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Dalai Lama donates ₹11 lakh to Kerala’s flood-relief bid
The Hindu – 18 October 2021 Click here The Dalai Lama has donated ₹11 lakh to Kerala’s flood-relief efforts. In a letter to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, the Lama has expressed his deep sadness at the loss of lives and property due to flooding and landslips. “I am writing to read more →
Olympic protesters held in Athens
-Sourced by Taipei Times Two women yesterday morning attempted to hang a banner from the Acropolis in Athens in protest at the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, but were detained by Greek police. The women, 18-year-old Tibetan student Tsela Zoksang and 22-year-old exiled Hong Konger Joey Siu (邵嵐), both US citizens, read more →
Tibetan scholar arrested for his writings was given four-year prison term following secret trial
Reported by Sangyal Kunchok for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. A Tibetan writer arrested two years ago on unspecified charges has been sentenced by a Chinese court to a four-year prison term, with no word given by authorities on when his sentence read more →
Game Theory Boards Canadian Tibetan-Language Drama ‘Tenzin’; Netflix & UNESCO Team On Sub-Saharan Africa Short Film Comp – Global Briefs
-Sourced by Deadline EXCLUSIVE: Game Theory Films has acquired Canadian rights to the Canadian Tibetan-language drama Tenzin. Co-directed by Michael LeBlanc and Joshua Reichmann, the film will have its world premiere at this year’s Tallinn Black Nights Festival next month. Featuring a cast of first time actors, the titular character is a young read more →
China’s Land Management Policies in Tibet ‘Unsustainable’: Report
-Radio Free Asia Tibetan. Reported by Lobe Socktsang for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Policies aimed at mitigating climate change are destroying Tibetan approaches to managing the land and forcing nomads from their grazing grounds. Chinese policies aimed at mitigating climate change read more →
Climate change in Tibetan Plateau impacts livelihoods: Report
National Herald In the run up to the Glasgow climate talks (COP26) and the ongoing UN biodiversity summit, a new report on Tuesday blamed China, the world’s biggest maker and user of coal, cement and steel, for climate change across the Tibetan Plateau, the world’s ‘third pole’. It says climate read more →
India must go beyond talkathon, start questioning Chinese claims on Tibet, Hong Kong and Xinjiang
Maj Gen SB Asthana for First Post The 13th round of Corps Commander level talks between India and China ending at an awkward note was not a surprise to anyone analysing Chinese activities prior to the talks. The talks happened in the backdrop of recent incidents of intrusions by Chinese troops read more →
Major Leadership Reshuffle in “TAR” in Run-up to the 20th Party Congress
By Tenzin Tseten, Tibet Policy Institute (TPI) – 8 October 2021 In the midst of leadership reshuffle ahead of the much-awaited once-in-a-decade leadership transition during the forthcoming 20th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong based English-language portal, reported on a transfer read more →
With all eyes on Taiwan, tensions are building on another Chinese frontier: India
By Brad Lendon, CNN – 13 October 2021 Hong Kong (CNN)China’s increased military activity in the Taiwan Strait may have grabbed all the headlines in recent weeks, but thousands of miles to the west, another simmering territorial dispute on the country’s borders looks more likely to boil over first. Just read more →
Claude Arpi: Stop China from erasing ‘the heart of the world’
-Sourced by Deccan Chronicle Have you heard of the “Hidden Land of Pemako”? It is the area where China is planning to build mega hydropower stations in the Great Bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) during its forthcoming 14th Five Year Plan. This project, three times the size of the read more →
Tibetan Sikyong Penpa Tsering calls for closer relations
Taipei Times – 10 October 2021 Central Tibetan Administration leader Penpa Tsering on Monday expressed hope that Taiwan and Tibet can strengthen mutual ties. “There are many aspects in which we can work together,” said Penpa Tsering, who in May took office as sikyong of the Tibetan government-in-exile. “We still read more →
China’s Communist Party Formally Embraces Assimilationist Approach to Ethnic Minorities
The Wall Street Journal – 8 October 2021 SINGAPORE—After launching experiments aimed at more forcefully assimilating ethnic minorities in remote regions, China’s Communist Party has moved subtly but decisively to make cultural assimilation the central tenet of its policy for managing minority populations nationwide. An updated blueprint for childhood development read more →
Chinese Government Officially Confirms the Detention of Two Tibetans
-Sourced by Free Tibet The Chinese government has responded to a letter by United Nations experts, confirming the imprisonment of Rinchen Tsultrim and the detention of Go Sherab Gyatso. The Chinese government has confirmed that two Tibetan men are in its custody and that one of them has already been read more →
Tibetan Teenagers in Central Tibet Start School Year With Military Training
-From Free Tibet A newly opened camp in Nagchu City held a six-day training on national defence education. Chinese authorities in the central Tibetan province of U-Tsang have announced the opening ceremony of its third military training summer camp for teenage schoolchildren in Nagchu City. On 13 September, the propaganda read more →
China shifts top Tibet official to Beijing ahead of next year’s CPC leadership reshuffle
PTI – 6 October 2021 The New Indian Express BEIJING: Qizhala, an ethnic Tibetan and Chairman of China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, has been shifted to Beijing by the ruling Communist Party for a higher position in the national legislature ahead of the top leadership reshuffle next year and a possible read more →