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Enes Freedom Felicitated at Geneva Summit for Raising China’s Human Rights Abuses
Enes Kanter Freedom, a Turkish-American professional basketball player, and outspoken human rights activist was awarded the 2022 Geneva summit Courage Award for his outstanding contribution to the defense of human rights, particularly regarding China’s brutal human rights abuses on minorities such as Tibetans. Enes had accepted the prize humbly on behalf of “all human rights…
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Popular Tibetan Musician’s Upcoming Concert in Australia
Tenzin Choegyal, a Tibetan-Australian performer, is heading to Merimbula to take listeners on a musical journey to Tibet, according to begadistrictnews. On Sunday, May 1, Mr. Choegyal will perform his concert ‘Be the Mountain’ at Twyford Hall in Merimbula.
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Tibetans Protest Outside Chinese Embassy in Paris
On Saturday, students from the ‘Students for a Free Tibet-France’ (SFT-France) group and five other Tibetan organizations protested outside the Chinese embassy in Paris against three self-immolations that occurred in their nation in March.
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A Former Top Chinese Official in Tibet Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison
Last month, a former top official in China’s Qinghai province was sentenced to 11 years in prison for accepting almost $3 million in bribes from mining and construction companies, corporations, and people while in office, as per RFA report. From 2009 to 2020, Wen Guodong was the vice governor of Qinghai Province. The report continued…
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Sri Lanka Current Predicament due to China’s Debt Trap
China is substantially to blame for Sri Lanka’s current position along with the island nation’s rulers’ budgetary profligacy, which is presently wracked by economic and political turmoil. Sri Lanka has received huge loans from China, which it has used to construct an airport and a seaport. The airport, Mattala Rajapaksa International airport, which has been…
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Tenzin Tsundue Bravely Displays Tibetan Flag At Geneva Summit
Mr. Tenzin Tsundue, a well-known Tibetan freedom activist, announced on his official Facebook page on April 2nd that he will be on a speaking tour in Europe, beginning with the Geneva Summit on Human Rights on April 4-6, and continuing with events in Switzerland 7-10, Sweden 11-17, Norway 18-20, Denmark 20-22, Spain 23-25, and the…
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Tibetan Delegation Campaigns in Delhi After Chinese FM’s India Visit
This week, the Tibetan parliamentary delegation led by Dolma Tsering been meeting Indian MPs and political leaders, with a focus on interactions with lawmakers from the north-eastern states to discuss China’s “hydro-hegemony” by controlling the waters of cross-border rivers like the Brahmaputra. Since Monday, the delegation led by legislators Tenpa Yarphel, Khenpo Kada Ngedup Sonam,…
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Indian MP Moves Bill to Include Tibetan(Bhoti) As One of India’s Official Languages
In an unprecedented move, the Honourable Member of Parliament Mr. Jamyang Tsering Namgyal introduced a Private Member’s Bill in the Lok Sabha on April 1, 2022, to put the Bhoti Language in the Indian constitution’s 8th Schedule.
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Dalai Lama Graces An Audience to Shoton Festival Participating Troupe
On the second day of Shoton Festival, this morning at Tsuglagkhang, His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave a special audience to the eight participating troupes of the 25th Shoton festival in Dharamshala, as well as members of the Middle Way Approach Conference.
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TIPA hosts 25th Tibetan Opera Festival Shoton
On Wednesday, TIPA initiated its 25th Tibetan Shoton Festival which celebrates Tibetan Opera from April 6 to 13 here at Dharamshala. Shoton translates to “yogurt banquet” in Tibetan. Tibetan artists perform traditional operas throughout the event, and prominent monasteries showcase enormous Thangkas – Buddha paintings.