Tibetan
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Tibetan students are protesting the Winter Olympics in Beijing.
On Thursday, a group of Tibetan students protested the Beijing Winter Olympics in Mcleod Ganj’s main square. The protest was led by Students for Free Tibet, an exiled Tibetan organization. One demonstrator wore a mask picturing China’s President Xi Jinping, while others sat inside a mock jail with their faces and hands stained in red,…
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Nepalese government does not include Tibetans in the scope of the certificate of refuge.
According to the Kathmandu State New, Nepal’s government plans to issue asylum certificates to the refugees living there, but this time mainly to the Bhutanese people. The Nepalese government has made it clear that there is no asylum certificate for Tibetan refugees. As per Zangpo, the spokesperson on human rights groups in Nepal, as the…
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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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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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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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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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Swiss Tibetan rallyed for 1000 Km of solo cycle to raise awareness on Chinese repression.
A Swiss-Tibetan held a solo cycle rally of 1000 kilometers from Winterthur to Geneva to raise awareness about the violent repression by China in Tibet. The 46-year-old Tsering Wangdu started his bike rally at the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva on 7 May covering close to 1000 kilometers of bad weather. According…
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Study shows Blood parameters of Tibetans alter with altitude
Tibetans have a legendary ability to withstand altitude and cold extremes, which has been conditioned by the harsh climate of the Tibetan plateau. Scientists had discovered a gene that increases hemoglobin oxygen saturation and the fact that Tibetan children develop faster than other children up to the age of five(presumably as a defense against heat…
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US Congratulates Newly Elected President of Tibetan Govt. in Exile, Penpa Tsering
United States greeted Penpa Tsering as the next Sikyong/president of the Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamshala (CTA). “Penpa Tsering is congratulated by the United States on his election as next Sikyong in the Central Tibetan Government (CTA). We are happy to cooperate with him and the CTA to help Tibetan global diaspora, “Speaker Ned Price of…
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China Prohibits Tibetan Children To Have Any Religious Objects in Schools
In one province of Tibet, Chinese authorities declare that Tibetan children’s parents can no longer put rosaries, prayer wheels, or any other religious object on the schools, as China is pursuing policies that erode the distinct Tibetan cultural identity. A Tibetan living in the Sog district of Tibetan Autonomous Region of Nagchu (Naqu) said RFA’s…