Dharamshala: Deputy Speaker Acharya Yeshi Phuntsok attended a panel discussion titled ‘Bharat-Tibet and China: its vivad and samadhan’, organized by Himalaya Pariwar, Himachal Pradesh on 21 September at Yongling School, Mcleod Ganj. The program started with a lamp lighting ceremony and (...)
Messina, Sicily, ITALY: “This is an extraordinary moment for our city. We’re happy to have you here and to feel your presence among us. My mission has been to bring you to Sicily to talk to us,” Mayor of Messina, … Continued
By Brook Larmer – The New York Times 13 September 2017 The four-lane highway leading out of the Sri Lankan town of Hambantota gets so little traffic that it sometimes attracts more wild elephants than automobiles. The pachyderms are intelligent … (...)
Dharamshala: Tibetan Career Centre (TCC), a unit of Youth Empowerment Support section, Department of Home, CTA conducted a week-long workshop on career awareness at ten different schools and community across the Northern Tibetan Settlements. The target audience for the program were unemployed … (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The 4th session of the 16th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile began today, expressing grave concerns at the deteriorating situation of human rights and religious freedom inside Tibet. In his opening remarks, Speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel noted the massive development projects taking … (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Zeng Rong, the spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in the United Kingdom on September 3 published a rebuttal (click here), to the hard-hitting op-ed titled ‘Tibet’s fragile ecosystem is in danger, China must change its flawed environmental policy,’ authored … (...)
chinafile.com The Chinese Party-state is building a social credit system for collecting information about all of its citizens by police, courts, and other institutions. This enables the government to reach into society to a degree unprecedented in history. According to … (...)
Delhi: The Tibet Policy Institute and Delhi based United Service Institute jointly hosted a workshop on ‘Tibet: Environment, Water Management, Division of the Plateau and China’s Ownership of Tibetan Buddhism’ on 15 September 2017 at the United Service Institute. Lt … (...)
By Rakesh Sood, Published in The Hindu, 18 September 2017 In history, defining moments like 9/11 that can be identified as markers of change are rare. More often, there are trend lines of slow-moving geopolitical changes which come together at … (...)