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Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been named by the prestigious Foreign Policy magazine in its list of the 500 most powerful people on the planet. The Dalai Lama’s name features alongside some of the most powerful and richest people

Speaker of the Taiwanese parliament, the Legislative Yuan, has said he will welcome the Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Taiwan for the spiritual benefit of the Taiwanese people. Speaker Wang Jin-Pyng made the remarks while receiving Speaker Penpa Tsering

Over 500 cattle heads have been culled in the latest outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the Tibetan capital region of Lhasa in central Tibet. China’s state news agency Xinhua in a report today said the National Foot-and-mouth Disease Reference Laboratory confirmed

A new report has placed China among the “most egregious violators” of religious freedom in the world and has found that religious freedom conditions in Tibet are “worse now than at any time over the past decade.” The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom

Lobsang Tenzin, one of Tibet’s longest serving political prisoners has reportedly been released on medical parole and is currently undergoing treatment at home for severe injuries sustained during his quarter of a century prison term.

The exile Tibetan administration has called for May 17 to be observed as ‘Tibet Solidarity Day’ and appealed for “expressions of solidarity involving people’s elected representatives, local government or holding an activity as deemed appropriate.”

Indian and Tibetan students carried out a street protest against China’s incursion in Indian territory today at the McLeod Ganj Square in Dharamshala. The protest action also called for Tibet’s independence to ensure India’s security.

The Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile yesterday wrote to French President Francois Hollande, thanking him for raising the issue of Tibet and human rights during his recent meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping. In the letter, Deputy Speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel expressed “deep appreciation”

French President Francois Hollande, who on Thursday became the first western leader to meet China’s new President Xi Jinping in Beijing, said his talks touched upon the issue of Tibet where as many as 117 known cases of self-immolations have occurred.

The Human Rights Committee of the German parliament, the Bundestag, passed a joint declaration expressing deep alarm over the continuing wave of self-immolations in Tibet and urging the German government to work for the improvement of the situation in the region.