Tibetan mother of two sets self on fire in eastern Tibet
DHARAMSALA, May 28: Sangye Tso, a 36-yr-old Tibetan mother of two has lit herself on fire in eastern Tibet in protest against China’s repressive rule in Tibet.
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“Patriotic education” campaigns intensified at Tsendhen monastery in Sog county and around 40 lay Tibetans arrested
DHARAMSALA, May 27: Reports emerging out of Tibet say patriotic re-education campaigns, already in place at Tsendhen monastery in Sog county in traditional Kham province’s Nagchu prefecture (now incorporated into Tibet Autonomous Region) are being intensified and around 40 residents of the county have been reportedly arrested for travelling outside TAR.
Read moreEnemies of the State: Beijing Targets NGOs
Andrew Browne, The Wall Street Journal | May 26, 2015
Fear of foreign infiltration behind a draft law that turns civic groups into security risks
SHANGHAI—It takes a special kind of courage to run a foreign nonprofit in China these days.
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CTA launches 2015 TED Awards for Enterpreneurship
DHARAMSALA, May 25: Tibetan Entrepreneurship Development (TED), an initiative of the Department of Finance of Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), in partnership with the Dalai Lama Foundation in Canada today launched ‘Sikyong Entrepreneur of the Year Award’ and ‘Investment Award for Up and Coming Entrepreneurs’ at a press conference held here in Dharamsala to encourage and inspire Tibetan entrepreneurs to contribute to the overall socio-economic health of the Tibetan community.
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Candle light vigil held in Dharamsala to express solidarity with latest Tibetan self-immolator Tenzin Gyatso
DHARAMSALA, May 22: Tibetans and their supporters in Dharamsala carried out a candle light vigil on May 21 evening to
Read moreTibet out of purview of India’s new Consulate in China
[PTI] BEIJING, May 20: India will soon be opening a new Consulate in China’s Chengdu city, capital of Sichuan province but Tibet, which borders it will not come under its purview.
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Tibetan father of four sets self on fire in eastern Tibet
DHARAMSALA, May 21: A Tibetan father of four has set himself on fire in eastern Tibet on May 20 to protest against ‘excesses’ by Chinese security forces that have been deployed in unusually large numbers in his hometown.
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Popular Tibetan singer from Driru county sentenced to three and half years in prison
DHARAMSALA, May 20: A popular Tibetan singer from Driru county in traditional Kham province’s Nagchu prefecture (now incorporated into Tibet Autonomous Region) has been sentenced to three and half years jail term.
Read moreChina visit and after – Undoing Nehru’s folly
Claude Arpi, Niti Central | May 18, 2015
A few months ago, a European diplomat confidentially told me, ‘in fact, the job of Modi is just to undo the knots in which the UPA tied up India in the past’. He was probably thinking of the complex Defence Procurement Policy (DPP) put in place by A.K. Antony, the UPA’s Defence Minister, who made the DPP so complicated that it became impossible for India to arm itself or even ‘make arms in India.’
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Nyitso monastery monk arrested in Tawu County
DHARAMSALA, May 19: A Tibetan Buddhist monk of Nyitso monastery in Tawu County in eastern Tibet was arrested by Chinese police on May 18.
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