Dharamsala: Deputy Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile, Acharya Yeshi Phuntsok on Thursday paid his last respects to Member of Parliament and member of the All-Party Indian Parliamentarian Forum for Tibet (APIPFT) Shri Pandit Ram Swaroop Sharma at the latter’s residence in Joginder Nagar. (...)
Brahma Chellaney Japan Times 18 March 2021 The “Quad,” as its recent virtual summit underscored, has come a long way in cementing a strategic coalition of the leading democracies of the Indo-Pacific region. Comprising Australia, India, Japan and the United States, it has gradually sharpened its (...)
Reported by Lobsang Gelek for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Tibet’s Beijing-appointed Panchen Lama in a speech this month slammed what he called foreign interference in Tibetan affairs, saying that “anti-China forces” care nothing for the (...)
Washington DC: This week, Tufts University announced its plan to close its Confucius Institute. This is all largely thanks to the tireless advocacy and organizing by the Tibetan Association of Boston, Students for Free Tibet, Boston Uyghur Association, Tibet Action Institute, Hong Kong Social (...)
Dharamshala: Chaired by the Speaker Mr Pema Jungney, the fourth day of the 10th session of the 16th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile convened with the continuation of the debate on the official solidarity motion on the critical situations inside Tibet from the previous session. 15 Parliamentarians (...)
Dharamshala: Addressing the 51st COVID-19 taskforce briefing, Dr. Tsamchoe updated the pandemic status of the exile Tibetan community, reporting 13 new cases.The new cases reported are from the region-wise: 3 from Bylakuppe, 5 from Clementown, 1 from Ladakh, 1 from Miao, 2 from Mundgod, and 1 (...)
Geneva: In the ongoing 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council, a Tibetan representative called on the UN Human Rights Council to bring China into account to end all its repressive policies in Tibet. Speaking on behalf of the Society for Threatened Peoples, Kalden Tsomo, UN Advocacy Officer (...)
Public Service Commission of Central Tibetan Administration announces 1 vacancy for a bilingual Sino-Tibetan research fellow at Tibet Policy Institute(TPI) under the Department of Information and International Relations, CTA. For details regarding eligibility criteria, test and documents (...)
Michael Martina, Yew Lun Tian, Humeyra Pamuk Reuters 17 March 2021 WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – The United States will take an uncompromising stance in talks with China on Thursday in Alaska, officials have said, in the first face-to-face meetings between senior officials from the two rivals (...)
WION 16 March 2021 Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday acknowledged that China will pose a “great challenge” for the UK as he set out the findings of a major review of foreign policy. Addressing the British parliament, Johnson said that the UK has “led the international community in expressing (...)