PARIS: In a letter addressed to the French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius today, Mr. Jean-Patrick Gill has urged the Minister to receive Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay when the later visits Paris on 18 April. “In view of the very worrying situation in the Tibetan regions, and the dramatic (...)
DHARAMSHALA: According to news coming out of Tibet, a large number of youth in Machu area of Tibet on April 10, staged a protest outside a local administrative building demanding immediate stop to policies that have marginalized local Tibetan youth in education and job opportunities in the (...)
DHARAMSHALA: More than 21 Tibetans are arrested after hundreds of local Tibetans in Kyegudo region of Kham protested against the local Chinese authorities on 9 April. The Tibetans were protesting against rampant land grabbing and forceful eviction of Tibetan families from their ancestral homes (...)
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 (...)