Press Release 3 December 2012 With the wave of self-immolation continuing in Tibet with over 91 Tibetans having set themselves on fire to date (78 in 2012, including 28 in November alone) and the Chinese government’s harsh response, the Kashag maintains its steadfast efforts to make the current (...)
1st of December is being observed the world over as the World AIDS Day. The Department of Health, CTA, is proactively observing the day. And, I greet you all on this important day. The HIV virus was first identified in 1981 and later clinically defined as HIV/AIDS or Human Immunodeficiency (...)
DHARAMSHALA: A Tibetan man set himself on fire yesterday (2 December) in Bora, Labrang in Tibet’s north-eastern region around 3:40 pm (local time). Sungdue Kyab, father of one, self-immolated on the main road near Bora monastery protesting against the Chinese government. Chinese police arrived (...)
By Vishal Gulati Dharamsala, Dec 2 (IANS) Despite intensified government crackdowns and internet censorship, many Chinese netizens – in the absence of a free media Chinese citizens are very active on the internet that cannot be so easily policed – are increasingly voicing solidarity with the (...)
New Delhi, November 30th: Sikyong, Dr. Lobsang Sangay, the democratically elected political leader of the Central Tibetan Administration based in Dharamsala, delivered the prestigious Sixth Dr. K. R. Narayanan Memorial Lecture at Jamia Millia Islamia on the theme ‘Democracy in Exile: The Case of (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The health department today released a documentary film titled, ‘Breaking the Silence towards Zero HIV Community’ on the occasion of the World AIDS Day. Addressing a press conference, Health Secretary Sonam Choephel Shosur said, “HIV/AIDS is one of the major health challenges the (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Kunchok Kyab, a 29-year-old Tibetan man, set himself on fire Friday at Zoegey, in Ngaba in north-eastern Tibet, taking the self-immolation toll to 90. Minutes after his immolation, Chinese security officers arrived and took his body to the regional police headquarters, eyewitnesses (...)
Bangalore, Karnataka, India 27 November 2012 – This morning His Holiness the Dalai Lama drove about 70kms north-west of Bangalore to visit Tumkur University, where he was warmly welcomed on arrival by representatives of the university and monks and lamas of Sera-je Monastic University. Joining (...)
By GARDINER HARRIS  The New York Times The cause of Tibetan freedom is not hopeless, Lobsang Sangay, leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile, said in an interview Thursday. “There is hope, primarily because of the Tibetan spirit and their continuing assertion of identity, and the sense of (...)