DHARAMSALA, 19 Jan: As the world continues to grapple with COVID-19 pandemic, an independent panel commissioned by the World Health Organization(WHO) has declared that the catastrophe could have been averted had China and the WHO acted faster during the early stages of its outbreak.
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DHARAMSALA, 15 Jan: Two Tibetan women have made it to South Asia Speaks 2021, a mentorship program for early-career writers in South Asia.
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DHARAMSALA, 14 Jan: Human Rights Watch has said in its 2021 annual report that “the Chinese government’s authoritarianism was on full display in 2020” and called out China for continuing to severely restrict religious freedom, speech, movement, and assembly of Tibetans.
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DHARAMSALA, 13 Jan: The US has called off the planned visit of its UN ambassador Kelly Craft’s visit to Taiwan at the last minute, a trip that Beijing warned the US will pay a heavy price for.
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DHARAMSALA, 8 Jan: Twenty-five exiled Tibetans in India have tested positive for Covid-19 in the past week, the Covid- 19 Task Force of the Central Tibetan Administration said.
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DHARAMSALA, 7 Jan: A visit of a team of international experts to study the origins of COVID-19 to China stands in the limbo as China backtracks its decision to allow the expedition.
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DHARAMSALA, 7 Jan: China will soon launch the first Fuxing bullet train in its occupied Tibet connecting Tibet’s capital, Lhasa and Nyingchi, Tibetan town close to Arunachal Pradesh border.
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DHARAMSALA, 5 Jan: The Tibetan spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, as well as the political head of the Tibetan people, Dr Lobsang Sangay and the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, have extended their congratulations to Nancy Pelosi on her re-election as the US House Speaker.
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DHARAMSALA, 4 Jan: After an official appointed by the local election commissioner in Ladakh to assist illiterate and elderly Tibetans to fill up their ballot paper was caught engaging in the improper or dishonest practice, the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of the Central Tibetan Administration(CTA) assured that the reported election irregularity has been corrected.
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DHARAMSALA, Jan 3: Tibetans across the world cast their vote in the preliminary elections of the Sikyong or political leader of the Tibetan people and members of the 17th Tibetan Parliament in exile today.
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