DHARAMSALA, 9 April: The US has announced sanctions against “seven Chinese supercomputing entities” for “conducting activities that are contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the US.”
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DHARAMSALA, 9 April: Tibetans in Dza Wonpo, a town in the traditional Tibetan province of Kham are said to be living under a heightened political climate as their homes are raided by the Chinese Counterterrorism Police since the custodial death of a teenage Tibetan monk from the region in Jan.
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DHARAMSALA, 8 April: MP Lobsang Choejor announced today that he has resigned from the parliament on “moral grounds” following former Kalon Tripa Prof Samdhong Rinpoche’s take on the parliament’s impeachment of the three Justice Commissioners of the Tibetan Supreme Justice Commission(TSJC).
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DHARAMSALA, 7 April: The US State Department has declared that the US and its allies are weighing a joint boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
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DHARAMSALA, 5 April: A prominent Tibetan monk-writer from Kirti monastery, Go Sherab Gyatso has been arbitrarily detained by the Chinese authorities on unknown charges.
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DHARAMSALA, 2 April: Seven leading pro-democracy advocates from Hong Kong, including the island’s father of democracy, Martin Lee was convicted for organizing and participating in an “unauthorised march” during anti-government protests in 2019 as the authorities in Hong Kong and Beijing continues to crack down on dissent.
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DHARAMSALA, 1 April: NASA has become the latest on the list to run afoul of politics and nationalist sentiment in China after it listed Taiwan as a separate country on its website.
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DHARAMSALA, 31 March: The Tibetan spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has expressed his delight after the Indian president underwent successful bypass surgery at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi on Tuesday.
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DHARAMSALA, 31 March: To revive the World Trade Organization(WTO), Britain’s international trade secretary has urged the world to “get tough on China,” and modernise the WTO that she says is “stuck in the 1990s.”
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DHARAMSALA, 31 March: As many as 14 countries have heavily criticised the World Health Organization’s (WHO) report on the origins of Covid-19 and concurred that the investigation was “significantly delayed and lacked access to complete, original data and samples.”
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