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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 …

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 …

The 11th North American Tibetan Associations conference concluded successfully on February 27th. The two-day conference took place at the Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel in Flushing, NY, on Saturday, February 26th and Sunday, February 27. The conference organized by the Office of Tibet was attended by the delegates from 25 Tibetan …

Berlin, 17 Feb: The Tibetan people have to manage themselves without His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s patronage said Kalon Tripa Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche today during a round table discussion with journalist in Berlin. “Better to face the reality now. Tibetans will have to face it sooner or later,” he said. …