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The US Senate confirmed former Commerce Secretary Gary Locke as Ambassador to China on 27 July 2011. Excerpts from response given by the Ambassador to questions posed to him by Senators in connection with the confirmation

Over 5000 Tibetans from all over Tibet took part in the annual religious congregation 'Jang Gunchoe Chenmo' and enthroned a portrait of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Defying Chinese government orders, monks and nuns representing all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism and Yungdrung Bon took part in the 10-day Gunchoe Chenmo held at Kham Lithang Gonchen in July 2011.

A religious gathering of over 5000 people in eastern Tibet violated Chinese government orders and publicly enthroned a portrait of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama with full religious ceremonial gaiety.

Chinese owned Tibet Airlines Co Ltd (TAC) operated its maiden flight from Lhasa Gonggar Airport to Ngari Ali Khunsa Airport yesterday. Earlier reports had suggested that TAC, the only carrier based in Lhasa

Days after Xi Jinping exhorted monks in Tibet to “fight against separatist activities”, latest information coming out of Kirti Monastery in Ngaba, eastern Tibet, confirm that monks at the monastery are being forced to denunciate the Dalai Lama

In an ultimatum of sorts, the US House Foreign Affairs Committee in an Act July 20 has directed the Secretary of State to forbid additional Chinese consulates in the United States until China allows a US consulate in Lhasa, Tibet

A strategic meeting to reassert the “essential aims and goals of restoring independence of Tibet” concluded in Zurich July 24. The two-day meeting organised by the Tibetan Youth Congress

In a letter sent to the Prime Minister of Norway, H.E. Jens Stoltenberg on 23 July 2011, His Holiness the Dalai Lama expressed his sadness and shock on learning of the tragedy that has befallen Norway with a bomb blast in the centre of Oslo as well as the shooting incident at the youth camp

In a move that is set to strain diplomatic ties between the two Asian giants, China has once again issued stapled visas to a group of Indian sportspersons. Three karatekas and an official from India’s north eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh were issued stapled visas

A travelling exhibition on the life and times of the Xth Panchen Lama made its first appearance in the United States of America during the recently concluded Kalachakra initiations in Washington, D.C.