Dharamshala: In the afternoon of 8th October, the 17th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile elected its Speaker and Deputy Speaker under the supervision of Tibetan Election Commission. Prior to the actual voting, the Chief Election Commissioner Pesur Wangdu Tsering explained the rules and regulations of (...)
Bharat Tibbat Sangh (BTS), a newly named Indian Tibet Support Group held its National Executives’ meeting virtually on Thursday, 7th August 2021. The main agenda of the meeting was to speed up the Tibetan movement for freedom and justice; and liberate the holy Kailash Mansarovar from the (...)
Dharamshala: The elected members of the 17th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile were sworn in today in accordance with the charter of Tibetan exiles at a ceremony held at the Tibetan Parliamentary secretariat. Sikyong Penpa Tsering of the Central Tibetan Administration attended the swearing in (...)
Washington DC: Representative Ngodup Tsering attended, for the first time, the 110th National Day Celebration of ROC (Taiwan) on the evening of 6 October 2021. The celebration was held at the impressive Twin Oaks Estate which used to be the official residence of the nine Ambassadors of the (...)
Dharamshala: His Holiness the Dalai Lama today expressed his profound greetings to Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the latter’s 90th birthday. In a video message addressed to Archbishop Desmond Tutu released by the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama (OHHDL), His Holiness the Dalai Lama said: “My (...)
Dharamshala: Speaking at the 80th weekly Covid-19 Taskforce briefing, Amchi Tsering Tsamchoe of the Central Taskforce Committee updated the Covid status of the last seven days. According to the Taskforce committee’s report gathered from twelve Tibetan settlements in India and one in Nepal, the (...)
Dharamshala: The four-month stalemate of the 17th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile over the issue of oath-administration is slated to end following an advisory from His Holiness the Dalai Lama dated 6 October. Speaking at a brief press conference today, Khenpo Sonam Tenphel and Dolma Tsering, (...)
Dharamshala: Sikyong Penpa Tsering of the Central Tibetan Administration today expressed his greetings to Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa on the latter’s 90th birthday. Archbishop Desmond Tutu is a close friend of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and has co-authored with His Holiness the (...)
From Free Tibet A newly opened camp in Nagchu City held a six-day training on national defence education. Chinese authorities in the central Tibetan province of U-Tsang have announced the opening ceremony of its third military training summer camp for teenage schoolchildren in Nagchu City. On (...)
Paris: As part of his ongoing visit to Paris, Dr Michael van Walt van Praag gave an interview to journalist Pierre-Antoine Donnet from Asialyst.com and journalist Nathanael Charbonnier of France Inter radio on Tuesday, 5 October. In the afternoon of the same day, Dr Michael van Walt met Senator (...)