Tibet news
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Upper TCV School Resumes Annual Spring Fete After Two Years
After a two-year hiatus, Upper TCV School hosted its Annual Spring Fete on April 16, 2022. Due to the outbreak of the Corona Virus in 2020, the school’s annual spring fete was postponed for two years. Most schools hold at least one fete each year to raise funds for the school. Lockdown was imposed on…
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Tibetan Language Advocate Barred Entry to Hotels by Chinese Authorities
Chinese authorities’ restrictions and monitoring of Tibet’s former political prisoners are nothing new. Authorities instructed hotel operators in Tibetan areas of western China to bar a Tibetan activist who was traveling to promote language rights, as per the RFA report. Tashi Wangchuk, a former political prisoner of roughly 35 years old, had been traveling around…
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Forced Sinicization in Tibet Compel Tibetan Parents to Study Mandarin
Tibetan Parents are now responsible for teaching their children Mandarin as part of the Chinese government’s campaign to promote Mandarin as the primary spoken and written language for Tibetans as per a report from tibetwatch.org. The parents are forced to attend workshops and classes. It also places a burden on parents to stay current with…
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25th Shoton Festival concludes
The Tibetan Shoton festival, which lasted a week, came to a close late on Wednesday night with a day-long opera performance on “Prince Norsang” on the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (TIPA) grounds. The festival’s concluding ceremony was attended by Speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel of the 17 Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, as well as Education Kalon Tharlam…
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Enes Freedom Felicitated at Geneva Summit for Raising China’s Human Rights Abuses
Enes Kanter Freedom, a Turkish-American professional basketball player, and outspoken human rights activist was awarded the 2022 Geneva summit Courage Award for his outstanding contribution to the defense of human rights, particularly regarding China’s brutal human rights abuses on minorities such as Tibetans. Enes had accepted the prize humbly on behalf of “all human rights…
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Popular Tibetan Musician’s Upcoming Concert in Australia
Tenzin Choegyal, a Tibetan-Australian performer, is heading to Merimbula to take listeners on a musical journey to Tibet, according to begadistrictnews. On Sunday, May 1, Mr. Choegyal will perform his concert ‘Be the Mountain’ at Twyford Hall in Merimbula.
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Tibetans Protest Outside Chinese Embassy in Paris
On Saturday, students from the ‘Students for a Free Tibet-France’ (SFT-France) group and five other Tibetan organizations protested outside the Chinese embassy in Paris against three self-immolations that occurred in their nation in March.
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A Former Top Chinese Official in Tibet Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison
Last month, a former top official in China’s Qinghai province was sentenced to 11 years in prison for accepting almost $3 million in bribes from mining and construction companies, corporations, and people while in office, as per RFA report. From 2009 to 2020, Wen Guodong was the vice governor of Qinghai Province. The report continued…
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Tenzin Tsundue Bravely Displays Tibetan Flag At Geneva Summit
Mr. Tenzin Tsundue, a well-known Tibetan freedom activist, announced on his official Facebook page on April 2nd that he will be on a speaking tour in Europe, beginning with the Geneva Summit on Human Rights on April 4-6, and continuing with events in Switzerland 7-10, Sweden 11-17, Norway 18-20, Denmark 20-22, Spain 23-25, and the…
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Tibetan Delegation Campaigns in Delhi After Chinese FM’s India Visit
This week, the Tibetan parliamentary delegation led by Dolma Tsering been meeting Indian MPs and political leaders, with a focus on interactions with lawmakers from the north-eastern states to discuss China’s “hydro-hegemony” by controlling the waters of cross-border rivers like the Brahmaputra. Since Monday, the delegation led by legislators Tenpa Yarphel, Khenpo Kada Ngedup Sonam,…