71 Tibetan families in Shimla to be rehabilitated
By Choekyi Lhamo DHARAMSHALA, Feb 28: 71 Tibetan families living in Sanjauli are to be shifted and rehabilitated at Maliana or Mehli area under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna, reports The Tribune. The families live in shacks behind the Tantia parking complex at Sanjauli, Shimla. The state Cabinet, which met on Wednesday under the chairmanship […]
TRUMP GOVERNMENT’S NEW INITIATIVES ON TIBET
MANY THINGS FOR INDIA TO LEARN By VIJAY KRANTI By passing resolution HR-4331 on Tibet the House of Representatives of the US Congress has marked a new watershed in the American approach on the issue of Tibet and a qualitative shift in its style of dealing with China. This resolution has many lessons for countries […]
British Museum to exhibit Tibetan objects made of human remains
By Choekyi Lhamo DHARAMSHALA, Feb 26: British Museum in London will hold an exhibition “Tantra: Enlightenment to Revolution” from Apr 23 to Jul 26 where Tibetan objects made of human remains will be on display, reports The Guardian. These objects which have been characterised with the idea of “witchcraft or necromancy” will be showcased with […]
Queens Library shuts down Tibet Propaganda Exhibit after protests
By Choekyi Lhamo DHARAMSHALA, FEB 22: Queens Public Library in Elmhurst, New York, will officially shut down the Tibet Propaganda exhibit on Saturday, Feb 22 (EST). The Queens library was under huge criticism from Tibetan activist groups for exhibiting skewed content about Tibetans in Tibet. After ten days of intensive campaigning and winning the support […]
Nepal’s media condemns China’s intervention in press freedom
By Choekyi Lhamo DHARAMSHALA, FEB 20: Nepal’s media has condemned a statement made by the Chinese embassy regarding an article published in The Kathmandu Post. The statement shared by the Chinese ambassador, Hou Yanqi, on Twitter, was circulated by various other media outlets. It objected to the article with the accompanying illustration of Mao Zedong, […]
Organizations call on Apple to stop enabling China’s censorship and surveillance
By Choekyi Lhamo DHARAMSHALA, FEB 19: A coalition of civil, political, human rights, freedom of expression, corporate accountability, privacy, and digital security organizations, asked Apple in a letter to stop enabling China’s censorship and surveillance. In the letter addressed to Philip Schiller, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing in the multi-million dollar company, it has […]
US designates five Chinese media outlets as “foreign missions”
By Tenzin Dharpo DHARAMSHALA, Feb. 19: The States Department of the US has designated five Chinese media outlets as foreign missions of the Chinese government under the Foreign Missions Act, thereby placing them under the same constraints that embassies and diplomatic outposts are subjected to. The media outlets are the U.S. entities of the official […]
Tibetan schools seek exemption from mandatory teaching of Kannada
By Choekyi Lhamo DHARAMSHALA, FEB 18: Tibetan schools situated in Karnataka seek exemption from teaching Kannada as the first or second language which is mandatory for all schools in the state, reports The Hindu. As per the Kannada Language learning Act, it is mandatory for all schools to teach Kannada since it came into effect from […]
Men-Tsee-Khang to stop selling pill that claims to prevent contagious diseases after District CMO’s intervention
By Tenzin Dharpo DHARAMSHALA, Feb. 18: The apex Tibetan traditional medical institution Men-Tsee-Khang, headquartered here will halt the sale of the Rimsung Rilbu, a pill that claims to have medicinal properties to prevent contagious diseases including the ongoing outbreak of CoronaVirus (COVID-19) after the Kangra District Chief Medical Officer’s intervention. The CMO visited Men-Tsee-Khang’s McLoed Ganj […]
Over 850 confirmed cases, 5 deaths due to COVID-19 in occupied Tibet
By Tenzin Dharpo DHARAMSHALA, Feb. 17: The COVID-19 has claimed the lives of five people and has infected over 850 people in various provinces in the region encompassing occupied Tibet till date, according to a website called Gangjong Nyeshon that keeps track of the virus’s toll. The site which updates its data every few hours […]