One of Tibet’s key rivers Yarlung Tsangpo, the headwaters of the Brahmaputra river has been blocked by a massive landslide causing a barrier-lake to form. The local Chinese emergency response bureau has said there is eminent danger that the blockage could give way to flashfloods in the lower re
Tibetan, Southern Mongolian and Uyghur protestors gathered in numbers on the opening day of the 12th ASEM (Asian and European Meeting) on Wednesday in Bru
Local Tibetans in Choeje village in the Tsolho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture’s Chabcha county, Qinghai province were attacked and beaten by Chinese workers for protesting aga
National Democratic Party of Tibet today said that despite the electoral reform that bars NGOs including regional and religious groups from endorsing presidential and parliamentary candidates in future elections, the party will continue to work and lobby
The massive landslide on the banks of the Drichu river (ch. Yangtse) near Chamdo city in Jomda county last week in occupied Tibet’s Sichuan Province is linked with heavy mi
Tibetan refugees in the Indian state of Odisha are faced with a rude awakening in the aftermath of the destructive cyclone ‘Titli’ that made land fall in Gajapati district on Thursday where the Tibetan settlement is located. While days ago Tibetans there were face
In a grand gesture, the exile Tibetan community based in the state of Himachal Pradesh, along with the Central Tibetan Administration and Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai La
The 9th edition of the Tibet Film Festival was opened simultaneously in Zurich, Switzerland and here in Dharamshala, the virtual capital of the Tibetan diaspora, over the wee
China is set to begin work on a new railway line in occupied-Tibet, dubbed the “world’s most challenging” railway line. President Xi Jinping on Wednesday announced the “full l
In a move seen as truce between opposing claimants of the Karmapa title, the two main claimants of the title to the foremost religious head of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibet
The 2018 report of a United State’s independent agency, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), published Wednesday, said there is a growing repression on multiple fronts in Tibet. The report shows deteriorating freedom of religio
A Tibetan youth has won the top singing reality show of China, making him the second Tibetan to win ‘Sing! China’. Tenzin Nyima was declared the winner of the third seaso
The Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai has said that American journalists, students and scholars are denied entry into Tibet due to their supposed incapacity to handle
A newly formed Tibet Support Group in the French Assemblée Nationale (National Assembly), the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of France, was unveiled on Mon
The President of the exile Tibetan government known officially as the Central Tibetan Administration, Dr. Lobsang Sangay on Sunday, said that European stakeholder
Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama has congratulated the two 2018 winners of the prestigious Nobel Peace prize. The Tibetan leader, winner if the award in 1989, said h
Lauding the decision of the Tibetan parliament to retain the two-phase election system of the exile Tibetan government, a prominent Dharamshala based rights group said that the development is a v
United States Vice-President Mike Pence on Thursday spoke against China’s crack down on religious freedom and minorities, calling it a “new wave of persecution” at the Hudson Institute, a cons
Foremost Buddhist leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama today said that praying alone will not dispel ignorance but fostering a compassionate stance in life to enable spiritual growt
Despite suffering a set back in securing the parliament’s support for key changes in the electoral laws introduced by the Kashag (cabinet), Tibetan President Dr. Lobsang Sang
