[PTI] DHARAMSALA, Feb 12: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said that as Chinese love their culture, the Tibetans too love their culture and seek to preserve it, while expressing hope of “returning to homeland”.
Read more[Reuters] BEIJING, Feb 11: China’s President Xi Jinping told U.S President Barack Obama during a telephone call on Wednesday he hopes the United States will pay attention to China’s concerns on Tibet and Taiwan and that the issues will not interfere with China-U.S. ties.
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DHARAMSALA, Feb 12: Russia, China and Turkey are the top violators of freedom of expression for musicians in the year 2014, according to Free Muse, a Denmark-based group that advocates and defends freedom of expression for musicians and composers worldwide.
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Perry Link, The New York Review of Books|February 9, 2015
In late January, Chinese authorities announced that they are considering formal charges against Pu Zhiqiang, one of China’s most prominent human rights lawyers, who has been in detention since last May.
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DHARAMSALA, Feb 10: A young Tibetan Buddhist monk was brutally beaten and detained for staging a peaceful protest against the Chinese government in eastern Tibet.
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Published on February 9th, 2015 by dalailama.com
Basel, Switzerland, 8 February 2015 – It was cold, dark and the streets were empty when His Holiness the Dalai Lama drove from his hotel to the teaching venue this morning.
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DHARAMSALA, Feb 9: The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), a Dharamsala-based rights group, in its annual report said human rights situation in Tibet continues to deteriorate despite promised reforms.
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ANDREW JACOBS, The New York Times | February 6, 2015
BEIJING — Prayer breakfast speeches in Washington are rarely, if ever, the source of bruised feelings overseas. Not so this year.
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[dalailama.com] Washington DC, USA, 5 February 2015 – His Holiness the Dalai Lama today participated as a special guest in the National Prayer Breakfast, an event that takes place annually on the first Thursday in February in Washington DC.
Read moreIsaac Stone Fish, Foreign Policy | February 4, 2015
All in a day’s work for Lobsang Sangay, the Harvard-educated prime minister of the quixotic Tibetan movement in exile.
DHARAMSALA, India — These days, the Dalai Lama seems to make news mostly when world leaders decide whether or not to meet with him.
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