Exile

By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 14 April: Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) Toronto and SFT-India staged protests outside the Chinese consulate in Toronto and the Vietnamese embassy in Delhi respectively today, demanding an investigation into the suspicious death of Tulku Hungkar Dorjee while in Chinese custody in Vietnam.

By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 9 April: India is preparing to introduce its first-ever school curriculum for Buddhist monasteries in the contested Himalayan region bordering China-occupied Tibet to unify education programs and foster patriotism to insulate religious learning from China’s influence, as reported by various Indian media outlets.

By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 8 April: The first ever Tibetan-language anthology film “State of Stateless: Tales from the Tibetan Diaspora” presented by Drung Tibetan Filmmakers’ collective, will be screening at Gold Cinema, Dharamsala on 18 and 19th April at 6:00 pm, according to a post by Drungfilms’ on its official Instagram account.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA 4 April: The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) declared that Kham Driru in occupied Tibet has “turned into one of the most tightly-controlled regions in Tibet” with harsh security clampdown, amounting to crimes against humanity, The TCHRD declared in its latest special report on Kham Driru.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA 1 April: “Freedom Trail,” a six-day trekking programme retracing the historic route taken by the Dalai Lama during his escape to India on March 31 1959, following the Chinese occupation of Tibet, commenced in Tawang on 31 March.

DHARAMSALA, 29 March: In a historic first, the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile (TPiE) elected Yeshi Wangmo as the new Chief Justice Commissioner(CJC) of the Tibetan Supreme Justice Commission (TSJC), making her the first woman to hold the post of the highest of the judicial organ of the Tibetan government-in-exile, officially known as the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA).

DHARAMSALA, 29 March: China has made sweeping claims in its latest white paper on Tibet, declaring that “all-round and historic progress” has been made in human rights in Tibet, accusing the West of “misunderstandings” and “prejudices” about human rights conditions in Tibet. 

DHARAMSALA, 26 March: Tibetan Youth from around the world will collectively offer a long-life prayer offering (Tenshug) to His Holiness the Dalai Lama later this year in September, Tibetan Youth Tenshug(TYT) has announced.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA 25 March: From operating at a loss to generating surplus revenue, Men-Tsee-Khang, the Tibetan Medical and Astro. Institute, has substantially reduced its outstanding payment from 330 million Indian rupees to 70 million Indian rupees.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA 19 March: The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), in its latest report, says China’s new “ethnic unity law,” introduced during the ‘Two Sessions’—the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) annual political meetings in Beijing—might lead to further erosion of the rights of Tibetans in occupied Tibet.