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Dalai Lama congratulates President Macron on re-election
President Macron’s re-election has been congratulated by the Tibetan spritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, according to His Holiness’s official website dalailama.com. In a letter to President Macron, His Holiness the Dalai Lama congratulated President Macron on his historic re-election as President of France for a second five-year term on Monday.
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PM of Japan will not attend opening ceremony of Beijing Winter Olympics.
Fumio Kishida, Japan’s prime minister, has indicated he will not attend the Winter Olympics in Beijing’s opening ceremony, but it is unclear whether the country will join a US-led diplomatic boycott over human rights abuses. Kishida has only stated that he will make a decision based on Japan’s “national interest,” possibly by the end of…
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Despite assurances of employment, Tibetan graduates are unable to find job.
With Han Chinese saturating the labor market and public-sector jobs mostly out of reach, Tibetan university graduates are finding it difficult to find work in Tibet’s capital, Lhasa. Authorities’ promises to develop more opportunities for Tibetan graduates have gone unfulfilled in recent years.
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SFT in France protests against Chinese detention of Panchen Lama
Paris [France], April 26: Sunday, On the 11th Panchen Lama’s birthday, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, who was recognized by the Dalai Lama in 1995, 300 protesters gathered in the Place de la Republique to demand his release. Students from Students for Free Tibet-France staged a protest in Paris against China’s continued detention of the 11th Panchen…