By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 4 Feb: Tech Billionaire Elon Musk, the administrator of the newly created US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced on Monday that President Donald Trump had agreed on the need to shut down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) after thePresident’s executive order to ban all foreign aid globally led to nearly 400 USAID contract workers to be laid off.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 3 Feb: US President Donald Trump has triggered a trade war with America’s top three trading partners by imposing 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports and an additional 10% on Chinese goods on Saturday which is set to come into force on Tuesday.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 31 Jan: US President Donald Trump’s global freeze on all US foreign aid for 90 days, one of the executive orders he signed on his first day back in office, and his harsh immigrant policies have caused serious concerns in the Tibetan community in exile and its governing body, the Central Tibetan Administration(CTA), given their major reliance on USAID, despite it being a very small portion of the total US foreign assistance.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 30 Jan: Chinese artificial intelligence(AI) startup DeepSeek, which has triggered a storm in the US over its advanced AI capabilities, has proven to be a state-controlled AI model designed to align with and reinforce the Chinese government’s official narratives, particularly on politically sensitive issues such as Tibet, Taiwan, Tiananmen square and its border dispute with India, among others.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 28 Jan: The National Seismological Centre(NSC) in New Delhi, India’s primary agency for monitoring and studying earthquakes has reverted to using “Tibet” instead of “Xizang” on their website after Voluntary Tibet Advocacy Groups (V-TAGs) members Tenzin Damdul and Tenzin Lhatso based in New Delhi met with the National Centre For Seismology(NCS) director Dr O.P Mishra last week to address the use of the Chinese colonial name “Xizang” in the recent reports on the devastating Tingri Earthquake in occupied Tibet.
By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 27 Jan: Penpa Tsering, the President of the Central Tibetan Administration(CTA), commonly known as the Tibetan Government in Exile, participated in a day-long seminar on “Environment and Security” on Friday last week to address China’s rampant damming along the India-Tibet border. The seminar was held at the state Legislative Assembly hall in Itanagar, the capital of Arunachal Pradesh(AP), in the Presence of the Chief Minister, Pema Khandu.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 24, Jan: Former Top Tibetan official of Tibet Autonomous (TAR), Mr Che Dalha (Qi Zhala), is being investigated by China’s top anti-corruption watchdogs over suspected violation of Party disciplines and National laws, reported China’s state-run media Xinhua News Agency on 23 January.
By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 22 Jan: Marco Rubio, the US Senator from Florida and a staunch critic of Beijing was unanimously confirmed by the US Senate as America’s new Secretary of State on Monday following Donald Trump’s return to power as the 47th US President.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 21, Jan: Activists from Tibet, Hong Kong and Uyghur have denounced the presence of Chinese Vice President Han Zheng at the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the US on Monday, “calling on the US to stand firm in its commitment to human rights and ensure that its policy reflects its democratic value.”
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 20 Jan: India’s primary agency responsible for monitoring and studying earthquakes, the National Centre for Seismology(NCS) under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India has also used China’s colonial term “Xizang” instead of “Tibet” in its reports and updates on the recent earthquake and the aftershocks in occupied Tibet amidst growing protest from Tibetan diaspora against the use of the Chinese colonial term in the international arena.
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