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From Chinese Prison to Geneva, Namkyi Details Surveillance and Torture in Occupied Tibet

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.

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Trump Presses to Shut USAID, Bipartisan Tibet Aid Faces Serious Risk

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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Data Privacy Concern a Red Flag as DeepSeek AI Stores User Data in China

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA 30 Jan: Chinese artificial intelligence(AI) startup DeepSeek, which has triggered a storm in the US over its advanced AI capabilities, has proven to be a state-controlled AI model designed to align with and reinforce the Chinese government’s official narratives, particularly on politically sensitive issues such as Tibet, Taiwan, Tiananmen square and its border dispute with India, among others.

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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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