Thousands of Tibetans have converged in Delhi for a series of campaign activities. As India finds itself doing a balancing act between China and India, NDTV discusses the conference’s implications. (Watch)
By Jim Greenhalf, Telegraph & Argus Reporter Who said miracles don’t happen? Certainly not the exiled spiritual head of Buddhist Tibet. Last summer fans’ group Friends of Bradford City presented the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, with a personalised claret and amber City shirt and made him (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The US government on Friday called on the Chinese government to allow Tibetans to express their grievances freely and peacefully against its policies threatening Tibet’s distinct religious, cultural, and linguistic identity. “We are aware that there are reports that Chinese (...)
Washington: A top American Tibetan leader has said that while people in China are enjoying comparatively more freedom, Tibet is increasingly being turned into one big prison and Tibetans are being treated as second grade citizens. Bhuchung K Tsering, vice president, Special Programs of (...)
By Tom Gara [The Wall Street Journal] Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt is brutally clear: China is the most dangerous superpower on Earth. Corporate Intelligence reviewed preliminary galleys of Schmidt’s new book, “The New Digital Age,” (Random House) which debuts in April. And Schmidt’s (...)
[Bloomberg] By Andrew MacAskill – Jan 25, 2013 New Delhi: Tibetans should avoid celebrating their New Year next month and instead say prayers for the rising number of activists setting themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule, the Tibetan government-in-exile said, urging an end to the (...)
[Wall Street Journal] By Saurabh Chaturvedi and Tripti Lahiri New Delhi, 26 Jan: The number of Tibetans who have set themselves on fire in protest against China has reached 86 since the beginning of 2012, said a statement on Friday from the prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, (...)
[South China Morning Post/Associated Press] The political leader of Tibetan exiles on Friday accused China of holding “sham” trials in which eight Tibetans were convicted of inciting others to self-immolate to protest Chinese rule. Lobsang Sangay, prime minister of the Tibetan (...)
[Hindustan Times] January 30, 2013 Dharamsala: Tibet Policy Institute (TCI) – a think tank that functions as a research-oriented intellectual platform for the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) – has revealed in its first report that the political repression and cultural assimilation are (...)
FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE: CENTRAL TIBETAN ADMINISTRATION CONDEMNS THE HARSH SENTENCES IMPOSED ON SIX MORE TIBETANS IN TIBET Further to our press release today afternoon regarding two Tibetans – Lobsang Kunchok, 40, of Kirti monastery and Lobsang Tsering, 31, from Ngaba, who received death (...)