Australia joins diplomatic boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics
December 9, 2021-ABC News Australian officials will not attend the Beijing Winter Olympics, in a formal boycott of the Games over China’s human rights abuses against Uyghur minorities in the country. The US this week confirmed it would not send any diplomats or officials to the Games, while still allowing its athletes to read more →
Denisovans or Homo sapiens: Who were the first to settle (permanently) on the Tibetan Plateau?
December 9, 2021Science Daily-University of California (Davis) Extinct Denisovans passed on genes that help Tibetans survive high altitudes. The Tibetan Plateau has long been considered one of the last places to be populated by people in their migration around the globe. A new paper by archaeologists at the University of California, Davis, read more →
A residential school system in China is stripping Tibetan children of their languages and culture, report claims
December 9, 2021-The Globe And Mail “When you are cut off from your language and culture and history, you lose a sense of who you are, and eventually it feels like you’re losing the very fabric of your humanity,” Almost 80 per cent of Tibetan children in China have been placed in read more →
Chinese President Xi Jinping calls for tightening controls over religious affairs to boost national security
December 8, 2021The Indian Express-December 6, 2021 Chinese President Xi Jinping has been calling for “sinicization” of religions, re-orienting them to function under the guidance of the CPC which ideologically remains atheist. Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for further measures to tighten the state’s control over religious affairs in the country, read more →
How a Hungarian scholar became the founder of modern Tibetology after reaching India
December 5, 2021-Sourced by Scroll.in Nearly two centuries after Alexander Csoma de Kőrös set off on his journey to Asia, his scholarly legacy is still alive and well. In 1816, a 32-year-old Hungarian scholar with a special gift for learning languages won a scholarship to study at the University of Göttingen, a read more →
Nepal preparing to issue identification cards to refugees living in the country
December 5, 2021The Kathmandu Post-December 4, 2021 Plan for now is to provide them to refugees from Bhutan, with no discussions yet on doing so for Tibetan refugees. The government is preparing to distribute identification cards to refugees living in Nepal. Officials confirmed the plan to distribute refugee identification cards but they read more →
Twitter and Facebook hit back at Chinese propaganda campaigns
December 4, 2021Paul Mozur for The New York Times Twitter and Facebook said they have removed thousands of accounts connected to Chinese information campaigns, in the latest sign of Beijing’s ambitions to shape the global narrative around the country. In a notice posted early Thursday, Twitter said that it took action against read more →
Chinese authorities restrict what Tibetan children read about Dalai Lama
December 4, 20213 December 2021 – Indiablooms.com Beijing: Chinese authorities in Qinghai province have started restricting Tibetan children about what they read about spiritual leader Dalai Lama. Authorities in northwestern China’s Qinghai province have ramped up efforts to vilify the Dalai Lama, now questioning Tibetan children to discover what their parents have read more →
Han Chinese now hold most government posts in Tibet as Beijing extends control
December 4, 2021Radio Free Asia-By Lobsang Gelek Han Chinese now outnumber Tibetans in top government posts in Tibet by more than 2-to-1, an indication, Tibetan sources say, of China’s push to dominate the region. Following Beijing’s installation of Wang Junzheng as Tibet’s party secretary on Oct. 19, only four out of fifteen read more →
New Tibetan bilingual website claims to ‘decode CCP, explain Chinese govt’s hidden agenda’
December 4, 2021Tenzin Zompa for The Print New Delhi: The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) launched a new bilingual (English and Tibetan) website — Decoding CCP — Thursday, which claims to explain and decipher the meaning and connotations of key official jargon and slogans used by the Chinese Communist Party in present-day read more →