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Diplomatic Response from US Embassy After VOA’s “China” Reference in Tibet Quake

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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CTA President, Tibetan NGO’s Callout Media Outlets for Misleading Headlines, calling Tibet “Xizang”

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 9 Jan: Penpa Tsering, the Sikyong (President) of the Central Tibetan Administration(CTA), urged the international media outlets to use the term “Tibet” instead of “Xizang” while reporting on the earthquake in Tibet, in his statement after a public prayer service at the Dalai Lama temple to mourn the earthquake’s victim, yesterday.

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ITCM Delegation Urges PM Modi to Address China’s Yarlung Tsangpo Dam Project

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

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