A 3 day Enforcement Workshop for the Protection of Tibetan antelope, jointly organized by the CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) Management Authority of China and the CITES Secretariat, successfully ended today in Lhasa, Tibet autonomous region of China.
While Beijing and New Delhi are hailing improved ties and success in dealing with border issues, Manik Mehta finds that in reality very little has changed on the ground. Take Tibet, for example.
The leader of Russia's Kalmykia region said Friday that local Buddhist believers had invited the Dalai Lama for a visit and said the trip depended on the Russian Foreign Ministry which has twice refused to grant a visa to the Tibetan Buddhist leader.
A team of Tibetan footballers are due to leave for Europe soon. The 22-strong squad, named the Tibetan National Football Association, is made up of exiles living in Nepal and India.
The Kalachakra Organizing Committee wishes to announce that persons planning on attending the teachings in Toronto in the spring of 2004 and who require visas for Canada must apply for them on their own.
A meeting of the Members of the India Tibet Friendship Society (ITFS), Mr. Tinley Gyatso and Mr Karma Damdul, Representatives of Luksum Samdupling and Dikyi Larso Tibetan settlement and Regional Tibetan women’s association was held at Bylakuppe, South India.
Reports from Tibet suggest that Evangelist missionaries have increased and diversified their long-term activities in Lhasa and other parts of Tibet because of the closer interaction between Tibetans and foreigners operating in Tibet.
Wild animals breeding unchecked in reserves in the Tibet Autonomous Region will be culled to reduce pressure on grasslands. Zhoima Yangzom, an official in charge of wild animal protection with the forestry bureau of the autonomous region in southwest China
According to reliable information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, Champa Chung, 56-year-old former assistant of Chadrel Rinpoche, is in custody even after expiry of his original four-year’s prison term in 1999.
