By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 22 April: In a first, the government of India has organised a two-day international Buddhist conclave in Arunachal Pradesh(AP), its bordering state with China-occupied Tibet, to highlight the spread and impact of Buddhism in India’s northeastern region(NE) and to promote cultural exchange and dialogue.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 10 April: A coalition of global Cybersecurity agencies has issued a joint advisory warning against Two Chinese spyware variants aimed at monitoring and intimidating individuals connected to topics including occupied Tibet, East Turkestan, Taiwan, democracy movement and Falun Gong communities.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 28 March: After a series of protests against the Guimet Museum for erasing the name “Tibet” in favour of colonial denominations such as the “Himalayan World” failed to elicit any meaningful response from the museum, Students for a Free Tibet-France(SFT) has served a legal notice to the Museum and the French Minister of Culture, demanding the museum reinstate Tibet in its rightful place in their collections of Tibetan art.
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by Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 13, March: China has reacted furiously by declaring the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, who is in “political exile’, a “separatist” with “no right to represent the Tibetan people” following the release of the Dalai Lama’s new book, ‘Voice for the Voiceless’ on Tuesday,, which clearly indicated the next Dalai Lama will be born outside of China.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 4 March: Penpa Tsering, the Sikyong (President) of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), has confirmed on Monday that US foreign aid under the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) to the Tibetan exile community will continue, despite his earlier announcement about a complete halt to US foreign aid to Tibetans, including USAID and PRM, on the second day of the Tibetan new year (Losar) on 1 March.
By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 26 Feb: China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi condemned human rights as a pretext for interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, an excuse often used by Beijing to hide from its gross violation of human rights in occupied Tibet and other occupied areas. Wang Yi made the remarks during the first day of the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council on Monday, which is scheduled to continue till 4 April.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSHALA 24 Feb: President Donald Trump’s administration on Sunday fired 1,600 staff in the US at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and placed all USAID direct hire personnel on administrative leave globally.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 19, Feb: After being released from a Chinese prison, an exiled Tibetan activist and former political prisoner, Namkyi, faced an impossible choice: either continue staying in occupied Tibet under perpetual repression and round-the-clock Chinese surveillance or flee her homeland to expose the plight of other Tibetan political prisoners in occupied Tibet under Chinese rule.
By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 4 Feb: Tech Billionaire Elon Musk, the administrator of the newly created US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced on Monday that President Donald Trump had agreed on the need to shut down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) after thePresident’s executive order to ban all foreign aid globally led to nearly 400 USAID contract workers to be laid off.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 3 Feb: US President Donald Trump has triggered a trade war with America’s top three trading partners by imposing 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports and an additional 10% on Chinese goods on Saturday which is set to come into force on Tuesday.
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