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 (...)
Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy 10 April 2013 Snow capped mountain peaks can be seen from the streets of Bolzano, capital city of the autonomous province of South Tyrol. On a bright spring morning today, Dr Klaus Kluther, Cabinet Chief came to escort His Holiness on the short walk across the road (...)
LONDON: His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be visiting the UK between 17 to 21 April for three days of speaking engagements in Derry~Londonderry and Cambridge. The key themes in all engagements throughout this visit will be His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s message of non-violence, compassion, (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Members of Parliament from three major political parties of Canada – the New Democratic Party, Liberal Party, and Conservative Party – have urged Prime Minister Stephen Harper to Tibet a priority for Canadian foreign policy in light of the recent rise in self-immolations there. In (...)
NEW DELHI: The national executive meeting of one of the largest Tibet support groups in India, Bharat Tibbat Sahyog Manch (BTSM), was held yesterday in the national capital. The day-long meeting was aimed to review and reinvigorate the functioning of the organisation and the Tibet movement. (...)
[Apr 6th 2013 | BEIJING |From The Economist print edition] A fatal landslide in Tibet raises questions about a rush for the region’s resources THE ecology of the Tibetan plateau, noted the Ministry of Land and Resources two years ago, is “extremely fragile”. Any damage, it warned, would be (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile has expressed sadness at the demise of Margaret Thatcher, former prime minister of the United Kingdom. “Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile is deeply saddened by the demise of Baroness Margaret Thatcher, Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. She, as (...)
Press Release April 10, 2013 Central Tibet Administration has enough evidence to prove that Gyama (Jiama) mining tragedy is man-made disaster The environmental researchers of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) based in Dharamsala, India, refute reports in the China’s official media outlets (...)
Two years ago, I took retirement from my political responsibility. In addition to my personal retirement, it also ended the nearly 400-year old system, established from the time of the Fifth Dalai Lama and followed by the successive Dalai Lamas, of being both the spiritual and temporal ruler of (...)
DHARAMSHALA: One of the world’s leading human rights group has urged US Secretary of State John Kerry should publicly deliver a strong message in defense of human rights to China’s new leadership when he visits Beijing from 13-14 April. “This is Secretary Kerry’s first visit to China in his new (...)