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 (...)
ALTANTA, Georgia: His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Thursday joined two classes in the Emory University. The first was a Business studies class in which he told the students: “I know business and money are important, but how to make money I have no idea. However, for any human profession to be (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The US Congressional Executive Commission on China on Thursday released its 2013 Annual Report on human rights and rule of developments in China, including the situation in Tibet. The Commission documented the status of Sino-Tibetan Negotiations, Tibetan self-immolations and the (...)