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Liu Xia’s Escape from China Hints at a China Germany Deal
Liu Xia, widow of Chinese activist and 2010 Nobel Award winner Liu Xiabao has left China a year after her husband’s death. She has been under house arrest to varying degree since 2010. This development came along with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to Germany. Liu Xia, a poet for whom Xiabao expressed his profound love many…
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United States Taking Action to Ensure Reciprocal Access to Tibet
Trump Administration is taking actions to ensure access of Americans to Tibet on a reciprocal basis. Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of State, said that he is taking action to ‘guarantee’ reciprocal access to Tibet based on principles on reciprocity. Reciprocity is the one of the foundations of International diplomacy. In crude terms it means you will get what you…
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Dalai Lama’s Health Condition Better Than Previous Year
The Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s slight delay in scheduled visit to the Nubra valley from Leh on Thursday was reported to be due to exhaustion and not due to suffering from common cold. The Tibet Times report in Tibetan quoted the clarification from His Holiness’s personal physician who further informed that…
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Local Leaders Review Arrangements for Dalai Lama’s Visit to Zanskar & Kargil
The local leaders from Kargil district in Ladakh region convened meetings and carried out a thorough review of all the important arrangements being made for the Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s visit. His Holiness has accepted the request made for his visit to the region during his month long stay in Ladakh.
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Caterpillar Fungus ‘Gold Rush’ and Tibetan Nomads
Tibetans inside Tibet especially in the Qinghai province and the Tibet Autonomous Region, come the month of May and the rush to set out for harvest the rare and highly priced caterpillar fungus or locally well known as ‘Yartzagunbu’ is a regular routine for the local Tibetans in the region. However, it is also worrying…
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Representative Pelosi & McGovern Calls on China to Let Dalai Lama Go Home
US Representatives Nancy Pelosi and James McGovern in a collaborated opinion piece published in the Boston Globe news portal, the long time Tibet supporters from United States have called upon the Chinese leaders to let the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama back to his home, Tibet.
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama Arrives in Nubra Valley
The Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Thursday morning arrived in the Nubra Valley by a plane. His Holiness was received by a warm welcome from the leaders of all the sections of the community in the valley at the Thoise airport and later presented a welcome ceremony at the Disket Monastery.
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Kalmykia Buddhists Demand Russia to Issue Visa for Dalai Lama Visit
Kalmykia, a Russian Republic has called on the Russian government in Moscow to provide to the Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama to visit the republic. Kalmykia Buddhists are fighting against a tough stand taken by Moscow as the spiritual leader has not been issued the visa for a visit to the region…
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Chinese Police Brutally Assaults Tibetan Villagers
The local Chinese police have launched a violent tear-gas assault on Tibetan villagers in Qinghai’s Yulshul prefecture who were protesting over a mining project at their local mountains. The violent suppression of local Tibetan villagers last week led to the end of two month long protest against the suspected Chinese mining operations.
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Mipham Rinpoche Steps Down as Shambala Head Over Sexual Assault Claims
Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, leader of one of the largest Tibetan Buddhist Organizations in the West, Shambala Internation with over 200 centers across 30 countries has stepped down from the administrative and teaching responsibilities after allegations of sexual misconduct against him. The statement informed that the religious is going into a period of ‘self-reflection’.