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‘Running out of time’: Tibetan president-elect warns of cultural genocide
Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific May 24, 2021 9:04 AM IST The top political leader of Tibet’s government in exile said on Friday that there is an urgent threat of “cultural genocide” in Tibet, and the international community must stand up to China ahead of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Penpa Tsering, who read more →
Will Start ‘Tibet Advocacy Group’ with Tibetans Living Across Globe to Feed our Cause: New Prez of CTA
CNN-News 18, 20 May 2021 The former Speaker of TPiE, Penpa Tsering is all set to become the next Sikyong (President) of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) after the official results of the Presidential and Parliamentary (Chithue) elections were declared by the Election Commission (EC). Here’s a brief conversation with read more →
India-China ties at crossroads, depend on neighbour following rules: Jaishankar
PTI 21 May 2021 The relationship between India and China is at a crossroads and its direction depends on whether the neighbouring country adheres to various agreements on maintaining peace and tranquillity along the border, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday, referring to the eastern Ladakh standoff. Jaishankar read more →
Tibet’s government-in-exile has a new political leader. Here’s what to expect
By Kunal Purohit SCMP 20 May 2021 After a four-month voting process that saw 83,000 Tibetan refugees around the world cast their ballots, 54-year-old Penpa Tsering, a former speaker of the Tibetan parliament-in-exile, was declared the community’s new political leader. Tsering’s election as the new head of the Central Tibetan read more →
Budapest rejects Chinese university building site plans
By Vlagyiszlav Makszimov Euroactiv 18 May 2021 Budapest’s green mayor Gergely Karácsony, who recently announced his run for the prime ministerial post in the opposition primaries, has rejected the construction of the Fudan university on its planned site after talks with Innovation and Technology Minister László Palkovics on Monday. “We particularly read more →
China Cuts Hours for Tibetan Buddhists at Lhasa’s Jokhang Temple to Half That of Tourists
Radio Free Asia 18 May 2021 Chinese authorities in Tibet’s regional capital Lhasa have sharply cut visiting hours to just three and a half hours for Buddhist devotees at the city’s Jokhang temple, while leaving the temple complex and major pilgrimage site open twice as long for tourists, according to read more →
Groups urge Beijing to offer details on Panchen Lama
By Chen Yu-fu and William Hetherington Taipei Times 19 May 2021 The Human Rights Network for Tibet and Taiwan on Monday called on Beijing to provide details on the 11th Panchen Lama, who was kidnapped by the Chinese government 26 years ago. The 11th Panchen Lama, born Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, read more →
Human rights activists urge athletes to boycott Beijing Games
Reuters 19 May 2021 Human rights activists on Tuesday called for athletes to boycott next year’s Winter Olympics in China and put pressure on the International Olympic Committee over the staging of the Games. Beijing is set to host the Olympics in February 2022, but the IOC has faced criticism read more →
Starting as a child, this Tibetan woman was forced to face 22 years of Chinese oppression
Thérèse Obrecht Hodler Scroll.in 18 May 2021 One day the Chinese occupying forces announced: “Children are allowed to work!” It was no longer a matter of collecting firewood or cow dung, but of proper work organised by the Chinese authorities. Tendöl was assigned to the Jokhang, the most sacred temple read more →
Censorship, Surveillance and Profits: A Hard Bargain for Apple in China
By Jack Nicas, Raymond Zhong and Daisuke Wakabayashi NY Times 17 May 2021 GUIYANG, China — On the outskirts of this city in a poor, mountainous province in southwestern China, men in hard hats recently put the finishing touches on a white building a quarter-mile long with few windows and a tall surrounding wall. read more →
Only an international effort can put an end to China’s crimes in Xinjiang
Jewher Ilham and Sophie Richardson for The Guardian China’s president, Xi Jinping, declared back in 2014 in a series of speeches delivered in private to officials that he intended to crack down harshly in Xinjiang, the north-western region of China where about 13 million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims make up read more →
Why China’s Communist Party is inseparable from the state
Josephine Ma South China Mornin Post 17 May 2021 “Government, the military, society and schools, north, south, east and west – the party leads them all.” This was a line written into the Communist Party of China’s charter in 2017, reflecting President Xi Jinping’s philosophy that the party should lead read more →
Penpa Tsering to be next President of Tibetan government in exile; asks China to learn Buddhism
Sidhant Sibal WION 14 May 2021 Penpa Tsering will be the next President of the Tibetan govt in Exile (or Sikyong of Central Tibetan Administration) based out of Dharamshala. In his first comments after election victory to any media outlet, Penpa, speaking to WION diplomatic correspondent Sidhant Sibal said he read more →
INTERVIEW | Tibet Seeks Japan, U.S. Help as China Continues Persecution
By Takao Harakawa, Sankei Shimbun Japan Forward 13 May 2021 A senior official at a Japan-based organization that represents Tibet’s government-in-exile has told the Sankei Shimbun about the harsh reality of China’s crackdown in Tibet. Arya Tsewang Gyalpo of the Liaison Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama for Japan & read more →
PRESS CONFERENCE: What Next for Tibet? by Arya Tsewang Gyalpo, Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama for Japan
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan May 17th marks 26 years since Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama and second most important figure in Tibetan Buddhism, was abducted by the Chinese government. Aged just six, the Panchen Lama was taken along with his family after the 14th Dalai Lama read more →