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By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA 29 April: The residents of Bhandara Tibetan settlement in Maharashtra’s collective effort to prevent their Settlement Officer(SO) from leaving the settlement after receiving his transfer order from the Central Tibetan Administration(CTA) fails despite their appeals to the administration to allow the SO to remain in his position until the Rent Tenancy Certificate(RTC) for the settlement is secured.

By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 25 April: As the exiled Tibetans commemorated the 36th birthday anniversary of the 11th Panchen Lama Gendun Choekyi Nyima in absentia, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), commonly known as the Tibetan government in exile, has asked China, “Where is Tibet’s Panchen Lama?” The Tibetan spiritual leader has been held incommunicado by Beijing for 30 years.

DHARAMSALA, 22 April: The Tibetan spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Central Tibetan Administration’s President Penpa Tsering, and the Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile, Khenpo Sonam Tenphel, have all expressed heartfelt condolences to the Roman Catholic Church and its followers upon the demise of His Holiness Pope Francis.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 21 April: A coalition of five Tibetan Political NGOs today condemned the Chinese government for the cremation of Tulku Hungkar Dorjee without his family’s consent and reiterated demands for an international investigation into the suspicious death of the Tulku while in Chinese custody in Vietnam.

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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.