Staff Reporter January 12, 2022 L-R: Theodora B Dell, Representative Namgyal Choedup, Anjali Kaur, Megan, Joel Taylor, Jennifer Lowry and Secretary Tashi Dhondup Washington DC: Representative Namgyal Choedup and Secretary Tashi Dhondup met Anjali Kaur, USAID’s Deputy Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Asia; Theodora B Dell, USAID Director for …

Staff Reporter January 11, 2022 The 99-foot-tall Buddha statue in Kham Drakgo before its demolition. Photo: Tibet.net by T.G. Arya* Only a few days have left for the 2022 Winter Olympics to start. However, the world seems not ready for the games, more so China itself. The CCP leadership, instead of …

Staff Reporter January 7, 2022 Dharamshala: The US State Department sent a letter to Senator Patrick Leahy acknowledging the letter from a group of bipartisan Congressmen to Under Secretary Uzra Zeya dating December 14 of the last year on her expected appointment as Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues. A letter …

Staff Reporter January 6, 2022 His Holiness the Dalai Lama (file photo) dalailama.com Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India – Following the recent joint pledge signed by the five recognised nuclear-weapon states affirming that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has …

Staff Reporter January 6, 2022   Aftab Karma Purewal, new Mayor of Cincinnati. Dharamshala: As Aftab Karma Purewal, an American of Tibetan-Indian descent, was sworn in as the new Mayor of Cincinnati on Tuesday, 4 January, Tibetans from Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio presented the new Mayor with a letter of …

Staff Reporter January 3, 2022 Dharamshala: The Department of Religion and Culture, CTA issued the following announcement from Ganden Phodrang for Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and Tibetans around the world to observe the prescribed prayers for a speedy resolution to the crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic and now the gradual …