Tibet-Taiwan Collaboration
By Tenzin Samten / September 9, 2016
Members of the newly founded Human Rights Network for Tibet and Taiwan (HRNTT) visited the Tibetan Government-in-exile based in Dharamshala and have formally announced their collaboration. “The members of the Human Rights Network for Tibet and Taiwan are pleased to announce its collaboration with the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile through the institution read more →
Tibet’s New Chief
By Tsering Wangdue / August 31, 2016
The Communist Party of China (CPC) appointed Wu Yingjie as the new Chief of the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) on August 28 at the annual Beidaihe meeting or Chinese “summer summit”. Wu Yingjie, 59, is the longest serving Chinese officer in Tibet, having spent almost his entire career there spanning read more →
Suicides at Larung Gar – UPDATED
By Tenzin Samten and Mary Trewartha / August 30, 2016
Three Buddhist nuns living at the Larung Gar Academy in Sichuan have committed suicide and a fourth who attempted suicide was prevented by her friends at the last minute, all in protest against the Chinese authorities’ destruction of large parts of the Tibetan Buddhist academy. The first was Rinzin Dolma, read more →
UN envoy’s Chilly Reception in China
By Harriet Taylor-Potts / August 29, 2016
Mr Philip Alston, the United Nations(UN) Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, has visited China, the first UN representative to visit in over ten years. He condemned the way in which he was treated, saying he was impeded whilst attempting to exercise his role there. The UN’s growing read more →
Preparations Underway for the 34th Kalachakra
By Dorji Kyi / August 29, 2016
It has been confirmed that His Holiness the Dalai Lama will confer the 34th Kalachakra Initiation from January 3to 14 next year at Bodh Gaya in Bihar. This initiation has been organised by the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA). The Kalachakra Initiation or Wheels of Time Empowerment is considered the essence read more →
China’s Foreign Minister Visits India
By Harriet Taylor-Potts / August 28, 2016
Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi visited New Delhi to meet both Prime Minister Nerenda Modi and the Union Minister of External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj,on a three-day trip to discuss key bilateral issues. The meeting has evoked some concern within the Tibetan community with the Tibetan Express speculating that a deal read more →
China Protests its Innocence
By Rohini Kejriwal / August 27, 2016
China has responded to the accusations that the revered Tibetan monk Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, who died in prison last year, was poisoned while in detention. Rinpoche’s niece Nyima Lhamo, 26, made the accusations last month in Dharamshala where she was staying after escaping from Tibet where she visited Rinpoche in read more →
China’s Investment Bids Turned Down
By Maxwell Martyn / August 27, 2016
Tensions between Australia and China have been on the rise as Australia declines offers of Chinese investment. Half of the state owned electricity company, Ausgrid, was previously made eligible for sale by the New South Wales government on a 99 year lease. China State Grid, as well as Hong-Kong based read more →
More Restrictions for Kirti Monastery
By Dorji Kyi / August 25, 2016
The Chinese authorities in Ngaba county in Tibet issued a handbook for Tibetan monasteries dated July 28 which contains a set of decrees criminalising all forms of peaceful protest, silent marches, self-immolation and the use of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s portrait during protests, calling these acts of “disrupting social read more →
Tibetan Contestant in the Running for Miss Asia 2016
By Tenzin Samten / August 24, 2016
Lobsang Kyizom, 22, a Tibetan woman living in Nepal, represented Tibet in the Manappuram Miss Asia 2016 pageant held at Kochi, Kerala from August 12 -18. “I gained so much experience by taking part in this pageant. Representing Tibet was my main priority. Participating in this competition as [the] representative read more →