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‘Tibet Under China Risks Losing Culture, Religion & Way Of Life’: Dy Speaker Dolma Tsering
By Republic World: 12th November, 2021 Dy Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, Dolma Tsering, said that Tibet’s culture, religion, and way of life, is at risk under the Chinese administration. Deputy Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, Dolma Tsering, stated that Tibet’s culture, religion and way of life, which is founded on Buddhism, is at risk under the read more →
COP26: Why Is the World Silent on China’s Monopoly on Tibet’s Rivers?
-The Quint (by Yeshi Dawa) As COP26 wraps up, the world is again ignorant about the importance of Tibet’s role in combating the global climate crisis. Despite all the hue and cry, the stakeholders failed to recognise the urgency and weightage of “The Third Pole” in this collective mission – not just “The read more →
Notable Tibetan Writer Imprisoned for Four Years after a Secret Trial
-By Free Tibet Tibetan writer, Lobsang Lhundup, known by his pen name Dhi Lhaden, has been sentenced to four years in prison on the charge of “disrupting social order”. Such charges are commonly employed by the Chinese Communist Party to silence dissent, instil fear, and preserve a culture of censorship read more →
Dalai Lama: China’s leaders ‘don’t understand variety of cultures’
TOKYO, Nov 10 (Reuters) – Tibet’s spiritual leader the Dalai Lama criticised the leaders of China on Wednesday saying they “don’t understand the variety of different cultures” there and there is too much control by the main Han ethnic group. But he also said he had nothing against “Chinese brothers read more →
2 Recent CCP Appointments Trigger Concerns Over Rights Abuses in China
By The Epoch Times-November 9, 2021 Amid the Chinese regime’s ramping up of its largest leadership reshuffle before the 20th National Congress, the recent appointments of two Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) cadres aroused great concern in the international community over China’s worsening human rights situation. The National Congress is theoretically the highest body read more →
80 Tibetan monks forcibly expelled from their monasteries
Sourced by Free Tibet-9th November 2021 On 21/22 October 2021, 30 teenage monks from Jakyung Monastery, and a further 50 from Deetsa Monastery, in Bayan County (Cn: Hualong), Qinghai Province were expelled by state officials. Security officers entered the monasteries and forcibly removed the students, before returning them to their read more →
COP26 Is Silent on Human Rights in China
Nithin Coca for Foreign Policy To many Uyghurs and Tibetans in exile, a July letter sent by several climate, environmental, and anti-war organizations to the Biden administration confirmed their worst suspicions—that the climate and environmental movement did not care about them or their causes. “That made us upset,” said Omer read more →
Tibetan refugees back in town after a year; bring lesser products due to the pandemic
The Telegraph Online-08.11.21 They have been visiting Dhanbad for the last three decades. Around 20 Tibetan refugees from Mysore are back in the coal town after two years with their wide range of winter wear products including jackets, sweaters, shawls, mufflers, rugs, stockings, gloves, monkey caps and others. Their return read more →
Beijing Olympics get ‘gold for repression’ in labor report
By Stephen Wade | AP – 9 November 2021 A global trade union body has joined a long list of human-rights advocates in challenging the propriety of China holding the 2022 Winter Olympics, and has singled out the International Olympic Committee for acquiescing in the face of alleged genocide and crimes against read more →
China’s self-isolation is a global concern
By Gideon Rachman, Financial Times – 8 November 2021 The most important invited guest at COP26 did not show up. As president of China, Xi Jinping leads a country that emits more carbon dioxide than the US and the EU combined. But, unlike other world leaders, Xi did not give read more →
Xi Jinping is rewriting history. But it’s the future he wants to leave his mark on
Analysis by Nectar Gan and Steve George, CNN- 8 November 2021 Hong Kong (CNN)As Chinese leader Xi Jinping looks set to seek a third term in power, he is seemingly preoccupied with the past, not the future. When more than 300 members of China’s political elite gather in Beijing this week their main read more →
We have a border with Tibet, not with China: Major General GD Bakshi
ANI Dharamshala: “India has a border with Tibet and not with China, said Major General (retd) GD Bakshi on Monday. Bakshi held a press conference in Dharamshala today where he extended his support for the Tibetan people. Briefing media persons here, Major General Bakshi said, “India does not have a read more →
The Phantoms of Chittagong: The unsung Tibetan heroes of the 1971 Bangladesh liberation war
Firstpost (By Claude Arpi-November 08, 2021) On 50th anniversary of the liberation of Bangladesh, we need to recall one of the best-kept secrets of the war: The role played by the Special Frontier Force, a highly trained Tibetan regiment based in today’s Uttarakhand, in the Chittagong Hills. We are soon read more →
Xi Jinping to lay out vision for China’s future – and past – at key meeting
Vicent Ni, Helen Davidson – The Guardian – 8 November 2021 A meeting of hundreds of members of China’s political elite, which is expected to further consolidate the power of president Xi Jinping, has opened in Beijing. The closed-door, four-day meeting of the ruling Chinese Communist party’s central committee, known read more →
China forces young Tibetans out of monasteries in Qinghai
Radio Free Asia: 2021.11.04 (By Sangyal Kunchok) read more →