By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 13 Oct: The executive committee of the 15th Regional Tibetan Women’s Association (RTWA) in Dharamsala has suspended all official operations and returned its uniforms and local office keys to the Central Tibetan Women’s Association (TWA), citing fundamental objections to an open letter welcoming Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of his visit to India for the BRICS summit.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 9 Oct: China’s development of DeepZang, a Tibetan-language artificial intelligence model, has taken an explicitly political turn, with its founder pledging to advance the technology to promote state-directed ethnic integration. The announcement has brought into sharper focus concerns over how artificial intelligence could extend Chinese colonial control over Tibet into the digital sphere.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 14 Oct:  A Taiwanese nurse who travelled to Tibet said Chinese state security personnel questioned him about his military background, political views and personal history, according to Taiwanese media reports, offering a glimpse into the security scrutiny faced by visitors to Tibet under Chinese rule.

By Khedroob Thondup

Exile is sustained not only by resilience but also by the compassion of nations willing to shoulder the burdens of the displaced. For Tibetans, that nation has been India. In 1959, as tens of thousands of Tibetans fled across the Himalayas after the uprising in Lhasa, the Tibetan cabinet turned to Gyalo Thondup, the brother of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, with a desperate request: to approach Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for help. What followed was the beginning of one of the most extraordinary acts of solidarity in modern history—a commitment that began with a modest budget of US$100,000 and today stands at US$11,100,000