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U.S. lawmakers urge Biden to meet Dalai Lama
U.S. lawmakers across party lines on Tuesday urged President Joe Biden to meet with the Dalai Lama in a bid to ensure that Tibetans’ rights remain high on the agenda. Since George H.W. Bush in 1991, every sitting U.S. president has met the Tibetan spiritual leader except Donald Trump as read more →
Tibetan writer given 10-year prison term in secret trial
Radio Free Asia-Reported by Lhuboom Go Sherab Gyatso had written books and articles describing restrictions on Tibetans living under Chinese rule. A Chinese court in Tibet has given a 10-year prison term to a Tibetan writer and educator known for expressing loyalty to exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, with read more →
Tibetan students lock themselves to Olympic rings to protest Beijing games
-Reuters LAUSANNE, Dec 11- Two Tibetan students chained themselves to the Olympic rings outside the Swiss headquarters of the International Olympic Committee on Saturday to call for an international boycott of next year’s winter games. The pair were part of the latest protest against the 2022 Olympic Games over Beijing’s read more →
Tibetan President Penpa Tsering: Priority is to restart talks with China
The Week-By Namrata Biji Ahuja Penpa Tsering, sikyong (president) of the Dharamshala-based Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), has plans to expose the growing Chinese belligerence along the Indian border. The hawkish leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile has ordered his ministry of state security to prepare a report on the activities of read more →
China eyes bolstering mining across Tibet
Asia Times-by Dhondup Wangmo Before the invasion of Tibet by the People’s Republic of China (PRC), mining was rarely conducted in that region. Within the Tibetan cultural sphere, mining and ground disturbance are often said to remove “the bcud [nutrition or essence] of the earth, of which minerals are [a] primary form.” During the read more →
Journalists in China face ‘nightmare’ worthy of Mao era, press freedom group says
-The Guardian Xi Jinping has created a “nightmare” of media oppression worthy of the Mao era, and Hong Kong’s journalism is in “freefall”, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF). In a major report released on Wednesday, the journalism advocacy group detailed the worsening treatment of journalists and tightening of control read more →
Vast colonial boarding school system uncovered in Tibet
-By East Mojo Children as young as four are separated from parents, subjected to indocrination. Chinese government policies are forcing three out of every four Tibetan students into a vast network of colonial boarding schools, separating children as young as four from their parents, Tibet Action Institute revealed in a report on read more →
UK, Canada join diplomatic boycott of Beijing Winter Games
Reuters-December 9, 2021 OTTAWA/BEIJING, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Canada joined Australia, Britain and the United States in a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing on Wednesday, with China calling the boycotts “political posturing” and a smear campaign. The United States was the first to announce the boycott this week, saying read more →
Australia joins diplomatic boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics
-ABC News Australian officials will not attend the Beijing Winter Olympics, in a formal boycott of the Games over China’s human rights abuses against Uyghur minorities in the country. The US this week confirmed it would not send any diplomats or officials to the Games, while still allowing its athletes to read more →
Denisovans or Homo sapiens: Who were the first to settle (permanently) on the Tibetan Plateau?
Science Daily-University of California (Davis) Extinct Denisovans passed on genes that help Tibetans survive high altitudes. The Tibetan Plateau has long been considered one of the last places to be populated by people in their migration around the globe. A new paper by archaeologists at the University of California, Davis, read more →
A residential school system in China is stripping Tibetan children of their languages and culture, report claims
-The Globe And Mail “When you are cut off from your language and culture and history, you lose a sense of who you are, and eventually it feels like you’re losing the very fabric of your humanity,” Almost 80 per cent of Tibetan children in China have been placed in read more →
Chinese President Xi Jinping calls for tightening controls over religious affairs to boost national security
The Indian Express-December 6, 2021 Chinese President Xi Jinping has been calling for “sinicization” of religions, re-orienting them to function under the guidance of the CPC which ideologically remains atheist. Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for further measures to tighten the state’s control over religious affairs in the country, read more →
How a Hungarian scholar became the founder of modern Tibetology after reaching India
-Sourced by Scroll.in Nearly two centuries after Alexander Csoma de Kőrös set off on his journey to Asia, his scholarly legacy is still alive and well. In 1816, a 32-year-old Hungarian scholar with a special gift for learning languages won a scholarship to study at the University of Göttingen, a read more →
Nepal preparing to issue identification cards to refugees living in the country
The Kathmandu Post-December 4, 2021 Plan for now is to provide them to refugees from Bhutan, with no discussions yet on doing so for Tibetan refugees. The government is preparing to distribute identification cards to refugees living in Nepal. Officials confirmed the plan to distribute refugee identification cards but they read more →
Twitter and Facebook hit back at Chinese propaganda campaigns
Paul Mozur for The New York Times Twitter and Facebook said they have removed thousands of accounts connected to Chinese information campaigns, in the latest sign of Beijing’s ambitions to shape the global narrative around the country. In a notice posted early Thursday, Twitter said that it took action against read more →