NEW YORK, MARCH 18TH: On Saturday March 12th, there was an unusual event at TA Vietnamese restaurant in San Jose, California. It was the first ever Vietnamese-Tibetan event, a special dinner and concert organised by Mrs. Bickieu Pham, a member of the Vietnamese community, with the support of the Office …

DHARAMSHALA, MARCH 17TH: A monk of Kirti monastery in Ngaba county in northeastern Tibet set himself on fire yesterday (16 March) in remembrance of those Tibetans killed in the Chinese government’s brutal crackdown in the region on that day in 2008, monks at Kirti monastery in Dharamsala said quoting eye-witnesses …

Geneva, 16 March: “As people (Tibetan nomads) are moved to urban areas, there is very little primary source of employment resulting in urban poverty,” said Prof. Andrew Fisher, a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague. He is a specialist on issues of population, poverty and …

March 14th 2011 To the members of the Fourteenth Assembly of the Tibetan People’s Deputies, It is common knowledge that ancient Tibet, consisting of three provinces (Cholkha-sum) was ruled by a line of forty-two Tibetan kings beginning with Nyatri Tsenpo (127 BCE), and ending with Tri Ralpachen (838 CE). Their …

New York, March 11, 2011—The 52nd anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day was marked with a series of events in Latin America. In Morelia, Mexico, the anniversary was marked with the screening of a series of films on Tibet from March 8th to 10th.  The films include Dreaming of …

By Tim Johnson | McClatchy Newspapers | March 9, 2011 March is typically a tense month for Tibetans under the yoke of their Chinese rulers. It marks the anniversary of the Dalai Lama’s 1959 flight into exile. Protests, like ones in 2008, typically erupt this month. If any unrest occurs …