Exile

Exiled Tibetans Gear Up for 2025-2026 General Election: EC Sets Preliminary Polls on February 1

By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSHALA 7 October: The Election Commission of the Central Tibetan Administration, commonly referred to as the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, today announced the official schedule for the 2025-2026 Tibetan General Election. The Preliminary Election will take place on 1st February 2026, followed by the Final Election on 26th April 2026. 

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TYC to Host Own Rangzen Conference After Decade-Plus Absence

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA  6 Oct: The Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) has passed a resolution to hold its own Rangzen Conference in an effort to revive and sustain the Tibetan movement for the complete independence of Tibet from China’s colonial rule. This initiative is being launched while the International Rangzen Conference continues to be organised independently by Rangzen advocates on a voluntary basis.

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CTA Celebrates Gandhi Jayanti with Tribute to Non-Violence Principles, Draws Parallels with Dussehra’s Victory of Truth

By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSHALA, 2 Oct: The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), commonly known as the Tibetan government-in-exile, today celebrated the 156th birth anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi by honouring his principles of non-violence and satyagraha, values that the exile polity upholds as guiding inspirations in its own struggle.

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Tibetan diaspora protests, Dharamsala stays conspicuously silent on PRC’s 76th founding anniversary

DHARAMSALA, 1 Oct: As Tibet remains under Chinese occupation and continues to be ranked as the least free place in the world, China marked the 76th founding anniversary of the People’s Republic of China(PRC) today with a flag-raising ceremony held at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, the capital of China. This was at the very square where 39 years ago today, the Chinese government violently cracked down on pro-democracy protesters on June 3–4, 1989. Unabated, China continues to remain a “global threat” to press freedom, with systematic repression in China and its occupied territories and its propaganda reaching worldwide through its transnational repression.

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RTYC DHASA Condemns Chinese Artist’s Firework Art Stunt Display in Tibet

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA 24 Sept: The Regional Tibetan Youth Congress (RTYC), Dharamsala, today strongly condemned Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang and the outdoor clothing brand Arc’teryx, owned by Chinese sportswear giant Anta Sports, for their reckless and insensitive “Ascending Dragon” firework display, which was conducted along mountain ridges in Ralung Village, Shigatse, in occupied Tibet.

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Tibetan Youths Launch 450km Peace Marathon from Ottawa to Toronto

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA 23 Sept: Four Pemakopa (Pad-ma dkod pa) youths from the Tibetan community in Canada have launched the 6th Peace Rally Marathon for Tibet on Monday, running from Ottawa to Toronto. The initiative calls on the Canadian government and the international community to honour His Holiness the Dalai Lama on his 90th birthday, safeguard Tibet as the “Third Pole,” and to advocate for the release of Tibetan political prisoners in Chinese custody.

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Centre for Middle Way Initiative Commemorates 28th Anniversary of Tibet Policy Shift

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA 19 September: The Centre for Middle Way Initiative commemorated the official adoption of the Middle way policy  by the Tibetan parliament in exile on 18 September 1997 in pursuit of a negotiated solution to the Tibetan issue with China, marking the transition of its policy from seeking independence for Tibet to seeking genuine autonomy as enshrined in the Chinese constitution, on Thursday.

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Ladakh CRO Hosts Tibet Awareness Session for 40 ITBP Trainers

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA 19 Sept: The Chief Representative Office (CRO) of Ladakh in the Sonamling Settlement today hosted over 40 trainers from Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) at the CRO Hall for an awareness programme on the life and works of the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet — an initiative that also resonates with Tibet’s historical assertions at a time of heightened Chinese expansionism along the Indo-Tibet border.

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