4 responses to “Tibetan Travel Agent Arrested for Selling Fake Passports”

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   Do tulku

   March 16, 2018

   Tashi delek,

   I would like to raise a point here.
   If his name is Yolmu Thasi, thats not tibetan. He seem to be from Yolmo and thasi seem to be their attempt to spell Tashi.

   A journel such as yours should atleast do a background check before reporting him as an tibetan. If he is a tibetan, then he should be mentioned with details of his residence as a mark of thorough check up.

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      Damcha

      March 16, 2018

      Well said, the editor or whosoever, needs to do a thorough reality check before publishing a piece of news and most importantly the journal should respond to questions and doubts….
      I see that you are making mistakes… repeatedly.

      Thank you

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   Tenzin Tashi

   March 16, 2018

   The Yolmo people are an indigenous people of the Eastern Himalayan Region. They refer to themselves as the “Yolmopa”,[1] and are native residents of the Helambu and Melamchi valleys (situated over 43.4 kilometres/27 miles and 44.1 kilometres/27.4 miles to the north of Kathmandu respectively) and the surrounding regions of northeastern Nepal. The combined population of Yolmos in these regions is close to 10,000. They also have sizeable communities in Bhutan Darjeeling and Sikkim. They are among the 59 indigenous groups officially recognized by the Government of Nepal as having a distinct cultural identity[1] and are also listed as one of the 645 Scheduled Tribes

   The Yolmo people speak the Yolmo language of the Kyirong-Kagate branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Accordingly, it has a high lexical similarity to Tibetan, although the two languages are not completely mutually intelligible. They are traditionally known to wear the bakhu, which shares many stylistic cues with the chuba, the traditional attire of the Tibetans.[2] However, a large number of Yolmos native to Nepal, notably from Tarkeghyang, Milimchim Gaon, Shermathang, Dhana, Sarkathali among others, prefer to wear the daura-suruwal, the national attire of Nepal.””

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   Tenzin

   March 16, 2018

   Can you write the exact name of the travel agency?! Why do you say Tibetan Travel Agency?! Not all of them are fraud and this vague report is defaming all the tibetan travel agency’s name.

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