Tibet news
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Tibetan Plateau is being impacted by climate change.
A new analysis released on Tuesday criticized China, the world’s largest producer and user of coal, cement, and steel, for climate change throughout the Tibetan Plateau, the world’s ‘third pole,’ in the run-up to the Glasgow climate negotiations (COP26) and the present UN biodiversity summit. It claims that climate change has a significant influence on…
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Chinese Detective Describes Torture Carried Out Against Uyghurs.
According to a former Chinese police detective, hundreds of police officers armed with rifles went house to house in Uyghur settlements in China’s far western area, removing people from their houses, handcuffing and hooding them, and threatening to shoot them if they fought. To safeguard his family members who remain in China, the ex-detective turned…
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Tibetans in Belgium Hold Green Book Day Event
On Saturday, the Belgium Tibetan Community Association hosted a two-day Green Book Day celebration in Antwerpen, Belgium’s most Tibetan-populated city, according to Tibet.net. Due to overwhelming demand, it had to be replayed on Sunday as well.
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Standing Committee of 17th TPiE meets for the first time.
The inaugural Standing Committee of the 17th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile welcomed new members today. According to Article 42 of the Tibetans in Exile Charter, a Standing Committee comprised of two Parliamentarians from each of the three traditional provinces and one Parliamentarian from each of the religious schools was formed and began the process of allocating members…
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Tibet’s Buddhists are being pressured by Beijing to translate classroom texts into Mandarin.
According to RFA, Chinese authorities have urged Buddhist monasteries in Tibet to translate classroom texts from Tibetan into Mandarin, China’s “common language,” in order to strengthen control over TAR(Tibet Autonomous Region). Beijing has also told monks and nuns to communicate in Chinese rather than their native tongue(Tibetan), according to Radio Free Asia. The goal of…
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Sikyong Penpa Tsering urges for greater ties between Taiwan and Tibet
Sikyong Penpa Tsering expressed hope on Monday that Taiwan and Tibet’s ties may be strengthened. He expressed the hope that Taipei will provide Tibetan students with scholarships and encourage increased exchanges between the two countries. He said Taiwan is a wonderful site for Tibetans to learn Chinese and study international relations, and that studying there…
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Speaker and Deputy Speaker elected by 17th Tibetan Parliament in Exile.
Under the supervision of the Tibetan Election Commission, the 17th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile elected its Speaker and Deputy Speaker on the afternoon of October 8th. The Chief Election Commissioner, Pesur Wangdu Tsering, outlined the voting procedures and regulations prior to the actual voting.
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Members of 17th Tibetan Parliament in exile takes Oath
At a ceremony held at the Tibetan Parliamentary secretariat today, the elected members of the 17th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile were sworn in in accordance with the Tibetan exiles’ charter. The Central Tibetan Administration’s Sikyong Penpa Tsering was present at the swearing-in ceremony.
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Dalai Lama Advises Tibetan Parliamentarians To Take Oath As the Charter
The Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama has advised the Tibetan parliamentarians to swear in as per the charter. As the elected members of the 17th members of the Tibetan parliament in exile are stuck in a deadlock, in response to a request for guidance from His Holiness, the parliamentarians have been advised…
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TIBETAN TEENAGERS BEGIN THEIR SCHOOL YEAR WITH MILITARY TRAINING.
A six-day training on national defense education was held at a newly opened camp in Nagchu City. The opening ceremony of China’s third military training summer camp for teenage kids in Nagchu City has been announced by Chinese authorities in the central Tibetan region of U-Tsang.