Saibal Dasgupta, TNN|August 30, 2014
BEIJING: Chinese president Xi Jinping is expected to question the existence of the Tibetan government in exile in Dharamshala during his India visit in September, a Chinese expert told TOI.
Read more[Reuters] BEIJING, Aug 29: Three Tibetans in China have pleaded guilty to involvement in the death of a prominent religious leader and two other people, a lawyer representing the victims’ families said on Friday, in Tibet’s most closely watched murder case in decades.
Read moreDHARAMSALA, Aug 29: A senior Tibetan monk of Rabten monastery in Driru County in former Kham Province of Tibet has been sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment.
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DHARAMSALA, Aug 28: Chinese authorities have arrested a young Tibetan woman writer in eastern Tibet for publishing articles on various websites that are critical of the Chinese government.
Read moreDHARAMSHALA, Aug 28: The pregnant wife of a Tibetan teenager, who died from untreated gunshot wounds sustained at the hands of Chinese police, has killed herself.
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DHARAMSALA, AUG 26: The elected head of the Tibetan people, Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay is on a three-day visit to Germany, where among others, he will attend a Sino-Tibetan conference with Chinese intellectuals, activists, writers, Sinologists from Europe, US, Asia and Australia.
Read moreDHARAMSALA, Aug 25: A senior Chinese official in Tibet has claimed that the Tibetan spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama is in talks with Beijing, however, he stressed that the talks are only about the possibility of the Tibetan leaders return to Tibet.
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[dalailama.com] Hamburg, Germany, 24 August 2014 – Emerging from his hotel into the sunlight falling through the trees, His Holiness the Dalai Lama took time to greet Tibetans and other well-wishers who had gathered to express their respect and support.
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DHARAMSALA, Aug 22: The Tibetan spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s scheduled visit to Mongolia this month has been cancelled as Chinese president Xi Jinping visits the country from Aug 21-22, reported Kyodo News International citing multiple sources.
Read more[The New Indian Express] NEW DELHI, Aug 19: A nurse, 25, who hails from Tibet, was gangraped on Independence Day night, inside a top hotel here by two members of the hotel director’s personal staff, police said. The rape survivor was tending to the ailing wife of one of the directors of The Oberoi Hotel.
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