DHARAMSHALA: The monk who died after setting himself on fire early this morning in Nepal has been identified as 38-year-old Karma Nyidhon Gyatso. Eyewitnesses said the monk set himself on fire after offering prayers and 200 lamps at Bouddhanath Stupa in Kathmandu. The police rushed him to (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Department of Education has announced scholarship for Common Test Admission (CAT) coaching as part of its USAID programme. The CAT is a computer based test held in India for students aspiring to study business administration. The applicants have to find their coaching centres (...)
By AMY YEE [The New York Times] DHARAMSALA, India — In a spacious classroom in this northern Indian hill town, 20 young Tibetan men and women sit in front of computers as the summer monsoon rains fall outside. A woman instructs them in Tibetan on how to use Microsoft Word and Gmail, while other (...)
By Simon Denyer [The Washington Post] August 2, 2013 BEIJING — In the offices of China’s Communist Party newspaper, rows of analysts sit at computer screens poring over data that is stripped off the Internet. Every comment made by the 591 million Chinese “netizens” is analyzed at the People’s Daily (...)
When Mitch Moxley arrived in Beijing in 2007 to work for China’s largest English-language daily, he discovered life in the Chinese media could be very strange indeed. [The Atlantic] MITCH MOXLEY AUG 3 2013, 9:00 AM ET Editor’s note: Mitch Moxley arrived in Beijing in the spring of 2007 to work (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Public Service Commission of the Central Tibetan Administration has issued announcements for job vacancies at the Department of Health, Department of Education, Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR), Department of Security and the Tibet Policy Institute (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Department of Home of the Central Tibetan Administration has announced its second specialised skills training opportunity for unemployed Tibetan youth as part of its Youth Empowerment Support (YES) program for 2013-14. It will offer vocational courses such as hairdressing, food (...)
MILAN, Italy: Kalon Dolma Gyari has called on the Tibetan community in Italy to shoulder greater responsibility in the sustainable development of needy Tibetan settlements in India. In her first tour to the West since becoming Kalon for Department of Home, Kalon Gyari introduced the (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Dalai Lama Institute for Higher Education in Bangalore has introduced degree programmes in BA, B.Com, and BCA studies under its outreach and BA Honours in Tibetan and Chinese Languages under specialised programmes. This is part of a memorandum of understanding signed between (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Tibetan leadership in Dharamsala yesterday paid a courtesy call on Mr Rajnath Singh, the president of Bharatiya Janata Party, a political party of India. Khenpo Sonam Tenphel, the deputy speaker of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, and officiating Sikyong Kalon Pema Chhinjor met (...)