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Diplomatic Victory: India’s NSC Ditches “Xizang” from its Tibet Quake Report

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.

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Amid pleas by Tibetans not to refer to Tibet as “Xizang,” India’s NCS calls Tibet “Xizang” over 50 times since Tibet quake

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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Tibetans, Tibet groups in UK Urges UK Chancellor to Talk Human Rights Over Trade with China 

By Tenzin Chokyi 

DHARAMSALA, 10 Jan: UK based Tibetans and Tibetan groups have urged Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the UK, to ensure trade and access to Chinese markets do not take precedence over the rights of the Tibetan people in an open letter before she heads to China to seek economic ties as part of UK’s quest for growth amidst major setbacks at home.

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CTA President, Tibetan NGO’s Callout Media Outlets for Misleading Headlines, calling Tibet “Xizang”

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 9 Jan: Penpa Tsering, the Sikyong (President) of the Central Tibetan Administration(CTA), urged the international media outlets to use the term “Tibet” instead of “Xizang” while reporting on the earthquake in Tibet, in his statement after a public prayer service at the Dalai Lama temple to mourn the earthquake’s victim, yesterday.

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ITCM Delegation Urges PM Modi to Address China’s Yarlung Tsangpo Dam Project

By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA , Dec 31: A delegation of the India-Tibet Cooperation Movement (ITCM), Vidarbha unit, submitted a memorandum to Nagpur District Collector Vipin Itankar today, urging India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take urgent steps against China’s recent approval of the construction of a massive hydropower project on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, reported The Times of India

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