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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 22 Jan: Marco Rubio, the US Senator from Florida and a staunch critic of Beijing was unanimously confirmed by the US Senate as America’s new Secretary of State on Monday following Donald Trump’s return to power as the 47th US President.

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.