Tenzin Nyidon DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 5: The Tibetan Supreme Justice Commission (TSJC), the apex judicial body of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), on Wednesday conducted the first hearing on Case No. 23, filed by plaintiff Tenzin Khedup against the Central...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 4: Nepal Police’s Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) on Monday arrested Joint Secretary Pushpa Raj Bhattarai of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in connection with a 17-year-old passport fraud case involving the alleged illegal issuance of...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 3: Druk Bum Gyal, the County chief of Drakkar county in Tsolho (Hainan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in eastern Tibet, has reportedly been stripped of his post after declining to immediately enforce Beijing’s sweeping campaign targeting...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 3: As Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to visit India next month for the BRICS Summit in New Delhi, Beijing has reportedly urged the Indian government to restrict media access for Tibetan exile and...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 2: Commemorating one month since the passing of Tibetan independence activist Lobga Rangzen, who self-immolated outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York on July 2, hundreds of Tibetans and supporters assembled in New York...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, July 31: A document circulating widely on social media, purportedly a confidential Chinese government directive ordering the surveillance of prominent Tibetans living overseas under China’s newly enacted so-called Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, is exhibiting...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, July 31: More than 60 Tibetans living in exile participated in a symbolic head-shaving protest outside the United Nations headquarters in New York on Thursday to honour late Tibetan independence activist Lobga Rangzen and renew calls...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, July 28: Twin earthquakes measuring 5.7 and 5.8 in magnitude struck Drakkar County in Tsolho (Ch. Hainan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Tibet’s Amdo region on Tuesday morning, triggering landslides and sending tremors across neighbouring areas. According...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, July 28: Chinese authorities have ordered monks and nuns whose residential quarters have been demolished at the renowned Larung Gar Buddhist Academy in Sertar County to leave the institute and return to their native monasteries, as...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, July 27: As its Global Chain Hunger Strike entered its ninth day on Monday, the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), the largest pro-independence Tibetan organisation in exile, announced a new international campaign to counter what it described...