By Kunal Purohit SCMP 20 May 2021 After a four-month voting process that saw 83,000 Tibetan refugees around the world cast their ballots, 54-year-old Penpa Tsering, a former speaker of the Tibetan parliament-in-exile, was declared the community’s new political leader. Tsering’s election as the (...)
By Vlagyiszlav Makszimov Euroactiv 18 May 2021 Budapest’s green mayor Gergely Karácsony, who recently announced his run for the prime ministerial post in the opposition primaries, has rejected the construction of the Fudan university on its planned site after talks with Innovation and Technology (...)
Dharamshala: In the final days of completing his 10-year tenure, CTA President Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay received a virtual farewell from members of Parliamentary Friends of Tibet Canada and Tibetan associations: MP Arif Virani, PFT chair, MP James Maloney, PFT vice chair, MP Garnett Genuis, (...)
Radio Free Asia 18 May 2021 Chinese authorities in Tibet’s regional capital Lhasa have sharply cut visiting hours to just three and a half hours for Buddhist devotees at the city’s Jokhang temple, while leaving the temple complex and major pilgrimage site open twice as long for tourists, (...)
Tokyo: The All Party Japanese Parliamentary Support Group for Tibet congratulated the newly-elected President of the Central Tibetan Administration Mr. Penpa Tsering. In his congratulatory message, Mr. Shimomura Hakubun, Japan’s former education minister and current chairman of the All Party (...)
Dharamshala, 19th May 2021: This morning, after His Holiness the Dalai Lama had smiled, waved and taken his seat in front of the cameras, Celesta Billeci, Executive Director of Arts & Lectures, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), introduced the occasion. “We’re living in a moment (...)
Moscow: Delegation of the local Tibetan community led by former abbot of Namgyal Monastery Jadho Rinpoche in Mongolia paid a visit to the Indian Embassy in Ulan Bator, Mongolia to offer the donation to Indian Prime ministers fund (PM CARES) to strengthen India’s fight against the deadly second (...)
Brussels: In an answer to a parliamentary question following a number of deaths of Tibetans in custody or shortly after their release as a direct result of torture in detention, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, condemned the use of torture and other inhuman or (...)
Geneva: The Tibet Bureau Geneva held a virtual panel discussion on 17 May to mark the 26th year of the enforced disappearance of Tibet’s 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima. Being forcibly abducted at age 6 on 17 May 1995 after his recognition by the Dalai Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima became (...)