Exile

By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 17, Jan: Roughly six months after announcing plans for mapping original Tibetan place names to counter China’s cartographic attempts to erase historical Tibetan names, the Central Tibetan Administration(CTA) under Sikyong(President) Penpa Tsering has now announced a new book project to complement the initiative yesterday on CTA’s Instagram handle, Tibetdotnet.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 14 Jan: Uzra Zeya, the US Special Coordinator for Tibetan issues, urged China to resume dialogue with the Dalai Lama and his representatives without any preconditions in her departure speech as she concluded her tenure as the Under Secretary of the US and as US Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues on Saturday.

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.”

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 7 Jan: The Education Department of the Central Tibetan Administration(CTA) began its 8th General Conference on Education today at the Sikyong hall here at Gangchen-Kyishong, the exile headquarters of the Tibetan people.

DHARAMSHALA, Jan 7: The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) has expressed deep sorrow over the 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the Tingri (Chinese: Dingri) region in Tibet this morning.

DHARAMSALA, 7 Jan: The Tibetan spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has expressed deep sadness at the extensive loss of life and many injuries caused by the devastating earthquake that struck Tingri County in Shigatse City in the traditional Tibetan province of U-Tsang earlier this morning.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 3 Dec: The Tibetan spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, with his entourage, has temporarily departed from his residence in Dharamsala for a month-long sojourn in the Tibetan refugee settlement of Bylakuppe in Karnataka around 9:30 am today.

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.

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.

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.