World

By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 28 May: Ironically, China, long known for its secrecy and tight control, has released its first-ever White Paper on National Security, acknowledging both “external” and “internal risks” at a critical stage in its modernisation. The document sets a defiant tone, suggesting there will be more restrictions and tensions in its occupied regions, like Tibet and East Turkistan.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 7 May:  India has successfully stopped Sotheby’s auction of sacred Buddha relics, with the global giant auction house postponing the sale of the relics scheduled to be auctioned on Wednesday in Hong Kong. This last-minute decision came after India accused Sotheby’s on Monday of perpetuating colonial exploitation and demanded the return of the relics to their rightful owner.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 1 May: A month-long campaign of advocacy, protest, and appeals by the exiled Tibetan community and rights groups has now prompted formal attention from the European Parliament. In a significant development, key EU officials have called on China and Vietnam to “ensure a transparent, independent and impartial investigation” into the suspicious death of Tulku Hungkar Dorjee.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.