VIRGINIA: May 14, 2015. The 11 days of Diplomatic Training for the Representative and the Staff of the Offices of Tibet concluded today in Virginia, US. In her concluding remarks, Kalon Dicki Chhoyang said that the participants had an in-depth insight from different experienced resource persons, and that will certainly …
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2014 Essay contest to honor His Holiness the Dalai Lama The Office of Tibet, Washington, DC is pleased to announce an essay contest to mark 2014 as a Year of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay in his March 10th statement announced that the Central Tibetan Administration …
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July 14th, 2014 Posted in Tibet in Exile By Gavin Kilty* Having never been to Tibet before, I had built up a multitude of impressions of what it would be like. Some of those impressions were reinforced during my visit this summer while others were challenged by the actual …
Read More »The Economist (Print Edition) June 21, 2014 http://www.economist.com/news/china/21604594-communist-party-deepens-tibets-integration-rest-country-taming-west WHEN it opened eight years ago, the railway from Golmud to Lhasa was one of the most ambitious rail ventures ever attempted. At a cost of $4 billion, tracks were built across 550km (340 miles) of permafrost, reaching an altitude of …
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By Thubten Samphel (Director of the Tibetan Policy Institute based in Dharamsala, India) June 20, 2014 What’s happening to our man in Beijing? Zhu Weiqun is on the warpath again. His ramblings on the Middle-Way Policy are getting even more frenzied by the day. Whenever he is in the …
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DHARAMSHALA: Golog Jigme, a Tibetan political prisoner and social worker, who recently escaped to India from Tibet, spoke about the horrific details of physical torture and mental trauma that Tibetan political prisoners are put through by Chinese officials. He also urged the Chinese government for the timely release of …
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