DHARAMSALA, 9 Dec: Mt. Everest, the world’s highest mountain located at the Tibet-Nepal border, known in Nepali as Sagarmatha and Chomolungma in Tibetan is 86 cm taller than it’s previous measurement of 8848 Meters above sea level.
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DHARAMSALA, 8 Dec: The US has announced sanctions against 14 high-level Chinese officials for undermining democratic processes in Hong Kong.
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DHARAMSALA, 7 Dec: A Tibetan woman has been detained and intimidated for “illegal” WeChat posts by the Chinese authorities, Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), a rights group based in Dharamsala said Monday.
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DHARAMSALA, 4 Dec: The Covid- 19 Task Force of the Central Tibetan Administration has reported 47 new Covid-19 positive cases among exiled Tibetans in India and Nepal over the past week.
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DHARAMSALA, 3 Dec: Three prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activists; Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow, and Ivan Lam have been sentenced to varying prison terms by a court in the city for organising an unauthorised protest outside police headquarters in Wan Chai last June.
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DHARAMSALA, 2 Dec: Dharamshala International Film Festival (DIFF) and Drung Tibetan Filmmakers Collective have collectively announced a new initiative, Tibet Films – an online streaming platform to showcase films made by Tibetan filmmakers in the diaspora.
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DHARAMSALA, 2 Dec: A Chinese activist, popularly known as ‘Ink Girl’ for defacing a poster of Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2018 has reappeared in a video declaring that she’s on “the verge of breaking down” under overbearing restrictions and surveillance that the Chinese government has subjected her to.
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DHARAMSALA, 30 Nov: Tashi Wangdue announced Sunday that he is withdrawing his candidacy from the upcoming election for the new Sikyong (President) of the Tibetan people.
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DHARAMSALA, 30 Nov: China has announced that it will build a hydropower project on the Brahmaputra, known as the Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibetan that originates from Tibet and passes to Bangladesh via India.
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DHARAMSALA, 27 Nov: The Tibetan Parliament-in-exile(TPIE ) has announced that its 10th session will be held for a fifteen-day from 15 March 2021 to debate and to approve the annual budget of the CTA and to discuss the work reports of the seven departments of the Central Tibetan Administration.
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