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“Victory to Tibet, Victory to Tibetan Independence”: Tibetan Activist’s Final Video Message Before Self-Immolation Outside UN
By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA, 2 July: Veteran Tibetan activist Lobsang Palden, widely known as Lobga Rangzen and president of the Tibetan National Congress (TNC), died after self-immolating outside the United Nations headquarters in New York on 2 July. He...
Tibetans Worldwide Protest China’s Ethnic Unity Law as It Takes Effect
By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA, 1 July: Tibetans across the world staged coordinated protests on Wednesday as China’s Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress came into force, with a coalition of four Tibetan non-governmental organisations leading demonstrations in Dharamsala...
Ahead of Implementation, Sikyong Slams China’s Ethnic Unity Law as Escalation of Assimilation Policy
By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA, 30 June: With China's “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress” set to take effect on 1 July, Sikyong (President) Penpa Tsering of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) on Monday rejected the legislation as a...
OBITUARY — LHASANG TSERING: A TRUE PRACTITIONER OF THE DALAI LAMA’S DEMOCRACYBy- VIJAY KRANTI
By Vijay Kranti Losing a friend whom you adore and love immensely is not an ordinary loss. Passing away of Lhasang Tsering is a personal loss for me for so many reasons. He was among that very first bunch...
Not Middle Way’s Failure, But China’s Greed and Arrogance, Says Tibetan Speaker at Dharamsala Conference
By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA, 26 June: The Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile Dolma Tsering Teykhang, speaking in her personal capacity, said China's newly adopted law “Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress” does not warrant revising the Middle Way Approach, arguing...
As India and China Warm Relations, Tibet Remains the Unspoken Question
By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA, 24 June: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in New Delhi on Tuesday, reaffirming the steady improvement in India-China relations and accepting Chinese President Xi Jinping's invitation to attend the...
UN Human Rights Chief Calls on China to Repeal Ethnic Unity Law Ahead of 1 July Implementation
By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA, 18 June: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has called on China to repeal its newly adopted “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress,” warning that the legislation risks further restricting the...
Tibetans Bid Final farewell to Lhasang Tsering, a Voice of Conviction in Tibet’s Freedom Struggle
By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA, 15 June: As friends, admirers, and fellow Tibetans gathered to bid him a final farewell, veteran Tibetan independence activist, writer, and poet Lhasang Tsering was cremated on Monday at the crematorium located half kilometre to...
TSJC declines to register Nepal monasteries’ writ petition, says case may proceed through merger with Case No. 22
The Tibetan Supreme Justice Commission (TSJC) has declined to register a writ petition filed by two Nepal-based monasteries seeking protection of their fundamental right to vote, ruling that the matter substantially overlaps with an already pending civil suit and...
Two Nepal-Based Monasteries Challenge Choejor Voting Suspension in CTA Apex Court
Two monastic communities from the Choejor Tibetan Refugee Settlement in Nepal have challenged the Tibetan Election Commission’s decision to suspend final-round voting in the constituency, arguing before the Tibetan Supreme Justice Commission (TSJC) that the move violated their fundamental...
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