Blacklisted CCP owned tech company given access to UK markets
By Tenzin Nyidon DHARAMSHALA, Feb. 15: UK Conservative MPs in the Public Bill Committee voted to allow HikVision, the Chinese state-owned company, blacklisted in the US for its involvement in detention camps in East Turkestan (Xinjiang), to continue selling their tech in the UK markets. Findings revealed that HikVision is privately lobbying MPs to ensure that […]
Opinion: Whence the Tsampa Eaters?
By Karma T. Ngodup The story of peopling on the roof of the world One Sunday morning, in the heat of summer, sitting around the long table by the Tibetan community center of Chicago is Mr. Tamdin Wangyal, born in Tibet in 1947, then exiled to India, and immigrated to the United States. Currently, he […]
Tibetan student detained and fined for displaying Buddhist flags
By Tenzin Nyidon DHARAMSHALA, Feb. 10: A Tibetan university student in the so called Ngaba prefecture, Sichuan Province has reportedly been detained and imposed a huge fine for displaying Buddhist flags on the stage during Losar (Tibetan New Year) celebration show, according to the information received by the Dharamshala-based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and […]
Dalai Lama donates to earthquake rescue and relief efforts in Turkey and Syria
By Tenzin Dharpo DHARMASHALA, Feb. 7: Exiled Tibetan leader His Holiness has donated an unspecified sum to rescue and relief efforts, while expressing his sadness for the loss of life and destruction of property due to the massive earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. On Tuesday, in a letter written to the Executive Director of the […]
UN Special Rapporteurs express alarm over China’s forced assimilation policy in residential schools
By Tenzin Nyidon DHARAMSHALA, Feb. 7: Three United Nations experts have expressed alarm at China’s residential school policies in occupied Tibet, which separated nearly one million Tibetan children from their families. In the latest joint statement sent to China, the experts have stated that they are ‘disturbed’ and ‘alarmed’ by the forced assimilation of Tibetan […]
India bans over 230 betting and loan lending apps linked to China
By Tenzin Nyidon DHARAMSHALA, Feb. 7: The Indian government on Sunday blocked a total of 232 apps; 138 betting apps and 94 loan lending apps operated by Chinese and other entities. The decision came about after having confirmed that the apps contained illegal betting, gambling and unauthorised loan service, an official familiar with the matter […]
Tibetan rights groups condemn DNA kit supplier Thermo Fisher Scientific
By Tenzin Nyidon DHARAMSHALA, Feb. 3: Tibetan rights groups Free Tibet Organisation, Students for Free Tibet (SFT) and International Tibet Network (ITN) launched a week of global action against Thermo Fisher Scientific, a Massachusetts-based company’s which supplies DNA kits to Chinese Communist Party, enabling forced collection of samples and biometric surveillance across Tibet. The rights […]
China should immediately release ‘White Paper’ protestors: HRW
By Tenzin Nyidon DHARAMSHALA, Feb. 2: International rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for the immediate release of many youths known popularly as the white paper protestors who are forcibly detained by the Chinese government. It is reported that only a “few” protestors were released on bail until now. In late November, thousands […]
Dalai Lama’s envoy to Russia branded “foreign agent” for condemning war in Ukraine
By Tenzin Dharpo DHARAMSHALA, January 31: The envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Russia, Telo Tulku Rinpoche has been included in Kremlin’s infamous list of “foreign agent” on January 27 for his condemnation of Russia’s war in Ukraine. The foremost Buddhist figure of Republic of Kalmykia or the ‘Shajin Lama’ said Monday that […]
Rights group reveal new findings of Drago County desecration
By Tenzin Nyidon DHARAMSHALA, Jan. 27: London-based NGO, Free Tibet with its research arm, Tibet Watch released a new report “Desecration in Drago County: Destruction of Tibetan Religious Heritage, Arbitrary Detentions, and Torture” that reveal new findings of violations in Drago County in Kardze, eastern Tibet. The extensive report detailed the ongoing assault on Tibetan […]