[The Economist/13 October 2012] Strangers in a strange land LHASA: IN FRONT of the Jokhang temple at the heart of the Tibetan capital, excited members of a Chinese tour group pose in their new cowboy hats and snap photos to post on their microblogs for friends back home. Not far away, others (...)
DELHI: The Flame of Truth reaches Delhi on 6 October and was held with a brief function organised at Samyeling Tibetan Colony. Prior to that, Tibetan community based in Delhi met several times over a month to arrange the relay, which covers all over Delhi. On 8 October, the relay was started (...)
DHARAMSHALA: One of the two Tibetan monks from Labrang Monastery in northeastern Tibet’s Labrang region, Jigme Gyatso, who was arrested for his role in exposing the Chinese government crackdown on peaceful Tibetan protesters across Tibet in 2008, is in critical situation. He and Golog Jigme were (...)
The revised rates in respect of services towards Identity Certificate (IC), such as issue of fresh IC; issue of fresh ICs whose validity has expired; issue of additional booklet; issue of IC towards lost/damaged ones etc.) has been revised from 01 October 2012 due to the revision in the (...)
DHARAMSHALA: A US Congressional report on China has warned that any attempts by the Chinese government, as advocated by a key communist party official earlier this year, to abrogate ethnic minority status could adversely affect the Tibetan people’s cultural and linguistic identity and further (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Meeting a group of students, including some from China, at the College of William & Mary in Virginia yesterday, His Holiness the Dalai Lama told them the Tibetan people are seeking genuine autonomy within the framework of the Chinese constitution and that they should not be (...)
[The Associated Press] BEIJING: Cases of people being forcibly evicted from their homes and land have risen significantly in China, becoming the single greatest source of public discontent and a serious threat to social and political stability in the country, Amnesty International said (...)
Leh, 9 October — Mr. Tenzin Norbu, the head of the Environment and Development Desk of the Department of Information and International Relations of the Central Tibetan Administration, at the invitation of the SOS Tibetan Children’s Village school in Choglamsar, gave a crisp and clear power-point (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Central Tibetan Administration today organised a prayer service at the main temple here, to mourn and express solidarity with all those Tibetans who have self-immolated for the cause of Tibet, including Sangay Gyatso. 27-year-old Sangay Gyatso, a father of two children, set (...)
The Tibetan political leader Dr. Lobsang Sangay will be one of the participants at the Forum 2000 Conference in October, which, in accordance with the wishes of the late Václav Havel, will look at the relationship between democracy and the media. “The middle way policy remains the policy of the (...)