By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA , Dec 31: A delegation of the India-Tibet Cooperation Movement (ITCM), Vidarbha unit, submitted a memorandum to Nagpur District Collector Vipin Itankar today, urging India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take urgent steps against China’s recent approval of the construction of a massive hydropower project on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo, reported The Times of India
By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 30 Dec: China has deployed approximately 400 Military personnel at Larung Gar, the world’s largest Tibetan Buddhist Study Centre in occupied Tibet on 20 December, according to a report by the Central Tibetan Administration(CTA).
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By Ginger Duan
In July 2024, Jigme Gyaltsen Ethnic Vocational High School, which had operated independently for 30 years, announced its closure. Known as the best Tibetan-language educational institution and a private welfare school in the greater Tibetan region, it has now come to an end. The author of this article once served as an IT technician at the school, handling numerous digital archives and witnessing the establishment, struggles, development, and eventual forced closure of this institution on this land. Now living overseas, the author learned of the school’s shutdown. However, due to censorship, former colleagues and Tibetan friends could not convey their sorrow. The author took up the pen to write this detailed recollection.
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By: Gabriel Lafitte | Rukor At the end of 2024 an intensive scenario planning exercise on the future of Tibet was
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DHARAMSALA, 27 Dec: Canada Tibet Committee’s (CTC) Executive Director Sherap Therchin expressed disappointment and felt let down by the lack of support he and his colleagues received from the Tibetan community and the administration in exile after they were sanctioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Communist Government on Sunday, though they received overwhelming support from the Canadian Government and Parliament.
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DHARAMSALA 26, Dec: China has approved the construction of the world’s riskiest Hydropower project on Tibet’s longest river, Yarlung Tsangpo, which flows into India through Arunachal Pradesh (AP) as Siang River on Wednesday, according to an official statement by the Chinese state-run Xinhua News Agency.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 26 Dec: The Delek Hospital and the Association for Ophthalmic Cooperation in Asia (AOCA) based in Japan has jointly organised the 22nd free cataract surgery camp at the Delek Hospital near the Central Tibetan Administration entrance.
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DHARAMSALA, 26 Dec: Canada has “condemned China” and “expressed solidarity” with members of the Canada Tibet Committee and the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project, after the Chinese government sanctioned them on Sunday for speaking out about human rights.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 25 Dec: Hong Kong’s Deputy Commissioner of Police(National Security) announced a bounty worth HK$ 1 million each for information leading to the arrest of six pro-democracy overseas Hongkongers in the UK and Canada on Tuesday, reported the rthl.hk.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSHALA, 24 Dec: The British museum in London has been subject to growing criticism from Tibetan activists and rights groups after their repeated appeals to the museum to reinstate the name Tibet instead of the term “Xizang ” in its Silk Route exhibition fell on deaf ears.
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