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Responding to the critical situation inside Tibet, the exiled Tibetan administration took the lead in calling for immediate international intervention in the growing cases of self immolation

Hundreds of Tibetans gathered at the Tibetan Handicraft Centre in the Jawlakhel area of Kathmandu, Nepal Tuesday evening in a show of solidarity with the seven Tibetans who have self-immolated this year.

The Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (TIPA), cancelled its annual inter-house cultural competition Yarkyi owing to the deteriorating human rights condition in Tibet. The annual competition, which is considered the highlight of the institution’s excellence

Choephel, the 19-year old former monk of Kirti Monastery in Ngaba, eastern Tibet, succumbed to his injuries in a Chinese government hospital in Barkham area at around 2 pm local time yesterday.

The Gandhi Development Trust in Durban, South Africa, awarded His Holiness the Dalai Lama with the Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Reconciliation and Peace last Sunday.

Khaying, a Tibetan in his late teens, who set himself on fire protesting Chinese rule over Tibet last week, succumbed to his injuries on October 8 at around 1 pm local time.

Amidst reports of continued self immolations inside Tibet, Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay today convened a one-day meeting of the Task Force on Negotiations (TFN) at the Kashag Secretariat in the exile seat of Dharamshala.

The exile based Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) in a press release today called upon the People's Republic of China to “put an end to its repression in Tibet as demonstrated by the ongoing unrest in Ngaba and other Tibetan areas”.

A group of three Tibetans have initiated a voluntary movement aimed at raising educational funds from within the Tibetan diaspora while simultaneously trying to engage the younger generation in the Tibetan freedom struggle.

Sonthar Gyal, a Tibetan debutant director has won the prestigious18th annual Dragons & Tigers Award for Young Cinema at the ongoing Vancouver International Film Festival for his road film The Sun Beaten Path.