NAYANIMA BASU for The Print India is now realising that the Tibet issue cannot be just used as diplomatic or political leverage against China, but needs resolution. This will be beneficial for the entire region, according to Penpa Tsering, President-elect of the Tibetan government-in-exile. The (...)
Geneva: Researchers from the Central Tibetan Administration highlighted China’s systematic violations of human rights and destruction of culture and natural environment in Tibet on the second day of the 3-day virtual event on 17-point Agreement & 70 Years of Oppression in Tibet organised by (...)
Geneva: The Tibet Bureau Geneva kickstarted its 3-day Virtual Event on 17-Point Agreement & 70 Years of Oppression in Tibet with a panel discussion titled “China’s Politics of Liberation and Non-Compliance: Drawing Parallels from Tibet and Hong Kong” on Friday, 21 May 2021. Representative (...)
Reuters 24 May 2021 The top political leader of Tibet’s government in exile said on Friday that there is an urgent threat of “cultural genocide” in Tibet, and the international community must stand up to China ahead of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Penpa Tsering, who was this month elected (...)
Washington DC: The Office of Tibet-DC and the Board of the Tibetan Community Development Fund, a non-profit 501(c)(3), would like to acknowledge and thank Late Tsewang Topgay la for his generous donation of USD $887,969.54. The Board will honour the donation as described in his will: in loving (...)
Dharamshala: Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama has expressed his sadness on learning that his good friend, Shri Sunderlal Bahuguna had passed away at the age of 94. “I offer my condolences to his family,” he wrote, “as well as his many admirers and friends, and I will offer (...)
Geneva: A father of two young sons, Tsering Wangdu, a resident of Winterthur, Switzerland concluded his solo cycle rally before the UN carrying an appeal to the Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva on 21 May 2021. 46-year-old Wangdu started his solo-cycle rally on 7 May (...)
London: The Scottish Parliament’s Cross-Party Group on Tibet (CPGT) issued a two-page statement on Climate Change on The Third Pole, a summary and analysis of recent scientific findings by the Scottish Centre for Himalayan Research (SCHR), the University of Aberdeen for the Cross-Party Group on (...)
by T. G. Arya* China has, on 21 May, published yet another White Paper on Tibet, “Tibet Since 1951: Liberation, Development and Prosperity”1. It says, “On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Tibet’s peaceful liberation, we are publishing this white paper to review Tibet’s history and (...)