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Ama Jestun Pema honoured at GR8! Women Awards ceremony
[The Hindu] HYDERABAD: Women achievers, who had excelled in their respective fields despite odds, were befittingly honoured at the 13th GR8! Women Awards held in the city on Sunday. The coveted “Golden Scroll of Honour” award was presented to Ama Pema Jetsun, Tibetan activist and sister of the 14th Dalai read more →
Tibetan monk rescues German teenager from the streets of Cardiff
[WalesOnline] A teenage runaway from Germany has been rescued from the streets of Cardiff and reunited with his family thanks to the kindness of a Tibetan monk. Buddhist Lama Lobsang took Tilo Yaye, 18, into his home in Canton after he spotted him sleeping rough outside Cardiff Market two months read more →
In Mandalay Writers Meeting, Suu Kyi Addresses China Concerns
Aung San Suu Kyi speaks with Mandalay-based writers in Pyin Oo Lwin on Sunday. (Photo: Teza Hlaing / The Irrawaddy) [By Zarni Mann/The Irrawaddy] MANDALAY — Aung San Suu Kyi said over the weekend that the government must respect and protect its citizens from threats posed by illegal immigration, while read more →
Michelle Obama in China: internet freedom should be universal right
[Associated Press/The Guardian] First lady spoke to students at Peking University during a week-long trip in China aimed at promoting educational exchanges Michelle Obama takes pictures with students after delivering a speech at at Peking University. Photograph: Feng Li/Getty Images Michelle Obama on Saturday told students in China, which has read more →
Tibet: Letter to The Economist
[The Economist] A plea to China SIR – Following the tragic killing of 29 innocent people in Kunming, and the self immolation of 120 Tibetans in recent months, you pronounced that “the only way forward” is for China to show Uighurs and Tibetans “how they can live peacefully and prosperously read more →
In China, Michelle Obama calls for universal rights
[USA Today] BEIJING – The U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama called on China Saturday to respect universal rights including freedom of expression and religion, and open access to information. First lady Michelle Obama plays table tennis as Peng Liyuan, right, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, looks on during their visit read more →
China tiptoeing around the Crimea conflict
Illustration/South China Morning Post [Deutsche Welle] Beijing doesn’t want to give up a good relationship with Russia, but it’s also trying to maintain a policy of non-interference in the Crimean crisis. China could benefit from sanctions against Moscow – but at what price? Non-interference in the affairs of other states: read more →
The United States of China
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR [The New York Times] By Scott Moore Last week, China’s two primary legislative bodies, the National People’s Congress and the People’s Political Consultative Congress, convened their annual meetings in Beijing. Although the delegates’ primary function is to ratify decisions made by Communist Party leaders, the occasion of the read more →
Hundreds of Czech town halls to support Flag for Tibet initiative
The Flag for Tibet initiative traditionally takes place on 10 March. (ČTK) Prague, March 10 (CTK) – Town halls across the Czech Republic, including in Prague and Plzen, west Bohemia, hoisted the Tibetan flags yesterday to remember the 55th anniversary of the anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet in which at least read more →
Nepal tightens security ahead of Tibetan Uprising Day
[IANS] KATHMANDU: Security has been tightened around major Tibetan refugee settlements in Nepal ahead of Monday’s Tibetan Uprising Day anniversary, officials said Sunday. This would be the 55th anniversary of the uprising. Police said hundreds of security personnel in uniform and plain clothes have been deployed in Kathmandu’s Boudha, Swoyambhunath and Jawlakhel read more →
Founder of Tibet’s Communist Party makes a final plea for Dalai Lama’s return
By Patrick Boehler, South China Morning Post The founder of Tibet’s Communist Party has pleaded with the Chinese central government to allow the return of Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to his homeland in an autobiography soon to be published in Hong Kong. New Century Press, which published disgraced read more →
The Dalai Lama And The Cult Of Dolgyal Shugden
By Robert Thurman, The Huffington Post Ever since 1997, when, according to detailed Indian police investigations, pseudo- monks who infiltrated to Dharamsala from China murdered the Venerable Lobsang Gyatso, a noted lama close to the Dalai Lama, and his two young disciples, the cult of the Dolgyal-Shugden spirit has been read more →
Statement of Tibetan American Community on Shugden Group’s Security Threat to His Holiness the Dalai Lama
March 2, 2014 We the elected members of Tibetan Parliament in Exile from North America and Tibetan Associations of North America are gravely concerned by recent events that took place during the current visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to the United States. While thousands of fellow Americans celebrated read more →
Tibetans-in-exile mark New Year by offering prayers
Dharamsala, Mar 4. (ANI): Tibetans in-exile in Dharamsala celebrated ‘Losar’, the Tibetan New Year on Sunday, and pledged to uphold the cultural ethos and traditional values of humility, integrity and resilience. Tibetan monks were seen playing musical instruments and praying to mark the New Year. Penpa Tsering, speaker of Tibetan read more →
Tibetan political leader seeks official Canadian visit to region
Lobsang Sangay, leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile, is calling on Ottawa’s religious freedom envoy to visit Tibet. (Dave Chan For The Globe and Mail) [The Globe and Mail] By JUSTIN GIOVANNETTI The head of Tibet’s government-in-exile has called on Canadian officials to visit the contested Chinese region, saying that a large read more →