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PM Modi Inaugurates Kushinagar Airport in Boost for Buddhist Circuit, Hails ‘New Energy’ in Aviation Sector
News18 – 20 October 2021 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday inaugurated a new international airport at Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh and said his government has taken a number of steps to instil new energy in the aviation sector. Kushinagar is the final resting place of Gautam Buddha where he read more →
Shrinking Glaciers and Growing Lakes As Temperatures Rise on the Tibetan Plateau
SciTechDaily -By Adam Voiland NASA Earth Observatory As temperatures rise on the Tibetan Plateau, lakes are growing larger and deeper. Glaciologists often call the Tibetan Plateau and its many mountain ranges the “Third Pole” because the rugged, high-elevation landscapes contain the largest reserve of freshwater outside the polar regions. Much of that water is read more →
IPAC invites minister to Rome meeting
Taipei Times-Wed, Oct 20, 2021 COUNTER-MEETING: The conference is to focus on leaders targeted by Beijing, with Tibet, Hong Kong and Uighur activists also invited, the inter-parliamentary alliance said Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Wu (吳釗燮) has been invited by the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, an international cross-party group of legislators, read more →
China revokes grazing permits for Tibetan nomads in Qinghai province
Radio Free Asia-19 October 2021 (Reported by Sangyal Kunchok for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Eugene Whong.) Nomads have been living traditional lifestyles for centuries but must now sign over their land to the state. Chinese authorities are revoking permits for Tibetan nomads in read more →
Free Tibet Staffer Arrested Protesting Beijing Olympics
-Sourced by Free Tibet Jason Leith is one of a group of activists arrested today after bringing “No Beijing 2022” message to the torch-lighting ceremony Jason Leith, a London-based member of Free Tibet’s staff was arrested on the morning of Monday 18 October, along with other pro-Tibetan activists, while protesting read more →
China: CPC leader sanctioned for violations in Xinjiang takes charge of Tibet
-Sourced by Hindustan Times Wang Junzheng, 58, was the deputy secretary of the CPC committee of Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region and political commissar of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. He will now oversee the Tibet region A rising Chinese politician sanctioned by western countries for alleged human rights violations read more →
Dalai Lama donates ₹11 lakh to Kerala’s flood-relief bid
The Hindu – 18 October 2021 Click here The Dalai Lama has donated ₹11 lakh to Kerala’s flood-relief efforts. In a letter to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, the Lama has expressed his deep sadness at the loss of lives and property due to flooding and landslips. “I am writing to read more →
Olympic protesters held in Athens
-Sourced by Taipei Times Two women yesterday morning attempted to hang a banner from the Acropolis in Athens in protest at the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, but were detained by Greek police. The women, 18-year-old Tibetan student Tsela Zoksang and 22-year-old exiled Hong Konger Joey Siu (邵嵐), both US citizens, read more →
Tibetan scholar arrested for his writings was given four-year prison term following secret trial
Reported by Sangyal Kunchok for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. A Tibetan writer arrested two years ago on unspecified charges has been sentenced by a Chinese court to a four-year prison term, with no word given by authorities on when his sentence read more →
Game Theory Boards Canadian Tibetan-Language Drama ‘Tenzin’; Netflix & UNESCO Team On Sub-Saharan Africa Short Film Comp – Global Briefs
-Sourced by Deadline EXCLUSIVE: Game Theory Films has acquired Canadian rights to the Canadian Tibetan-language drama Tenzin. Co-directed by Michael LeBlanc and Joshua Reichmann, the film will have its world premiere at this year’s Tallinn Black Nights Festival next month. Featuring a cast of first time actors, the titular character is a young read more →
China’s Land Management Policies in Tibet ‘Unsustainable’: Report
-Radio Free Asia Tibetan. Reported by Lobe Socktsang for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Policies aimed at mitigating climate change are destroying Tibetan approaches to managing the land and forcing nomads from their grazing grounds. Chinese policies aimed at mitigating climate change read more →
Climate change in Tibetan Plateau impacts livelihoods: Report
National Herald In the run up to the Glasgow climate talks (COP26) and the ongoing UN biodiversity summit, a new report on Tuesday blamed China, the world’s biggest maker and user of coal, cement and steel, for climate change across the Tibetan Plateau, the world’s ‘third pole’. It says climate read more →
India must go beyond talkathon, start questioning Chinese claims on Tibet, Hong Kong and Xinjiang
Maj Gen SB Asthana for First Post The 13th round of Corps Commander level talks between India and China ending at an awkward note was not a surprise to anyone analysing Chinese activities prior to the talks. The talks happened in the backdrop of recent incidents of intrusions by Chinese troops read more →
Major Leadership Reshuffle in “TAR” in Run-up to the 20th Party Congress
By Tenzin Tseten, Tibet Policy Institute (TPI) – 8 October 2021 In the midst of leadership reshuffle ahead of the much-awaited once-in-a-decade leadership transition during the forthcoming 20th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong based English-language portal, reported on a transfer read more →
With all eyes on Taiwan, tensions are building on another Chinese frontier: India
By Brad Lendon, CNN – 13 October 2021 Hong Kong (CNN)China’s increased military activity in the Taiwan Strait may have grabbed all the headlines in recent weeks, but thousands of miles to the west, another simmering territorial dispute on the country’s borders looks more likely to boil over first. Just read more →