Taipei: Representative Kelsang Gyaltsen of the Office of Tibet based in Taiwan attended the inaugural ceremony of the Mongolian and Tibetan Film Festival 2021 in Taipei organised by Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture on 29 October. Other guests at the inaugural ceremony include staff from the (...)
Bolzano: Sikyong Penpa Tsering of the Central Tibetan Administration met with Dr Arno Kompatscher, President of South Tyrol, on Thursday, 28 October at Bolzano. Sikyong was accompanied by DIIR Secretary Karma Choeying and Representative Chhimey Rigzin of OOT Geneva, during the meeting. In his (...)
Reported by Sangyal Kunchok for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Chinese authorities are banning public discussion of a popular Tibetan religious teacher six years after his death in a Sichuan prison, removing him from official religious (...)
Dharamshala: Addressing the 83rd Central Taskforce briefing on Covid-19, Dr Tsamchoe updated the overall Covid status in the Tibetan community across India and Nepal, reporting 32 new cases and 2 deaths from the Covid. Among the new cases reported, 22 are male and 10 are female. The oldest (...)
Dharamshala: As part of his first official engagement abroad since taking charge, Sikyong Penpa Tsering met with Roland Psenner, President of Eurac Research, Dr Gunther Cologna and other researchers at Eurac Research in Bolzano, South Tyrol yesterday, 27 October. Sikyong was accompanied by (...)
By IANS – 27 October 2021 To adapt to the effects of climate change impacting the Tibetan Plateau—the world’s ‘third pole’—a group of Tibetans will explain its role in the global climate system and why it should be part of the conversation at the upcoming two-week United Nations conference, COP26, in (...)
Radio Free Asia-Reported by Sangyal Kunchok and Taring Tenzin Norbu for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Chinese tourists must show only negative COVID tests, while Tibetan travelers are often barred from entry. Tourists from China are (...)
BEIJING: China has created fresh internal and external mechanisms to further monitor and control the Uyghur population in the Western province of Xinjiang by instituting a new system of involving ‘managers’ who are responsible for monitoring Uyghur households, creating fake families from the Han (...)
Reuters COPENHAGEN, Oct 26 (Reuters) – A Danish election candidate said 10 election posters of himself standing next to the Tibetan flag were removed shortly after he put them up outside the Chinese Embassy in a suburb of the capital Copenhagen. Thomas Rohden, a candidate in upcoming local (...)
Delhi: Sikyong Penpa Tsering of the Central Tibetan Administration left for Italy today from New Delhi. In Italy, Sikyong Penpa Tsering will attend the conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) on 29 October in Rome. The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) — a body (...)