DHARAMSALA, March 27: Dhondup Wangchen, the self-taught Tibetan filmmaker-activist has been awarded a prestigious honour at the 11th annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy.
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DHARAMSALA, March 27: A Chinese court has sentenced the country’s former internet czar to 14 years in prison for bribery.
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DHARAMSALA, March 26: The US has accused China of “systematically” blocking access to Tibet to diplomats and foreign journalists, reports The Week.
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DHARAMSALA, March 26: A large number of Tibetans and supporters greeted visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping with protests at the tail end of his three-nation European tour as he landed in France amidst heightened security in the country on Sunday.
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DHARAMSALA, March 22: The 16th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile (TPIE) today approved Topgyal Tsering Zongkha, President Lobsang Sangay’s nomination for the Kalon (Minister) of the 15th Kashag (Cabinet).
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DHARAMSALA, March 14: The Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile called on the legislators to keep the interests of the entire 6 million Tibetans in their mind.
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DHARAMSALA, March 16: A former Tibetan political prisoner and his wife were secretly sentenced by a Chinese court on unknown charges.
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DHARAMSALA, March, 15: Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay and Speaker Pema Jungney, at a press conference held earlier today in Dharamsala, announced that the Kashag and Tibetan Parliament has decided to convene the third Special General Meeting of the Tibetans in October this year.
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Just six minutes after taking off from Addis Ababa on Sunday, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 lost contact with air traffic controllers and went down, killing everyone on board. In that moment, the world lost agents of change across multiple humanitarian and environmental movements. Many of the 149 passengers were headed to the fourth United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi. Among them were conference attendants leading work to end global hunger, take on plastic pollution in oceans, and make connections between climate change and gender inequity.
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DHARAMSALA, March 14: China has once again put on hold, a proposal at the UN (United Nations) to ban Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) Chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist.
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