By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 22 Jan: Marco Rubio, the US Senator from Florida and a staunch critic of Beijing was unanimously confirmed by the US Senate as America’s new Secretary of State on Monday following Donald Trump’s return to power as the 47th US President.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 21, Jan: Activists from Tibet, Hong Kong and Uyghur have denounced the presence of Chinese Vice President Han Zheng at the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the US on Monday, “calling on the US to stand firm in its commitment to human rights and ensure that its policy reflects its democratic value.”
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 20 Jan: India’s primary agency responsible for monitoring and studying earthquakes, the National Centre for Seismology(NCS) under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India has also used China’s colonial term “Xizang” instead of “Tibet” in its reports and updates on the recent earthquake and the aftershocks in occupied Tibet amidst growing protest from Tibetan diaspora against the use of the Chinese colonial term in the international arena.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 17, Jan: Roughly six months after announcing plans for mapping original Tibetan place names to counter China’s cartographic attempts to erase historical Tibetan names, the Central Tibetan Administration(CTA) under Sikyong(President) Penpa Tsering has now announced a new book project to complement the initiative yesterday on CTA’s Instagram handle, Tibetdotnet.
By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 15, Jan: China has become the world’s second-largest lithium reserve holder following its breakthrough in lithium extraction amidst the growing concern to sustain China’s supply chain to leverage its position as the world’s largest producer of electric vehicles(EVs).
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 14 Jan: Uzra Zeya, the US Special Coordinator for Tibetan issues, urged China to resume dialogue with the Dalai Lama and his representatives without any preconditions in her departure speech as she concluded her tenure as the Under Secretary of the US and as US Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues on Saturday.
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DHARAMSALA, Jan 14: On the first day of the Maha Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest religious gathering, a prayer service was held for the victims of the January 7 earthquake in Tibet, the tremors of which were felt in Nepal and the northern Indian state of Bihar.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 13 Dec: The UK’s Chancellor Rachel Reeves has secured agreements worth 600 million pounds over the next five years for the British Economy with China at the 11th UK-China Economic and Financial Dialogue on 11th Dec in Beijing with trade and access to Chinese markets taking precedence over Human Rights Concerns in Tibet.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 10 Jan: UK based Tibetans and Tibetan groups have urged Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the UK, to ensure trade and access to Chinese markets do not take precedence over the rights of the Tibetan people in an open letter before she heads to China to seek economic ties as part of UK’s quest for growth amidst major setbacks at home.
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DHARAMSALA, 10 Jan: After the English section of the Voice Of America(VOA), the largest and the oldest international broadcasting state media network funded by the federal government of the US ran a headline that read, “Earthquake in China kills at least 126 near Mount Everest,” referring to the 7 January earthquake in Tingri, Tibet in the Chinese occupied Tibet, the spokesperson for the US Embassy in New Delhi said that the US Government funds VOA but it “maintains editorial independence from the US government.”
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