DHARAMSHALA: The Department of Religion and Culture will organise a prayer service on Wednesday to express solidarity with all those Tibetans who have self-immolated for the cause of Tibet, and those suffering severe arrests and torture under the Chinese rule. The Tibetan community in (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Tibetan Parliament secretariat said in an announcement that 10th March from this year on will be commemorated for all those Tibetans who have self-immolated for the cause of Tibet. The decision to mark the Tibetan National Uprising Day on 10 March – also as a day to remember the (...)
Geneva, 4 March: This afternoon Kirti Rinpoche met Mr Heiner Bielefeldt, UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, at the UN offices in Geneva. A briefing followed this meeting with an official from the Office of the President of the UN Human Rights Council. Rinpoche said that the (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Kalon Dolma Gyari called on the state chief minister and other senior functionaries concerning the welfare of Tibetans living in and around Shimla. She visited the state capital from 28 February to 2 March. Kalon Dolma Gyari met Chief Minister Raja Virbhadra Singh to (...)
[International Campaign for Tibet] The U.S. State Department announced today that Tibetan writer and blogger Tsering Woeser is a winner of the 2013 International Women of Courage Award. Presenting this year’s award at the March 8 ceremony will be Secretary of State John Kerry and special guest (...)
By Malcolm Moore  [The Telegraph] 03 Mar 2013  BEIJING: The Communist party must improve its conduct or face extinction within a decade, Xi Jinping, China’s next president, has warned, as he prepares for his inauguration. Thousands of delegates streamed into Beijing over the weekend for the annual (...)
Zurich, 3 March: Kirti Rinpoche, the spiritual head of Kirti monastic community in Ngaba, Tibet, arrived in Switzerland on Friday. He is on a three weeklong visit of Europe to talk about the situation in Tibet, particularly in Ngaba region. In his address to the Tibetan community today, he spoke (...)
[By S Gopal Puri, The Times of India | Mar 4, 2013] DHARAMSHALA: In a fresh development in the ongoing operations of the forest department to clear illegal encroachments by Tibetans in McLeodganj, Tibetan authorities have urged the state government to regularize these lands, stating that (...)
The Department of Information and International Relations of the Central Tibetan Administration hereby announce a job vacancy for one-year contractual staff for its Digitization and Archiving Project of the Tibet Museum. Position: Office Secretary Job description: Scanning Photographs, (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Supporting Tibetan Political Leader Dr Lobsang Sangay’s visit to Canada on the floor of House, a member of Canadian Parliament and former minister has urged the government to press the Chinese government to hold dialogue with the Tibetan leadership to find a lasting solution to the (...)