Application invitation to Researchers and Visiting Fellows to the Tibet Policy Institute of the Central Tibetan Administration The Tibet Policy Institute is happy to invite researchers and visiting fellows to apply for limited post at the TPI under a project to groom the Tibetan researchers. (...)
[dalailama.com] Hanover, Germany, 20 September 2013 – The concluding engagement of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s current tour of Europe was a visit to the Vien Giac Vietnamese Temple in Hanover. On arrival he recognised several friends among the monks who came to receive him as he stepped out of (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The EU Special Representative for Human Rights, Mr Stavros Lambrinidis, who went to Tibet during an official visit to China from 9-18 September, noted worrying trends in key areas of human rights concern. Mr Lambrinidis’s five-day visit to Tibetan areas incorporated into China’s (...)
[Northamptonshire Telegraph] Corby is to forge links with a Tibetan community after the borough council agreed to adopt the remote village of Rigul. The move means the council has become the first in Britain to formally partner a community in Tibet and it is hoped other places in the UK will (...)
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DHARAMSHALA: A prominent international literary organisation has urged the Chinese government to allow Tibetans to preserve their own language and culture, which it said contains the important world heritage of Tibetan Buddhism. The PEN International, a worldwide association of writers founded (...)
[The Associated Press] SAN LEANDRO, California: The mayor of San Leandro has suspended the city’s plan to raise China’s flag to mark the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Mayor Stephen Cassidy said Thursday that the city doesn’t fly the flags of other nations at City Hall, and that a (...)
vendredi 20 septembre 2013 par jamphel — Flash News
DHARAMSHALA: Foreign correspondents working in China said reporting conditions have worsened over the past year, according to a new survey by Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China which finds the Chinese government has increasingly resorted to threats and intimidation against foreign media. The (...)
By Edward Lucas [European Voice] Lithuania has repaid the Dalai Lama for his support during the last days of the Soviet Union, by resisting Chinese arm-twisting If I were the Chinese Communist Party, I’d think twice before picking a fight with Lithuania. The pro-independence leadership in (...)
Hanover, Germany, 19 September: This morning His Holiness the Dalai Lama was invited to visit the small town of Wunstorf twenty kms or so to the west of Hanover. The Mayor of Wunstorf, Rolf-Axel Eberhardt and his wife received him on arrival at the Town Hall, while a group of young music (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Kashag today reaffirmed its commitment to pursue the Middle-Way Approach, describing it as only way way forward to resolve the issue of Tibet and source of growing global support. “In view of changing situation in Tibet and the world, the Kashag clearly recognises the Middle-Way (...)