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Denisovans or Homo sapiens: Who were the first to settle (permanently) on the Tibetan Plateau?
Science 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
-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
The 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
-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
The 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
Paul 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
3 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
Radio 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’
Tenzin 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 →
Beijing continues campaign against Tibetan language
By Karma Tenzin, Tibet Policy Institute (TPI)-1 December 2021 The Chinese government is eradicating the sense of Tibetan identity among the younger generations. For the past few years, a series of notices and new laws have created an environment where Tibetan children are prevented from learning the Tibetan language. For instance, in read more →
Chinese officials restrict what Tibetan children are taught about the Dalai Lama
Radio Free Asia-by Sangyal Kunchok The campaign in Qinghai also targets photos, prayer flags and family shrines. 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 told them about the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, read more →
China says 85% of citizens will use Mandarin by 2025
By Associated Press, Published in The Washington Post – 1 December 2021 BEIJING — China is launching an aggressive campaign to promote Mandarin, saying 85% of its citizens will use the national language by 2025. The move appears to put threatened Chinese regional dialects such as Cantonese and Hokkien under read more →
China renews attacks on remaining Tibetan-language schools
By International Campaign for Tibet-November 30, 2021 In the eastern Tibetan areas of Amdo and Kham (incorporated into the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Qinghai and Gansu), where over half the Tibetan population live, numerous reports have emerged of attacks on Tibetan language and Buddhist study. Last month, Drago Monastery School read more →
India-China Border Row: Not Just Pentagon, Taiwan & Tibet Are Worried, Too
By Dr Tenzin Tsultrim – 1 December 2021 Published in The Quint For the past few years, the security environment in Asia has been covered by clouds of distrust and suspicion. From the Doklam stand-off to the Galwan Valley clash, China has frequently broken its promises and India’s trust. The read more →
New evidence of Chinese repression emerges from Tibet, Xinjiang
ANI for Lokmat Areas in Tibet and Uyghur Muslim belt in Xinjiang witnessed repression and there is a widespread disquiet amongst the people in these regions, according to new anonymously shot video evidence that has emerged from the are, says new reports. A 20-min video shot by a person who read more →