DHARAMSHALA: Under the initiative between the European Academy of Bolzano/Bozen (EURAC) and CTA’s Tibet Policy Institute, two researchers of the Central Tibetan Administration’s Department of Information and International Relations, Mr Jigme Norbu and Mr Tenzin Jamchhen, attended the two weeks (...)
MIKE BLANCHFIELD Published Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013 04:45PM EST Last updated Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013 11:09PM EST OTTAWA: China’s government has barred Canada’s new ambassador from visiting Tibet as desperate monks prolong their wave of self-immolations to protest Beijing’s rule over the Himalayan (...)
OTTAWA: Tibet’s political leader, Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay, is visiting Ottawa this week. Dr. Sangay has been invited to address the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Canadian parliament, on Tuesday, 26 February. The parliamentary subcommittee is in the midst of a study (...)
By Randall Palmer OTTAWA | Wed Feb 27, 2013 (Reuters) – Beijing’s attempts to stop Tibetans setting themselves on fire to protest against Chinese rule are counter-productive and are only provoking more self-immolations, the Tibetan prime minister in exile told Reuters on Tuesday. Lobsang (...)
By CAMPBELL CLARK The Globe and Mail [Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013] OTTAWA: The political leader of exiled Tibetans is calling on Canada’s ambassador for religious freedom to investigate religious repression and suicide in his homeland, squeezing the week-old post into a tricky diplomatic position. (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The situation inside Tibet continues to remain grim as three more Tibetans set themselves on fire in the last two days taking the total number of self-immolations to 107. A latest report coming out of Tibet say Sangdak, a monk of Dhiphu monastery, set himself on fire on a highway (...)
TAIPEI: The Tibetan community in Taiwan has organised a two week exhibition to draw the attention and support of the international community on the grim situation prevailing inside Tibet. The exhibition, which began Monday, is being organised by the Office of Tibet and the Taiwan Tibetan (...)
Felix BRAZ Parliamentary group Déi gréng MOTION The Chamber of Deputies, seeing the consistent position of the Luxembourg Government, anxious to respect the territorial integrity of People’s Republic of China but also the protection of respect for human rights, highlighted by the Minister of (...)
(dalailama.com) DHARAMSHALA: On early Monday morning, after attending the monastic confession and purification ceremony (So-jong) in the main temple here at Theckchen Chöling, His Holiness the Dalai Lama came down to take his seat on the throne in the temple garden. First he explained the (...)
BASEL, Switzerland: “You must never under-estimate your power as supporters of Tibet and truth,” Kalon Dicki Chhoyang told members of the Swiss Tibetan Friendship Association. She was addressing the annual general meeting of the friendship group on Saturday afternoon in Basel. “I want to say how (...)