Tibet

By Tsering Choephel

DHARAMSALA, 3 July: Chinese authorities in Tibet have intensified their control and monitoring of Tibetans’ communication with people outside Tibet, Radio Free Asia(RFA) reported on Friday.

By Yungdung Tsomo
DHARAMSALA, 27 June: The Chinese authorities are randomly searching monasteries and forcing monks in Ngachu prefecture and Shentsa county in the traditional Tibetan province of Kham to pledge their allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party and to cut all ties to the “separatist” Dalai Lama, reported Radio Free Asia(RFA).

By Yungdung Tsomo

DHARAMSALA 20 June: Chinese authorities have made it mandatory for Tibetans to be critical of their Tibetan Spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama in a job recruitment announcement in Gonjo in the traditional Tibetan province of Kham.

By Tsering Choephel
DHARAMSALA, 17 June: Tibetan classes for all primary schools is to be banned from 2024, announced the Kanzi Prefecture Bureau of Education in a notice in March according to a report by freetibet.org.

By Tsering Choephel

DHARAMSALA, 14 June: The harvest of the prized caterpillar fungus, locally known as Yartsa Gunbu (summer grass, winter worm) – found only in Tibet and its neighbouring Himalayan country of Nepal and Bhutan – has been declining continuously for years, reported Radio Free Asia(RFA) on Saturday.

By Tsering Choephel

DHARAMSALA, 14 June: Jeopardising the future of Tibetan students, China has imposed Mandarin as the medium for college entrance exams, reports Radio Free Asia (RFA).

By Tsering Choephel

DHARAMSALA, 3 June: Tibetan residents in Rebkong County in the Traditional Tibetan Province of Amdo have been ordered to move out by the Chinese authorities for the purpose of making the area clear for construction of a hydropower dam, Radio Free Asia reported on 30 May.

By: Tsering Choephel

DHARAMSALA, 05 May: A Tibetan secondary school teacher who had been detained incommunicado since 10th April has been released from detention but is being held under house arrest and terminated from his employment, reports Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy(TCHRD).

By Tsering Choephel
DHARAMSALA, 05 May: Despite criticisms from Tibetan scholars and educators “Chinese authorities quietly began enforcing an assimilationist education system in Tibetan primary schools across restive Ngaba region in the Traditional Tibetan Province of Amdo..”