DHARAMSHALA: Health Kalon Tsering Wangchuk will leave Dharamshala today for a 19-day official visit to Tibetan settlements and monasteries in south India. His visit includes addresses and public talks at Kollegal, Hunsur, Bylakuppe and Mundgod Tibetan settlements. He will visit the Department (...)
DHARAMSHALA: A Tibet support group has urged prime minister Julia Gillard to raise the issue of human rights in Tibet when she meets China’s top leadership this week. Ms Gillard will meet with president Xi Jinping on Sunday during her six-day visit to China, Sky News reported. The Australia Tibet (...)
[By Christopher Williams/The Telegraph] Apple has ejected an app that offered access to banned books from its App Store in China, in the latest sign of the technology giant’s willingness to appease the Chinese government. Hao Peiqiang, the Beijing-based developer of the app said Apple told him (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay will leave Dharamsala today for a four-nation visit of Europe from 10 – 21 April. Sikyong will meet some key officials during his visits to Germany, Belgium, France and Switzerland. He will address the second conference on Tibetan Buddhism in Europe, and (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Kashag Secretariat today announced a change in the working hours of all the Central Tibetan Administration offices from April to September. Under the new office hours, except every first Saturday, the remaining Saturdays will be common non-working days. To compensate the (...)
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU | Mon Apr 1, 2013 (Reuters) – China is putting pressure on Nepal to interrupt the flow of Tibetan refugees into the Himalayan nation, former United States President Jimmy Carter said on Monday. Hundreds of refugees from the Chinese province of Tibet cross treacherous (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Central Tibetan Administration today held a prayer service to express solidarity with all those Tibetans who have self-immolated and those suffering incarceration and torture under China’s repressive rule in Tibet. The abbot of Namgyal Monastery presided over the prayer service (...)
[By Edward Wong / The New York Times] 2 April 2013 BEIJING — One after another, the bodies have kept coming. By Tuesday, rescuers had pulled 54 dead miners from the snow-covered rubble. They expect to find more. The miners had traveled to a valley on the roof of the world to work in what (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Chinese government has released a Tibetan political prisoner after serving 17 years in prison for allegedly endangering national security and separatism. Jigme Gyatso, 52, was ordered to return to his native village in Labrang in eastern Tibet (Ch: Gansu Province) after his (...)
DHARAMSHALA: His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Friday addressed Tibetans in Salugara on the devolution of his political responsibilities to the elected Tibetan leadership and efforts to resolve the issue of Tibet. His Holiness explained that it is now almost two years since he devolved his (...)