, Senator (...)
DHARAMSALA: Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay thanked U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for being a long-term friend of Tibet and urged the Secretary to prominently raise the Tibet issue and the current critical situation in Tibet in his discussions with the Chinese leadership during his maiden visit (...)
GENEVA: His Holiness the Dalai Lama will visit the Swiss Parliament at the official invitation by the President of the National Council, Ms. Maya Graf, on 16 April afternoon. Ms. Graf will receive His Holiness on arrival at the Parliament, which coincides with the one-day special session of the (...)
[dalailama.com/11 April 2013] Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy: Today, His Holiness the Dalai Lama was a guest in Trento, which entailed his driving under cloudy skies along the Adige River for about half an hour. On arrival at the Palace of the Autonomous Province of Trento he was received by the (...)
PARIS: Study Group on the Question of Tibet, a Parliamentary Group for Tibet in the French National Assembly, the lower house, has called on the President Francois Hollande to raise issue of Tibet with his Chinese counterpart when he visits China soon. In a statement released yesterday, the (...)
PARIS: A town in South France’s Aix en Provence region became on Monday, 8 April the sixtieth French municipality to officially adopt a Tibetan town. Vitrolles adopted Tsethang and Yumbu Lagang with an official ceremony marking the inauguration of “Plaque”, participated by the Mayor of Vitrolles (...)
Press Release April 11, 2013 DHARAMSHALA: The Central Tibetan Administration expresses its deepest condolences at the passing away of former British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher. “With her passing away, the world has lost a great leader, a woman who lived an exemplary life to prove (...)
Brussels, 10 April 2013 : On the initiatives of Estonian MEP Kristiina Ojuland and Lithuanian MEP Leonidas Donskis, the ALDE (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe), group hosted a seminar on Tibet for the third consecutive year in the European Parliament. In light of the escalating (...)
ZURICH: Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay arrived in Switzerland on Wednesday 10th of April for a 12 day visit. Sikyong was received at Zurich airport by Rikon Abbot, Tibet Bureau staff Tendam Sewo, Europe Chitue Venerable Thubten Wangchen including former Chitues, the President of Tibetan Community (...)