Konmay, a 45-year-old monk of Trotsik Monastery in Ngaba County, northeastern Tibet (incorporated into China’s Sichuan Province) was arrested by Chinese authorities on 20 July, according to Dharamshala-based Kirti monks Lobsang Yeshe and Kanyag Tsering on 3 August. The reason for Konmay’s arrest (...)
Hindustan Times, Published 4 August 2021 The newly opened Lhasa-Nyingchi Railway carried new recruits of a combined arms brigade affiliated with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Tibet Military Command to an exercise field at an elevation of 4,500 meters. China’s recently launched high-speed (...)
Rep. Chris Smith, a 21-term Republican congressman from New Jersey and co-chair of the Congressional Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, is a long-time critic of the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights record. He spoke to Tashi Wangchuk of RFA’s Tibetan Service Friday about increasingly (...)
By Kelsang Dolma, published in Foreign Policy on 1 August 2021 As the Tokyo Olympics wrap up, thanks to the COVID-19 delay, the Beijing Winter Olympics are just a year away. There is no way to sugarcoat this: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Olympic athletes will be de facto (...)
Dharamshala: The Central Board of Secondary Education announced the AISSCE result 2021on Friday, 30 July 2021 through its official website cbseresults.nic.in. The Tibetan schools recorded the highest ever pass percentage of 99.81 % with 27 Tibetan students scoring 95 % and above this year. Of (...)
Free Tibet 3rd August 2021 Targeted programmes are aimed at students aged from eight to 16 New targeted military camps for the younger generation of Tibetans have been established in Nyingtri (Ch:Linzhi), the southeastern Tibetan region across the border from Arunachal Pradesh in India. They (...)
Dharamshala: His Holiness the Dalai Lama will give a short general teaching from approximately 9 am to 10 am (Indian Standard Time) on 11 August for a group of Indonesian school students followed by a question and answer session organized by a Buddhist community Kadam Choeling Indonesia. The (...)
William Gallo for Voice of America SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – In six months, throngs of foreign media will arrive in Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympics. They may be welcomed by a wide-ranging Chinese government campaign to foment public anger against Western journalists, who have been increasingly (...)