200 Members of Parliament want Bharat Ratna for Dalai Lama
April 16, 2019Tribune News Service, For original news click here. The Parliamentary Forum for Tibet has demanded that the Centre confer Bharat Ratna on the Dalai Lama. A member of the forum and former Chief Minister Shanta Kumar, in a press release … Continued
After India, Bhutan too likely to skip BRI Forum
April 15, 2019Filed by Sachin Parashar, The Times Of India. Read the original article here. While India has rejected China’s invite for Belt and Road Forum meet, most of its neighbours including the Maldives, SriLanka, Nepal and Bangladesh have confirmed participation in … Continued
Nitish Kumar Joins Bharat Ratna for Dalai Lama Chorus
April 15, 2019By Madan Kumar, For original news click here. PATNA: Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday endorsed former West Bengal governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi’s call to confer Bharat Ratna, the country’s highest civilian honour, on Nobel Laureate and Tibetan spiritual leader the … Continued
In Tibet, An Atheist Regime Talks of Reincarnation
April 15, 2019By Claude Arpi, Read the original article here. China is the land of dichotomies, not to say contradictions. On March 31, 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet crossed the Indo-Tibet border in the Kameng Frontier Division, north of Tawang; he … Continued
Dalai Lama Says He Feels ‘Almost Normal’ After Being Discharged From the Hospital
April 12, 2019By Rishi Lekhi, For original news, Click here. (NEW DELHI) — The Dalai Lama said he felt “normal, almost normal” as he left the New Delhi hospital where he had been treated for a chest infection. The 83-year-old Tibetan spiritual … Continued
Maze of half-truths
April 11, 2019Filed by Claude Arpi, The Pioneer. Read the original article here Despite the propaganda that the Tibetans took ‘their destiny in their own hands’ in 1959, Beijing still does not trust local cadres in governance. For the past several weeks, … Continued
‘Cured’ Dalai Lama set to be discharged from hospital on Friday
April 11, 2019AFP | April 11 2019 Read original article here NEW DELHI: The Dalai Lama is “doing very well” and will likely be discharged from hospital in New Delhi on Friday as he recovers from a chest infection, his spokesman told AFP on Thursday. The … Continued
EU Calls Out Beijing on Human Rights but Activists Want Harder Line Against China’s Xinjiang and Tibet policy
April 10, 2019By Keegan Elmer. Read original article here. Campaigners demand that China ‘close the camps’ holding Uygurs Human rights groups want EU to put direct questions to Chinese Premier Li Keqiang The European Union called out China on human rights abuses at … Continued
China’s extreme repression breeds self-immolations of Tibetans: ICT President
April 10, 2019Filed by Jayashree Naraayan, Delhi Post. Read the original article here. When Thubten Ngodrup set himself on fire in Delhi on April 27, 199,8 and later succumbed to it calling for freedom of Tibet, it was registered as the first … Continued
Will the U.S. continue to put national interest over China’s human rights violations?
April 10, 2019–Filed by Charles Kraus, The Washington Post The human rights crisis in Xinjiang, a region in northwestern China home to several Muslim minority groups, is being compared to Soviet atrocities in Ukraine and the horrors perpetrated by Nazi Germany. Upward … Continued