Exiled Tibetans vote to elect PM
March 20, 2016DHARAMSALA: Tibetan exiles across the world on Sunday voted to elect their nominees for the post of ‘Sikyong’ or prime minister and the members of the parliament-in-exile. Long queues of men and women flashing their green colour voter identity cards were witnessed in the morning at nine polling centres in read more →
The most unique election: Tibetans around the world vote for new Parliament
March 20, 2016Exile Tibetans pray as they mark the 57th anniversary of the 1959 uprising against Chinese rule in McLeod Ganj on 10 March 2016. Soumya Shankar, 19 March 2016 Catch News On 20 March, around 1.5 lakh Tibetan refugees scattered across 30 countries will cast their votes to elect the Sikyong read more →
Exiled Tibetans elect leader to sustain Dalai Lama legacy
March 18, 2016Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama (R) and Lobsang Sangay, Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile. (Reuters Photo) By Abhishek Madhukar and Rupam Jain, Reuters, 18 March 2016 (NDTV) DHARAMSALA/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of exiled Tibetans across India and overseas will vote on Sunday to elect read more →
Exactly 57 Years Ago, The Dalai Lama Escaped From China To Find Refuge in India
March 18, 2016By Kunal Anand, Indiatimes – 17 March 2016 It was just a flight for survival for the Dalai Lama, spiritual ruler of Tibet, world’s last surviving “Buddhocracy”. In 1959, Chairman Mao had decided that China must invade, and they did so ferociously. Today, Tibet is a democratic government in exile, read more →
The Indian Spy Who Fell for Tibet
March 17, 2016By SAMANTH SUBRAMANIAN – New York Times – 16 MARCH 2016 Sent by Britain to carry out a secret survey, Sarat Chandra Das became enchanted instead. If it hadn’t been for a bout of malaria, Sarat Chandra Das might never have become a spy. As a civil engineer, he might read more →
Chinese website publishes, then pulls, explosive letter calling for President Xi’s resignation
March 17, 2016The Washington Post By Emily Rauhala and Xu Yangjingjing March 16 at 3:25 AM Two weeks after China’s President toured state media offices and called for absolute loyalty from the press, a website with links to the government published an explosive letter asking him to resign “for the future of read more →
Dalai Lama Says Key To Happiness Is Letting Go
March 16, 2016Micheal Lazar, Huffington Post, 15 March 2016 We all want to find and sustain happiness. And for the Dalai Lama, this inner peace may be easily found by doing one thing: determining that whatever is bothering you no longer exist. Well, sort of. Of course, reaching this plain of enlightenment read more →
Rare act of dissent at China’s annual parliament
March 16, 2016Tribute songs to Xi Jinping (centre) have become something of a musical genre in their own right By John Sudworth, BBC, 16 March 2016 After 11 days of interminable speeches, followed by ritualistic voting to approve everything put before it, China’s annual parliamentary gathering will, once again, leave little worthy read more →
‘New railway line in Tibet will damage environment, has India worried’
March 16, 2016The Qinghai-Tibet Railway link – the first railway network that connects TAR to any other province. (www.chinatibettrain.com) Sutirtho Patranobis, Hindustan Times, Beijing – Published on 15 March 2016 The new railway line to connect Lhasa and Sichuan in southwest China will not only damage the fragile eco-system of the Tibet read more →
KFC opens outlet in Tibet
March 15, 2016Locals form long lines in the new KFC restaurant in Lhasa, Tibet autonomous region, on March 9, its second day of business. (Palden Nyima / China Daily) By Palden Nyima in Lhasa and Lin Shujuan in Beijing, China Daily, 10 March 2016 KFC has become the first Western fast food read more →