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By Tsering Choephel

DHARAMSALA, 16 Feb: A bipartisan bill promoting a Resolution to the Tibet-China Dispute Act, known as the Resolve Tibet Act, cleared the US House of Representatives on Thursday, edging a step closer to becoming law in the US.

By Tsering Choephel

DHARAMSALA, 1 Feb: A video widely circulating on social media shows Ladakhi nomads in a confrontation with several Chinese armies equipped with armoured vehicles. According to media reports, the incident occurred on January 2 in the Kakjung area of the Nyoma constituency, adjacent to the Chushul Valley in Ladakh close to China-occupied Tibet near the long-contested border between India and China— known as the Line of Actual Control (LAC).

DHARAMSALA, 1 Feb: At the third meeting of the 45th Session of the UN’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR), 20 countries, such as Australia, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Lithuania, Montenegro, Norway, New Zealand, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and the US, expressed concern about China’s human rights violations in Tibet. They put forward 20 recommendations for China to improve its actions, such as allowing unfettered access to Tibet, releasing arbitrarily detained Tibetans, respecting the religious and cultural rights of Tibetans, and calling for the immediate abolition of colonel boarding schools in Tibet. 

DHARAMSALA, Jan 24: A total of 20 member states of the United Nations (UN) expressed concern over human rights violations in Tibet at the third meeting of the 45th Session of the working group on Universal Periodic Review where China underwent its fourth review. 

By Tsering Choephel

DHARAMSALA 18 Jan: Tibetan rights groups anticipate that UN member states will engage in greater scrutiny of China’s human rights violations and adopt strong language on Tibet during the 45th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group, scheduled to be held in Geneva from 22 January to 2 February 2024.

By Tsering Choephel

DHARAMSALA, 4 Jan: Thermo Fisher Scientific, the US-based biotechnology company, announced discontinuing its sales of DNA collection kits to Chinese authorities in Tibet following rigorous campaigns from rights groups and pressure from the US Congress, as reported by axios.com Wednesday.

By Tsering Choephel

DHARAMSALA, 28 Dec: The helmsman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Xi Jinping, reiterated the inevitable reunification of China with Taiwan in his speech at the 130th birth anniversary of Mao Zedong held at the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, on 26 December, according to a South China Morning Post report.

By Tsering Choephel

DHARAMSALA, 27 Dec: The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is reportedly resurrecting its collaboration with Pakistan to support terrorist groups, exert pressure on New Delhi and redirect India-deployed army troops from the Ladakh border to the Kashmir region, as per an Intelligence Agency report cited by India Today on Tuesday.

By Tsering Choephel

DHARAMSALA, 20 Dec: The European Parliament’s resolution condemning “the repressive assimilation policies throughout China, especially the boarding school system in Tibet,” calling for immediate “abolishment of the system” received a landslide majority votes, according to various reports.

By Tsering Choephel

DHARAMSALA, 13 Dec: A new set of satellite images reveals an escalation of China’s tactical settlement and road network building project in the contested area of Jakarlung Valley, Bhutan’s remote region in the north. The incursion occurs amidst the ongoing border talks between the two countries to demarcate their boundary formally, reported chatamhouse.org.