Dharamshala: Following his visit to Central School for Tibetans (CST) based in Shimla, Sikyong Penpa Tsering paid a visit to the Dolanji Bon Tibetan settlement in Solan on Tuesday where he received a private audience with 34th Kyabje Menri Trizin, spiritual head of Bon at Menri monastery. This (...)
CNN – 8 September 2021 Analysis by Nectar Gan and Steve George Even for a powerful authoritarian state, the speed and extent to which the Communist Party is expanding its reach into private lives in China has caught many off guard. Since celebrating its centennial with great fanfare in July, the (...)
Claude Arpi for Rediff News On June 8, China’s Core Leader Xi Jinping visited the Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province. Meeting a group of Tibetan villagers relocated in one of the Xiaogang villages (‘moderately well-off’ villages, looking more like ghettos), the general (...)
Dharamshala: Sikyong Penpa Tsering today visited the Central School for Tibetans (CST) based in Shimla and addressed the staff of the school. He is accompanied by Education Secretary Jigme Namgyal and Director Tsering Dhondup of Sambhota Tibetan School Society (STSS). The visit is part of his (...)
London: The Tibetan Community in Britain (TCB) commemorated their 50th founding anniversary at Old Town Hall Stratford, 29 The Broadway London. The Tibetan community in Britain was officially established in 1971 by a handful of Tibetans residing in the UK, one of the founding members included (...)
Chinese officials have arrested eight more Tibetans including six monks from Dza Wonpo Gaden Shedrup Monastery and two women from Dza Wonpo township, Sershul (Ch: Shiqu) county in Kham Kardze (Ch: Ganzi) on 3 September. The arrests last Friday follow two recent instances where police and (...)
The mental health desk of the Department of Health, CTA, completed its first batch of nurse training on counseling skills held from 30th August 2021 to 6th September 2021. The training was conducted in collaboration with Sangath, a mental health NGO based in Goa, India. The participants (...)
By Andrew Fisher, China File – 2 September 2021 Over the past year, government and non-governmental bodies around the world have focused attention on the ethnic demography of China’s far-western region of Tibet, often lumping it together with Xinjiang. On April 7, 2021, in its “List of issues in (...)