DHARAMSHALA: Joint Secretary Gonpo Tashi Angeytsang, serving as the settlement officer of Orissa Phuntsokling settlement, passed away due to illness on 28 August at a hospital in Bangalore. He was 54. Mr Gonpo Tashi was born on 6 July 1957 at Nangchen, Kham in eastern Tibet. His family came (...)
BANGALORE: Kalon for the Department of Home, Dolma Gyari, met senior officials of the government of Karnataka during her recent visit to south India. She was accompanied by Chief Representative of South Zone, Mr Karma Singe. During her last leg of visit at Doeguling Tibetan settlement in (...)
DHARAMSHALA: An official of Kirti Tsodun monastery in north-eastern Tibet’s Ngaba region is still missing after he was picked up by police on the night of 19 August, a report coming of out Tibet says. Both the monastery and local residents have frantically searched the whereabouts of Lobsang (...)
[Deutsche Welle / 28 August 2012] Tibet Initiative Deutschland talks with DW about the growing number of Tibetan self-immolations and its demonstration in Berlin ahead of German Chancellor Merkel’s trip to Beijing for inter-governmental consultations. DW: What can you tell us about the Tibet (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Department of Education is organising for the first time a symposium on dialectics for students from Himachal and Ladakh at Sambhota Tibetan school in Chauntra near Dharamsala from 27 August – 1 September. Students and religious teachers, including 33 boys, 33 girls and 11 (...)
Radio Free Asia 2012-08-23 Chinese authorities set up body scanners and monitor phone calls in the Tibetan capital. Chinese authorities have implemented a massive security clampdown in Lhasa, pouring police into the Tibetan capital and setting up checkpoints with airport-style body scanners in (...)
Press Release DHARAMSHALA: Two Tibetan teenagers died after setting themselves on fire in Ngaba in north-eastern Tibet in protest against the annihilation of Tibetan identity by the Chinese government. Lobsang Kalsang, 18, a monk of Kirti monastery, and Dhamchoe, 17, set themselves on fire near (...)
DHARAMSHALA: A Tibetan delegation leading the flame of truth torch relay in Goa met with series of Indian leaders to seek their support to end the Chinese government’s repression in Tibet. The delegation headed by Karma Yeshi, a member of Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, submitted a memorandum on (...)
DHARAMSHALA: A Tibetan nun was severely beaten and arrested by Chinese police after she raised slogans in the main market in Karze in eastern Tibet on 25 August. Shedup Lhamo, a 33-year-old nun of Karze Gaden Choeling Nunnery, shouted slogans for the long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, (...)
NEW DELHI: A three-member delegation of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile led by Speaker Penpa Tsering, Geshe Rongpo Lobsang Nyandak and Choekyong Wangchuk, is on a week-long visit to embassies of various nations in New Delhi to seek concrete support to end the grim situation prevailing inside (...)