Applications are invited for the post of ‘Facilitators’ for ‘Technology-based After-school Coaching Program’ in three Tibetan Schools. Coaching Facilitator will be placed in school to ‘run and monitor’ the Class XII After-School Coaching Program. (Facilitator will not teach in the classes; they will (...)
4th of February is being observed throughout the world as the World Cancer Day. Cancer refers to a group of illnesses that result from cells in the body growing abnormally. These cells divide and produce new cells in an uncontrolled way forming masses or tumors that can spread throughout the (...)
Editorial Opinion By: Andrea Paras [Toronto Star] As one of China’s top trade partners, Canada has a stake in ending Beijing’s abuses in Tibet. One morning last spring, Jamphel Yeshi left his apartment in the outskirts of New Delhi to attend a demonstration in protest of then Chinese President Hu (...)
By Vishal Gulati Dharamsala, Feb 4 (IANS): Why are Tibetans setting themselves afire in China? Protests against repression or a desperate attempt, as China holds, to get global attention to their cause? The reason is simple: a total failure of China’s policy in more than 60 years of its rule in (...)
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW [The New York Times] 3 February 2013 BEIJING — Since November, when cold winter began in the high Tibetan Plateau, thousands of Tibetan villagers have been gathering daily to pray for the souls of the nearly 100 Tibetans who have burned themselves to death in protest over (...)
By Kim Arora | Feb 3, 2013, 03.54 PM IST [The Times of India] NEW DELHI: Tibetan Prime Minister (Kalon Tripa) in exile Lobsang Sangay on Saturday called for a stronger endorsement of non-violent methods by the international community. Sangay said that the projection of the recent armed (...)
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS): Tibetans across the globe have invested in democracy and non-violence in their 50-year struggle for autonomy but have not got adequate international support, Lobsang Sangay, the elected leader of the Tibetan people, has said. Delivering the first annual lecture by the (...)
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) China’s “hardline policies” in Tibet have failed and the international community ought to do more to press the country to allow a UN delegation there in the wake of rising self-immolations by Tibetans, Tibetan political leader Lobsang Sangay says. The international (...)
By JIM YARDLEY [The New York Times] Published: February 2, 2013 NEW DELHI — A crowd of Tibetans came here to India’s capital last week, bearing flags and political banners and a bittersweet mixture of hope and despair. A grim countdown was under way: The number of Tibetans who have set themselves (...)
By Ashish Yechury | Feb 3, 2013 [The Times of India] Lobsang Sangay, head of the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamshala, was in Delhi recently for the Tibetan solidarity campaign. The former Harvard academic spoke to Ashish Yechury about the wave of self-immolations in Tibet which have (...)