The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) on Tuesday launched a new report on the current climate crisis in Tibet, ‘Blue gold from the highest plateau: Tibet’s water and global climate change’, in Paris coinciding with
There are libraries of literature on the Cold War as seen from Western, Soviet, Third World or independent scholarly perspectives. But rarely has there been a book on how the Cold War as it was played out on the remote, sprawling pla
His Holiness the Dalai Lama yesterday (Dec. 7) in an interview to Trans Asia News Services said that the prevailing censorship in China over numerous mediums is tantamount to the Chinese government fooling its p
The Communist Party Chief of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), Chen Quanguo on Tuesday urged its chosen Panchen Lama, Gyaltsen Norbu, to reject the exiled Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the
His Holiness the Dalai Lama expressed his views on the much debated issue of ‘tolerance’ by saying it does not mean accepting and bearing wrongs committed by others but rather showing restraint to the peop
The Prime Minister of Tibetan government in exile (Sikyong) Dr. Lobsang Sangay on Monday expressed his concern over the rising number of Hepatitis patients in the Tibetan exile commu
The Indo Tibetan Friendship Association (ITFA) today announced its decision to host this year’s International Himalayan Festival coinciding with the conferment of Nobel Peace Prize upon His Holiness the Dalai Lam
In a new Chinese government project spanning over the next five years, traditional Tibetan houses in three Counties outside Lhasa city will be replaced by Chinese styled buildings. The project is expected to begin in 2016 in Lhasa city’s neigh
According to sources, he was subjected to immense torture while he was imprisoned in Baiyin City of Jingyuan County in Gansu Province to such an extent he had lost all his hair due to the harsh nature of the torture. The sam
