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A former Tibetan political prisoner and a human rights activist on Wednesday testified before the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human rights in Brussels.

Following what many in the social media and micro messaging sites claimed was an incident of battery by a supporter of one Sikyong candidate over the other, the Settlement officer of Orissa Tibetan settlement Chonor Samdup to

A letter written by a group of ‘loyal party members’ calling for Chinese President Xi Jinping’s resignation from all state and Party leadership positions was first posted on a website but removed la

According to freetibet.org, the family members of Kalsang Wangdu, 18 year old monk of Retsokha Aryaling Monastery, are being pressurized by the Chinese officials to say that ‘Kalsang Wangdu died in a house fire.’ Moreover

The Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) on Wednesday has denied any negligence on the part of the Doeguling Mundgod Local Election Commission in the suicide of a Tibetan camp leader Yeshi Jungney in Jan

The speaker of the Tibetan parliament and a prime ministerial candidate for the 2016 elections for the highest office of the Tibetan polity reiterated his stand on many issues; chief among them the row over the reason fo

A US based leading advocacy group for Tibetan issues warned of ‘even greater impact’ on the fragile environment of the Tibetan plateau from the planned second railway from Chengdu in Sichuan Province to Lhasa, th

One of the leading fast food conglomerate KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) last week opened its first ever outlet in Lhasa after a decade of speculation and reasons relating to ‘economic infeasibility’. Swarms of custome

Marking the end of the campaigning season of the 2016 Prime Ministerial (Sikyong) and Parliamentary (Chitue) elections, the Election Commission on Monday announced that all campaign related activities must end b

The activist group, Students for a Free Tibet, today observed the ‘International Day of Action for Rivers’ highlighting the plight of the many downstream countries of the trans-boundary river Brahmaputra (tib. Yarlung Tsangpo) that la