Today the outgoing secretary Mr. Karma Tenzin (a.k.a) Ngawang handed over all responsibilities to the new incoming secretary, Mr. Dava Tsering. For the last 5 years and 8 months Karma Tenzin has served in the capacity of secretary of the Tibet Culture and Information Center also known as the (...)
Switzerland: Tibetan Community of Switzerland and Liechtenstein organised a cycle rally in protest against the 2022 Winter Olympics in China. In honor and respect to all Tibetan martyrs, over 80 cyclists wore T-shirts imprinted photos of Tibetan self-immolators, and rallied from Zurich city’s (...)
Bhandara, Maharashtra: An official handing and taking over ceremony between Outgoing Settlement Officer of Bhandara Norgyeling Tibetan Settlement Mr. Migmar Tashi and newly appointed Settlement Officer Mr. Kalsang Sichoe was held on 26th and 27th August 2021 in the presence of official witness (...)
With the aims to re-strengthen and re-ignite the flame of Tibbat Mukti Sadhna in this crucial time, the Core Group for Tibetan Cause – India (CGTC-I) in coordination with India Tibet Coordination Office (ITCO) continued its campaign to visit and meet with Indian Tibet Support Groups in (...)
Dharamshala: Sikyong Penpa Tsering presided over the inaugural ceremony of the memorial bust of soldier Nyima Tenzing that was organised by the Department of Security, CTA at 9am today at Lhagyal Ri, near Tsuglagkhang, Mcleod Ganj, Himachal Pradesh. He was joined by Secretary Karma Rinchen, (...)
Chinese authorities have arrested around 60 Tibetans including 19 monks and about 40 lay people in the Dza Wonpo in Karze (Ch: Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province last week for keeping pictures of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The news came several months after restrictions (...)
Dharamshala: A brief handover ceremony was held at the Department of Religion and Culture today between the department’s new Secretary Chime Tseyang and outgoing Secretary Tsegyal Chukya Dranyi. Secretary Chime Tseyang will formally take charge of the Department of Religion and Culture from 1 (...)
By Claude Arpi, Asian Age – 30 August 2021 China wants us to believe that it liberated Tibet 70 years ago. It didn’t really happen like that. It’s true that on May 23, 1951, Tibet and China signed an “Agreement on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet”, also known as the 17-Point Agreement; (...)
Dharamshala: The Department of Education (DoE) of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) is happy to launch 18 audiobooks, 5 nursery rhyme animations and the 5th episode of the Forgetful Aku Phagpa animation series under the Tibetan Resilience Project (TRP) funded by USAID. All the audiobooks (...)
Reported by Sangyal Kunchok for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Dorjee Damdul. Written in English by Richard Finney. Middle School students Gyuldrak and Yangrik had opposed a new Chinese education policy mandating classroom instruction only in the Chinese language. Authorities in (...)