BRUSSELS: Kalon Dicki Chhoyang, Kalon for Department of Information and International Relations, Central Tibetan Administration arrived in Brussels on 14 April on a four day official visit. Amongst other official engagements, she was invited to address the swearing in ceremony of Mr. Henri (...)
PARIS: Dr. Lobsang Sangay, the Sikyong of Central Tibetan Administration, was received Thursday at the French National Assembly by one of the co-presidents of the Study Group on the Question of Tibet, Mr Jean-Patrick Gille, along with four other officials. During an hour long interaction with (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Central Tibetan Administration’s Finance Kalon Tsering Dhondup participated in a two-day summit Sankalp Unconvention Summit in Mumbai from 17-18 April. The summit is one of Asia’s largest collaborative platforms to bring together social enterprises, impact investors, policy makers, (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Department of Education, Central Tibetan Administration started a month long medical (NEET) & Non-medical (CET) coaching class from 27th March, 2013 at Vidhya Peeth coaching centre, Shimla and Eudite coaching centre, Bangalore simultaneously. This coaching class was (...)
Derry, Northern Ireland 17 April 2013 In 1961, a group of Tibetan refugees were offered work and accommodation in Rikon, Switzerland. They settled down and formed a community that in the late 1960s led to the establishment of the Tibet Institute, Rikon to preserve Tibetan culture. Today, His (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Khawa Karpo Tibet Culture Centre (KTC), the publisher of one the exile community’s widely circulated newspapers, Bod-kyi Bangchen or The Tibet Express, today celebrated its 10th founding anniversary in Dharamsala. Kalon Pema Chhinjor, Mr Karma Choephel, former speaker and incumbent (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Tibetan Parliamentarians Geshe Monlam Tharchin and Jigmey Jungney visited Tibetan settlements in North India from 1- 17 April 2013. The settlements include Shimla Yangchen Gatseling, Paonta Cholsum, Puruwala, Satoun, Kumrao, Herbertpur, Thogyal Bon Tibetan Settelement and Selakui (...)
[ABC NEWS] One of Australia’s most prestigious universities is under fire after pulling the plug on a planned speaking event by the Dalai Lama. Students at the University of Sydney scored a major coup when the Tibetan spiritual leader agreed to speak at their campus during his upcoming short (...)
PARIS: French senators yesterday received Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay, the democratically-elected leader of Tibetans and political successor to His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet, at the Senate to honour of his visit to the country. At the Senate, the President of the Tibet Group Senator Jean (...)
By Nilanjana Bhowmick / Dharamsala [TIME MAGAZINE] Last year, Norbu Jorden ran away to New Delhi to set himself on fire. Driven by accounts of other self-immolations by Tibetans — there have been 112 deaths since 2009 — the 20-year-old student concluded that this was the only way he could contribute (...)