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Indian-Tibetan Aftab Pureval elected Mayor of US city in Ohio
The Times of India – Nov 3, 2021, 23:34 IST WASHINGTON: Aftab Pureval, an Indian-Tibetan has been elected as Mayor of Cincinnati city in the US state of Ohio, making him the first member of the community to be elected for such a position. Pureval, 38, a son of refugee read more →
Chinese authorities ban outside-school classes for Tibetan children
-Radio Free Asia The move threatens Tibetan children’s connection to their native language, often taught outside the schools. Authorities in northwestern China’s Qinghai province are blocking Tibetan children from taking classes outside their schools over winter holidays in a move aimed at further weakening t connection to their native language, read more →
‘Blaming Nehru would not solve China problem’: Nirupama Rao
Hindustan Times – 3 November 2021 Former foreign secretary Nirupama Rao’s new book, The Fractured Himalaya, looks at the early years of the India-China relationship. She spoke to Sunetra Choudhury about writing the book amid the protracted India and China border standoff. Edited excerpts: Did the situation along the border read more →
CDS Bipin Rawat’s big statement on Tibet, China may shake the sesame seeds
-By News Track New Delhi: CDS Bipin Rawat on Sunday sent a big message about the Indian Army. He has stressed that the army needs to be deployed on disputed borders throughout the year. In his address, Rawat also launched a scathing attack on China. He mirrored China referring to Sardar read more →
Tributes pouring in, Tibetans and colleagues remember the Dalai Lama’s British ‘friend’ Mr Fredrick Hyde-Chambers OBE in their prayers
-Sourced by Tsamtruk Network Within hours of learning the sad news of the passing of their dear friend, Mr Fredrick Hyde-Chambers OBE – popularly known as “Riki”, the Tibetan Community in Britain started praying for the deceased soul. Tibetan children, teachers and parents recited Buddhist prayers for “Riki” during the read more →
China accused of blocking media access to Winter Olympics
The Guardian, 2 November 2021 Chinese authorities have been accused of “continuously stymying” attempts by foreign media to cover the Winter Olympics, by denying or ignoring requests for access and following, harassing and abusing journalists. In a scathing statement on Tuesday, the Foreign Correspondents Club of China, which acts on read more →
Tibetan tale
-By The Statesman: November 1, 2021 3:17 pm The elephant in the room, however, is the Dalai Lama and his reincarnation. Former Indian foreign secretary Shyam Saran writing in a contemporary a few weeks ago made the point that to understand the Chinese leadership’s mind on Tibet, one needs to read more →
Tibetan Political Prisoner Released After Serving Five-Year Sentence
Sourced by Free Tibet- Information supplied by Tibet Watch Gendun Dapaka was arbitrarily detained in 2015 on charges of ‘inciting separatism’ Sources have confirmed to Free Tibet that one of the Tibetan monks arbitrarily arrested from Thangkor Socktsang Monastery in 2015 has been released after serving a five-year prison sentence for read more →
China erases memories of popular Tibetan monk who died in prison
Reported by Sangyal Kunchok for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Chinese authorities are banning public discussion of a popular Tibetan religious teacher six years after his death in a Sichuan prison, removing him from official religious histories and shutting down an online read more →
Climate Change Crisis: Tibetan Plateau to Get Spotlight at the COP26 Summit
By IANS – 27 October 2021 To adapt to the effects of climate change impacting the Tibetan Plateau—the world’s ‘third pole’—a group of Tibetans will explain its role in the global climate system and why it should be part of the conversation at the upcoming two-week United Nations conference, COP26, read more →
Chinese tourists crowd Tibet’s Lhasa amid COVID surge in Chinese provinces
Radio Free Asia-Reported by Sangyal Kunchok and Taring Tenzin Norbu for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Chinese tourists must show only negative COVID tests, while Tibetan travelers are often barred from entry. Tourists from China are pouring into Tibet’s capital Lhasa in read more →
Posters with Tibetan flag reported removed outside Chinese Embassy in Denmark
Reuters COPENHAGEN, Oct 26 (Reuters) – A Danish election candidate said 10 election posters of himself standing next to the Tibetan flag were removed shortly after he put them up outside the Chinese Embassy in a suburb of the capital Copenhagen. Thomas Rohden, a candidate in upcoming local elections and read more →
China continues to suppress Uyghurs, Tibetans through new mechanisms
BEIJING: China has created fresh internal and external mechanisms to further monitor and control the Uyghur population in the Western province of Xinjiang by instituting a new system of involving ‘managers’ who are responsible for monitoring Uyghur households, creating fake families from the Han Chinese majority, a media report said. Writing in The Sunday read more →
“Xizang”: China Is Stealing from Tibet Even Its Name
By Lopsang Gurung, Bitter Winter – 26 October 2021 On October 20, the readers of English-language Chinese propaganda mouthpiece Global Times could read the following news item: “Chinese officials spoke highly of the rapid development and prosperity of… Xizang Autonomous Region under the successful governance of the Communist Party of read more →
The Perils of an Unresolved Boundary
By Nirupama Rao, The Hindu, 26 October 2021 The India-China relationship is in a difficult place, with the past shadowing the present. The period from 1949 to 1962 is crucial as Jawaharlal Nehru sought, albeit unsuccessfully, to establish a workable relationship with the Chinese. Nirupama Rao, former Foreign Secretary and read more →