Recent official surveys from the TAR and Qinghai - the latter province traditionally known to Tibetans as Amdo - reveal several startling results. Extreme poverty in the TAR, as measured by the official poverty line in China
Tenzin Tangchen Dera, 18, is graduating today from the New Mexico Academy for Sciences and Mathematics. She is one of five students in the school's first graduating class and will attend Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colo. - Kathy De La Torre | The New Mexican
Long ago, Tenzin Yangchen Dera figured she would wind up like most Tibetan girls in India. She would drop out of boarding school, weave carpets and marry by 25, living the rest of her life with her husband's family.
A two-day conference of the North India Tibet Supporting Group comes to an end here in Patiala. The conference was organized by the efforts of the Bharat Tibet Sahyog Manch at S.D. Senior Secondary School, Patiala.
According to confirmed information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), the 18 Tibetan detainees were deported from Nepal to Tibet under pressure from the Chinese Embassy in Nepal. At 6 a.m. this morning, police officers from Hanuman Dhoka District Police Station forcefully led the group into a police van. It is reported that the group resisted but were overpowered by police who lifted the detainees and pushed them into the van.
Tibetan Spiritual leader the Dalai Lama greets devotees upon his arrival to a gathering part of Germany's first Ecumenical Church Day in Berlin.(AFP-DDP/Michael Urban)
Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama spoke out in Berlin in support of the international peace movement while the Chinese embassy accused him of pursuing separatist activities under the cover of religion.
The Tibetans received a major setback today with the extradition of 18 Tibetan refugees to China by the Nepalese government. Condemning the act as shocking and 'not a good gesture', the Kalon Tripa of the Tibetan government based in Dharamsala
At 5:45 am on Saturday, May 31, Nepalese authorities loaded 18 Tibetan refugees from Hannaman Dhoka prison in Kathmandu onto a Chinese Embassy vehicle, according to eyewitnesses. The refugees were reportedly in distress while they
The long wait is finally over for the students of classes X and XII. The Central Board of Secondary Examinaiton (CBSE) results for the two classes were declared last week.
