DARJEELING: Governor of West Bengal, His Excellency M.K. Narayan paid a visit to the Tibetan settlement in Darjeeling during his visit to the area on 12 June. He visited the Tibetan Refugee Self-Help Centre and was welcomed to the Tibetan settlement by the settlement officer Sonam Sangmo and (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Environmental and Development Desk of the Central Tibetan Administration expressed concern over a proposed exploration of oil and gas resources in Lhunphula basin in central Tibet. Sinopec Southern Exploration Company signed an agreement with the Oil and Gas Resources Research (...)
Press Release June 14, 2013 The Department of Education, in collaboration with National Geographic Explorer (NGX) Programme, USA will be starting a year-round school-based Science, Environmental Science and English Learning Programme for class VI to X students from July 2013 under its USAID (...)
(Dalai Lama.com) Sydney, Australia 13 June 2013 His Holiness the Dalai Lama left Auckland in the quiet before dawn today, but it was a beautiful morning when he landed in Sydney at the beginning of an eleven day visit to Australia. A sea of smiling faces awaited him as he emerged from the (...)
[Pacific Standard] The new jet-setting president may be giving the impression that China’s eyes are firmly fixed outward. But the co-authors of a recently revised book on the country in the 21st century insist that now, as forever, all politics remains local. Xi Jinping has been racking up the (...)
[dalailama.com] There will be live webcasts of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s teachings and public talks from Australia on June 14-23, 2013. All live events can be viewed atwww.youtube.com/user/DalaiLamainAustralia. All times are listed at local time zones. Sydney and Melbourne are Australian (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Two Tibetan singers from Meuruma in Ngaba in north-eastern Tibet have been arrested by Chinese police last year for writing and singing songs about His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Panchen Rinpoche, Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay, Kirti Rinpoche and the wave of self-immolation protest in (...)
By Thuy Ong SYDNEY | Thu Jun 13, 2013 (Reuters) – Tibetans setting themselves on fire to protest against Chinese rule are having little effect on Beijing’s policies, exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said on Thursday, while urging China to look harder at the reasons behind the (...)
[France 24] Chinese diplomats have been overtly threatening a FRANCE 24 reporter who spent a week in Tibet filming under cover, while their demands that his report “Seven Days in Tibet” be removed or altered continue to be refused. FRANCE 24 reporter Cyril Payen has been subjected to (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The European Parliament’s Tibet Group will be holding its 97th meeting by hosting a conference on the state of Tibet’s environment in Tibet in Brussels on 19 June. The conference, titled “Tibet’s Environment: Denuding, Degrading & Depopulating” hosted by MEPs Satu (...)