Dharamshala: India’s national capital remains one of the worst impacted regions with Covid surge since the deadly second wave, with 19,832 new cases in the last 24 hours and so with an increasing number of cases among Tibetans in the capital. Bearing the brunt at the frontlines are the nurses of the Tibetan primary health...

Washington DC: Senator Marco Rubio & Senator Patrick Leahy, original sponsor and co-sponsor of the Tibetan Policy and Support Act has sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken to applaud the “the removal of gratuitous language regarding U.S. policy on Tibet’s relationship to the People’s Republic of China from the annual Human Rights...

Dharamshala: As the threat of a third wave of Covid-19 looms large in the not so distant future, Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay has called for a complete lockdown in Tibetan settlements across India for one week from 10 May. “What we need now is collective and coordinated effort to break the chain no matter what...

Dharamshala: In what comes as a significant development on the Tibet issue, Foreign ministers from the G7 group condemned China’s human rights abuses in Tibet in a 12,400-word communique on China. The first in-person G-7 summit hosted by the UK in over two years held between 3-5 May 2021 in London highlighted some critical geopolitical...

Dharamshala: India’s national capital remains one of the worst impacted regions with Covid surge since the deadly second wave, with 19,832 new cases in the last 24 hours and so with an increasing number of cases among Tibetans in the capital. Bearing the brunt at the frontlines are the nurses of the Tibetan primary health...

Foreign Policy 7 May 2021 In October 2015, China announced that a new village, called Gyalaphug in Tibetan or Jieluobu in Chinese, had been established in the south of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). In April 2020, the Communist Party secretary of the TAR, Wu Yingjie, traveled across two passes, both more than 14,000 feet...

Reuters 7 May 2021 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken took a veiled swipe at Russia and China on Friday during a U.N. Security Council meeting chaired by his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, warning that the actions of some big powers portrays impunity to others. The meeting on multilateralism, convened by China as council president...

Dharamshala: Deputy Speaker of the 16th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, Acharya Yeshi Phuntsok, extended his heartfelt condolences on the demise of Rashtriya Lok Dal Chief and former Union Minister Ajit Singh Chaudhary. In a letter written to Shri Jayant Chaudhary, former MP and son of Shri Ajit Ji, the Deputy Speaker wrote, “It is with immense sorrow...