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...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, July 24: Senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Wang Huning has called for the full implementation of China’s newly enacted “Ethnic Unity and Progress Law” during a four-day inspection tour of Tibet, while also urging local...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, July 23: Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Zhang Maoming has expressed concern over the upcoming 17th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies (IATS), a leading international academic conference scheduled to take place in Kathmandu from...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, July 23: Chinese authorities have reportedly imposed sweeping security measures in the Lower Zako region along the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Ganzi (Kardze) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Kham, the hometown of late Tibetan independence activist Lobga Rangzen,...