Illegal coal mining on a state-protected nature reserve in China’s northwestern Qinghai province has caused massive ecological damage and deprived Tibetan nomads of food for livestock, sources in the region told RFA. Chinese authorities announced Sunday that, following local media investigations..
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SINDHUPALCHWOK: The Nyalam County in Tibet Autonomous Region of China is to provide the biggest in-kind support to Sindhupalchowk district so far. Sindhupalchowk will receive medical appliances from Nyalam County to step up its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in the district, said CDO of..
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Beijing still tightly restricts travel by U.S. citizens to Tibet and other Tibetan regions of China, the U.S. State Department says, describing the situation as “unimproved” in its second report to Congress under a law aimed at pressing Beijing to allow greater access to the Himalayan..
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MAKWANPUR: The Government of Tibet (an autonomous region of China) has donated medical appliances worth amounting to Rs 130 million to the Government of Bagmati State. Representatives of Deputy Division Chief of the International Cooperation and Exchange of FAO jointly handed the devices to Under..
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By N24 Correspondent, NEW DELHI: Five UN independent mandate holders have strongly demanded China to provide “prompt and detailed information” on the whereabouts of Tibet’s 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima and have endorsed the “CRC” (Committee on the Rights of the Child)’s..
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By N24 Correspondent, NEW DELHI:- Tibetan freedom fighter, Ama Adhe, who spent 27 years in a prison of the Chinese communist totalitarian regime for taking part in the Tibetan resistance against China's invasion of Tibet in the late 1950s, passed away at the age of 88 in Dharamshala, India on..
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Tibetans living under China’s rule are routinely denied the right to a fair trial, with judicial proceedings against them often held in secret and confessions obtained under torture used against them in court, a Tibetan rights group says in a new report. Especially in cases deemed politically..
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Ngaba, the main town of a Tibetan-populated region of western China’s Sichuan province, has been the scene of repeated self-immolations and other protests in recent years by scores of monks, former monks, and other Tibetans calling for Tibetan freedom, language rights, and the return of exiled..
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China’s closing on Monday of the U.S. consulate in Chengdu, a move taken in retaliation for Washington’s shutdown last week of a Chinese consulate in Houston, will now hamper U.S. efforts to gather data on human rights violations in Tibet and other Tibetan-populated areas of western China,..
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BRUSSELS:- With His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama just turning 85, the European Union (EU)’s Foreign Policy Chief has made the EU’s position clear on his succession, stating that the EU opposes any interference in the process by the authoritarian communist government of China. According to..
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By N24 Correspondent, NEW DELHI:- The Chinese totalitarian regime led by the Communist Party of China (CPC) has sentenced two Tibetans for seven and three years each for composing and uploading a song in social media that praised the Dalai Lama, the only legitimate spiritual leader of Tibetans all..
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By N24 Correspondent, NEW DELHI:- To bring worldwide attention and support for the current critical situation in Tibet under the Chinese totalitarian communist oppressive regime, the India-based five leading Tibetan non-government organizations (NGOs) have called upon the international communities,..
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By Jyoti Dhakal, KATHMANDU:- Every other day, news reports of brutalities from police and other security personnel from Chinese and Nepalese side against the Tibetan refugees surface in the media. The Tibetans are, first of all, not allowed to cross the Chinese border into Nepal. Even when they..
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Recent tensions between India and China along the unmarked border in India’s northeastern region of Ladakh demonstrate Beijing’s continued intention to annex disputed areas and expand its influence in South Asia, the head of Tibet’s India-based exile government said this week. Thousands of..
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Tibet’s India-based exile government and supporters in the United States called on Beijing on Monday to free Tibet’s second-best-known religious leader the Panchen Lama, who disappeared as a young boy into Chinese custody on 25 years ago on May 17 and is believed to be languishing under house..
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The Trump administration must move quickly to fill a long-vacant State Department position focused on Tibetan issues, a bipartisan U.S. commission monitoring religious freedoms said on Tuesday, calling the Special Coordinator post crucial to mobilizing government resources to address deteriorating..
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Tibetan nomads in China’s western Sichuan province have appealed to the Chinese government to drop a plan that would make Mandarin Chinese the official language of instruction in Tibetan schools in the Ngaba (in Chinese Ābà) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. A delegation of nomads said in a..
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A growing emphasis on Chinese-language schooling in Tibet, though facilitating greater participation in China’s modern economy, is slowly destroying the cultural identity of Tibetan schoolchildren, according to a report released on Thursday by Human Rights Watch. China’s education policy in..
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An exhibit showing supposed social advances in Tibet was closed in a New York City library this weekend following ten days of protests by Tibetan activist groups and their supporters, ending a Chinese consulate-sponsored effort to show China’s rule of the once-independent Himalayan nation as..
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Confirmed cases of coronavirus infection in Sichuan’s Tawu county are continuing to climb, with three new cases reported on Wednesday bringing the total to 60, all of them ethnic Tibetans, sources in the region say. In a Feb. 19 statement, the Health Commission of the Kardze (in Chinese, Ganzi)..
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A near-10% drop in the value of the US dollar since its March high has given rise to two distinct narratives. The first takes a short-term perspective, focusing on how a..
