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 (...)
Dharamsala: In the evening of the 4 September 2021, Health Secretary and Chairman of the Covid Task-Force Mr. Palden Dhondup, and Delek Hospital Chief Administrator, Mr. Dawa Phunkyi of the Central COVID-19 Emergency Task-Force were received by the Mainpat Tibetan Settlement Office led by Ms. (...)