Sikyong Speaks to the “Future Leaders of Tibet”
By Sherwin Altarez Mapanoo / January 27, 2015
Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay, the democratically elected leader of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile (the CTA or Central Tibetan Administration), greeted 2015 on an optimistic note as he spoke and interacted with Tibetan and Indian students in leadership summits held in Dharamshala and Pune, Maharashtra on January 2 and 12, respectively. Sikyong read more →
The Pope is Praying for China
By Vanshika Tripathi / January 27, 2015
Pope Francis has told a group of journalists that a date has now been set for a meeting with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, quashing speculation that his former decision not to meet His Holiness was due to fear of upsetting China. The Pope did not meet the Dalai Lama read more →
China Report: Censorship and Suppression on the increase
By Ed Janich / January 20, 2015
Democratic freedoms have declined under China’s new president, Xi Jinping, according to a recent report by Freedom House, a United States-based human rights and democracy watchdog. Tibetans and other minorities have been some of the worst affected by the changes. “There is a clear change in how Xi Jinping is read more →
Protests Over Exam Results Corruption
By Sam McFarland / January 20, 2015
Tibetan students and their families have taken to the streets in protest over the supposed mishandling of Government employer exams back in October. These exams, which are used in assigning government jobs to students recently out of school, were apparently sold off by Chinese officials to families who wanted higher read more →
China Faces Looming Financial Crisis
By Ed Janich / January 15, 2015
China has made the headlines this month, as leading economists at the Bank of America reveal that a Chinese financial crisis is highly probable in the coming year. BBC Business reporter Lawrence Knight has speculated that the Chinese authorities may incite racial tensions to divert public attention from any such read more →
Monastery or Prison?
By Rohini Kejriwal / January 15, 2015
January has seen no let-up in the crackdown at Kirti Monastery in Ngaba county in the Sichuan Province of Tibet. Following the arrests of two monks in December, the Chinese authorities have considerably increased their security forces in and around the area. The first of the arrests was of 20-year-old read more →
Is Mark Zuckerberg Cosying up to China?
By Sarah Gittleman / January 12, 2015
The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) has launched a petition accusing Facebook of “censoring the truth about China’s oppression of Tibetans”. The accusation followed the deletion of two separate posts by well-known activists—prominent Tibetan writer, Tsering Woeser, and exiled Chinese writer and critic, Liao Yiwu. The ICT, which has previously read more →
Sikyong Speaks on “Enduring Peace”
By Vanshika Tripathi / January 2, 2015
Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay was invited to speak at the reputable “India Ideas Conclave – 2014”, which professes to be India’s most eclectic and thought-provoking platform for global thought leaders and renowned subject matter experts to discuss cutting edge ideas in various fields of human development. The Conclave aims to read more →
Police Killing of Tibetan Village Leader Shakes Driru
By Peter Newman / December 25, 2014
The violence which has characterised Chinese rule in Tibet since 2008 became apparent again last week as reports surfaced confirming the extrajudicial killing of a revered village leader in Driru County. Sources close to the Dharamsala-based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) revealed last week that Bachen Gyewa, read more →
All Party Indian Parliamentary Forum for Tibet is Revived
By Sarah Gittleman / December 20, 2014
A ten-member Tibetan Parliamentary delegation successfully lobbied for the revival of the All Party Indian Parliamentary Forum for Tibet (APIPFT) during a week-long Tibet advocacy campaign in Delhi. The campaign, which ran from December 7-15, called on more than 100 Indian lawmakers from 31 major political parties including a former read more →