President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves met the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama earlier today in the capital city of Tallinn and emphasised the importance of protecting Tibetan culture.
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China has said that it will intensify its mining efforts on the Tibetan plateau in the coming years. Zhang Qingli, secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Regional (TAR) Committee of the Communist Party (CCP) of China said Saturday that the Chinese government will explore Tibet's minerals
Security has been beefed up around Tibetan settlement areas across the Nepali capital following the visit of a high-level Chinese delegation led by Zhou Yongkang. Yongkang, a Standing Committee member of Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Secretary of Political and Legislative Affairs
His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia August 16 at the invitation of the Estonian Institute of Buddhism and the Riigikogu Tibet Support Group (Estonian Parliamentary group for Tibet).
The issue of next Dalai Lama will be discussed during a planned meeting of Tibetan religious heads in September, said the Dalai Lama at a press conference in Toulouse, France, last Saturday. "About my reincarnation, only the Dalai Lama has the authority to decide and no one else
The Central Tibetan Administration is deeply saddened by the death of Tsewang Norbu who died because he had set himself on fire to draw the international community's attention to the worsening
crisis in Tibet.
Tsewang Norbu, a 29-year old Tibetan monk from Nyitso monastery in Kham Kardze, eastern Tibet died today after setting himself on fire to protest Chinese rule in Tibet. At around 12.30 Tibetan local time, Tsewang Norbu started raising slogans at the Chume Bridge in the centre of Tawu, Kardze
Tibetans along with local Indians and foreigners celebrated India's 65th Independence Day in Dharamshala earlier today. The chief guest, Ajay Singh Mankotia, president of the Dharamshala based Indo-Tibetan Friendship Society and Tenzin Tsundue,
His Holiness the Dalai Lama said he has been impressed with Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay's views on education, praising his policy to generate 10,000 professionally trained Tibetans within the next decade.
