NPC deputy says new leaders must seek flexible and innovative way to clarify Taiwan’s status By Minnie Chan in Beijing [South China Morning Post | 14 March 2013] Beijing’s new leadership should devise an innovative and flexible definition of “one China” in order to clarify the mainland’s (...)
By Vishal Gulati Shimla, March 24 (IANS) Moved by the plight of an orphaned girl who was sexually exploited and raped by her relative and gave birth to a child in a Shimla hospital, a Tibetan charity run by a disciple of the Dalai Lama Sunday showed interest in adopting them. “We are ready to (...)
Leaders fear nation is perceived as weak at home and aggressive abroad, and hope new initiatives will change view of an increasingly vocal public [South China Morning Post / 14 March, 2013] By Teddy Ng in Beijing teddy.ng@scmp.com Beijing is ramping up its public diplomacy efforts because the (...)
DHARAMSHALA: A Tibetan mother of four young children has burnt herself to death in self-immolation protest against the Chinese rule in Ngaba in eastern Tibet. Kalkyi, 30, set herself on fire near the main gate of Jonang Monastery at Dzamthang in Ngaba, around 3:30 pm Sunday. She died on the (...)
[dalailama.com] Student Interaction and Teachings Continue for a Second Day in Delhi New Delhi, India, 23 March 2013 – When His Holiness met again at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Delhi this morning with the group of high school students he met yesterday, he began by extolling the importance of the (...)
March 24 commemorates the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch discovered the cause of tuberculosis, the TB 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 proper diagnosis (...)
The Dalai Lama Trust, New York, is pleased to announce its third round of graduate scholarship grants for the academic year 2013-2014. Ten exceptional candidates of Tibetan descent will be selected to receive scholarship awards of up to US$10,000.00 Current awardees of the program who wish to (...)
VILNIUS: Mr Thubten Samdup, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama’s representative for Northern Europe and The Baltic States visited Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania on 13-15 March. The visit aimed to discuss the upcoming visit to Lithuania in June of Dr Lobsang Sangay, Sikyong or the (...)
PRESS RELEASE UK Tibetans celebrate the 90th birthday of Mr Robert Ford CBE, the first foreigner to be given an official rank by the Government of Tibet London, 21 March 2013: Tibetans in the UK will be celebrating the 90th birthday of Mr Robert Ford CBE. Mr Ford was born on 27 March 1923 in (...)
DHARAMSHALA: A Chinese court in Tsongkha Khar in Tsoshar in eastern Tibet’s Amdo Province (incorporated into China’s Qinghai Province) on Monday (18 March) sentenced three Tibetans for allegedly spreading information on self-immolations in Tibet. Kalsang Dhondup, Jigme Thabkey and Lobsang have (...)