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 (...)
dalailama.com Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India, 26 October 2021 As soon as His Holiness the Dalai Lama took his seat this morning, Philip P. DiStefano, Chancellor of the University of Colorado, Boulder, welcomed him to a conversation about compassion and dignity in schools. He noted how (...)
By Lopsang Gurung, Bitter Winter – 26 October 2021 On October 20, the readers of English-language Chinese propaganda mouthpiece Global Times could read the following news item: “Chinese officials spoke highly of the rapid development and prosperity of… Xizang Autonomous Region under the successful (...)
The arrest of a Tibetan New York city cop on spying charges plays into the community’s long-held suspicions that the People’s Republic is watching them by Lauren Hilgers, The Guardian, 26 October 2021 Tt was a pleasant, breezy day in late September 2020 when the FBI showed up outside the home of (...)
Washington DC: Office of Tibet Washington DC held a virtual meeting of Heads of North America Weekend Tibetan Language and Culture Schools on Saturday, October 23rd, 2021. It was attended by 28 school heads of 20 Weekend Schools namely Tibetan Associations of Capital area (CATA), New York & (...)