[Source: www.dalailama.com] Mexico City, Mexico 13 October 2013:Â Immediately after he had arrived at the Arena Ciudad de Mexico this morning His Holiness the Dalai Lama met with representatives of two local Buddhist groups. He was keen to explain to them that performing rituals and saying (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Chinese government has arrested a young Tibetan writer and his friend in Driru county in the Tibet Autonomous Region, where last Sunday over 60 Tibetan protesters were injured during a crackdown by security forces. Tsultrim Gyaltsen, 24, who used to write under pen name (...)
DHARAMSHALA; Cyclone Phailin with wind gust of 240 Km per hour which battered the eastern coast of India for days finally made its landfall near Gopalpur in Ganjam district on Saturday night and moved inward regions causing extensive damages to crops, homes and communication links on its way. (...)
[Source: Times of India / PTI] By Saibal Dasgupta BEIJING: Four Tibetans were killed and 50 wounded after Chinese security forces fired on a crowd of protesters at Driru in the Tibet Autonomous Region on Tuesday, according to Washington-based Radio Free Asia (RFA). Reports said Driru villagers were (...)
[Source: The Economist] LHASA: MORE than five years after violent mass protests rocked Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, the city remains in the grip of a severe security lockdown. The first week of October—the festive National Day holiday period when millions in China take the chance to travel to (...)
DHARAMSHALA: A two-day workshop on Health Information System (HIS 3) was held from 7 – 8 October at Hotel Tibet in Mcleod Ganj. The work shop was organised by the Health department of the Central Tibetan Administration. Over 20 nurses and health staff from 16 Tibetan settlements are (...)
[Source: dalailama.com] Mexico City, Mexico, 11 October 2013 – Following a brief farewell meeting with key organizers of his visit to Atlanta, His Holiness the Dalai Lama drove to the airport to board a flight to Mexico City. He was met on arrival by Marco Antonio Karam, founder and president of (...)
[Source: thethirdpole.net] Extensive mining is set to transform Tibet into an industrial landscape, with disastrous environmental and social impacts, argues Gabriel Laffite In his new book, Spoiling Tibet: China and Resource Nationalism on the Roof of the World, Gabriel Lafitte analyses the (...)
[Source: South China Morning Post] By Patrick Boehler Spain’s National Court has agreed to hear charges of genocide against former Chinese President Hu Jintao. On Thursday, the court’s criminal division ruled in favour of an appeal by Tibetan exile groups allowing the indictment of Hu, a request (...)