Big audience for panel with Dalai Lama despite Beijing protest
Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters | 11 March 2016
GENEVA-The Dalai Lama took part in a panel of Nobel Peace Prize laureates in Geneva on Friday,
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Statement of Sikyong on the 57th Anniversary of Tibetan National Uprising Day
March 10, 2016
Today marks the fifty-seventh anniversary of the Tibetan people’s peaceful uprising of 1959 against People’s Republic of China’s invasion and occupation of Tibet.
Read moreStatement of the Tibetan Parliament Exile on the occasion of the 57th Anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day
March 10, 2016
Today is the 57th anniversary of the great uprising in Tibet’s capital Lhasa in 1959 carried out by people from all The Three Provinces of Tibet in protest against the evil deeds and designs of the communist Chinese.
Read moreExclusive – China urges diplomats and U.N. to boycott Dalai Lama in Geneva
Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters | March 10, 2016
GENEVA-China has written to diplomats and U.N. officials urging them not to attend a Geneva event on Friday where the Dalai Lama will speak, reasserting that it opposes his appearance at all venues due to his “separatist activities”.
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Thousand attend self-immolator Dorjee Tsering’s cremation
DHARAMSALA, Mar 7: Thousands of Tibetans and supporters in Dharamsala on Mar 6 attended the funeral procession of Dorjee Tsering, the 16-yr-old Tibetan school by who set himself afire to protest against Chinese rule in Tibet and bring global attention to the Tibetan cause.
Read moreWon’t budge on South China Sea sovereignty: China
AP | Mar 8, 2016
BEIJING: China’s foreign minister took a hard line on Tuesday on the country’s claims to virtually all the South China Sea, saying Beijing won’t permit other nations to infringe on what it considers its sovereign rights in the strategically vital area.
Read more‘Tsering’s sacrifice will not go waste’
DEHRADUN, Mar 6: Tibetan youngsters here who attended a prayer function held in memory of Dorjee Tsering, a 16-year-old Mussoorie student who breathed his last on March 3 in a Delhi hospital after setting himself ablaze last week, said Tsering’s sacrifice for ‘Free Tibet’ will not go waste.
Read moreChina to build second rail line into restive Tibet
[Reuters] BEIJING, Mar 4: China will build a second railway line connecting restive and remote Tibet with others parts of China that will link Tibetan capital Lhasa with the southwestern city of Chengdu, the government said on Saturday.
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Dorjee Tsering succumbs to burn injuries
DHARAMSALA, Mar 4: Dorjee Tsering, the 16-yr-old Tibetan boy who self-immolated in Dehradun on Mar 29 to bring global attention to the Tibetan struggle for freedom has succumbed to burn injuries.
Read moreFirst Self-Immolation of Year Reported in Tibetan Region
[AP] BEIJING, Mar 2: A Tibetan Buddhist monk set himself on fire and died in a protest against Chinese rule, in the first such action of its kind this year, a U.S. government-funded radio station said Wednesday.
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