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Tibet was represented at "Hinwil meets Hinwil"
Every three years there shall be a multi-cultural festival with 14 different nations in Hinwil. Among this year was also specially introduced for the first time Tibet.
26th Meeting of Task Force on Sino-Tibetan Negotiations Begins
DHARAMSHALA: Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay is presiding over a three-day meeting of Task Force on Sino-Tibetan Negotiations from 5 – 7 September in Dharamsala, with deliberation on and review of overall prevailing situation in Tibet and prospects of dialogue process among the core agenda.
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Statement of the Kashag on the 53rd anniversary of Tibetan Democracy Day
Today on the occasion of 53rd anniversary of Tibetan Democracy Day, the Kashag, on behalf of the people of Tibet, offer our heartful reverence and gratitude to His Holiness the Great Fourteenth Dalai Lama and extend warm greetings to all fellow Tibetans, both inside Tibet as well as outside.
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Breaking: 18-year-old Tibetan monk sets self on fire, Toll reaches 120
DHARAMSHALA, July 20: The wave of self-immolations inside Tibet continues to rage on with reports of yet another fiery protest in the Zoege region of eastern Tibet earlier today.
Read more … Breaking: 18-year-old Tibetan monk sets self on fire, Toll reaches 120
‘Anything But Humane’: Tibetan Exposes China from the Inside
The files, stored on three CDs, are potentially devastating to the Chinese government. They contain the reckoning of a Tibetan who once believed in the goals of the Chinese Communist Party and carved out a career within the Beijing bureaucracy. To protect his anonymity, the official, who is known nationwide, met secretly with SPIEGEL at a restaurant in a Chinese provincial city. He hopes that what he has written about the oppression of his people will be published as a book in the West, thereby exerting pressure on the leaders in Beijing.
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Tibetan musician releases music video honoring self-immolations
A Tibetan singer from the Chinese province of Sichuan has released a song and musical video titled “Patriotic Martyrs” in tribute to Tibetan self-immolations, of which there have been 119 since 2009. The immolations, an increasingly severe problem for Beijing, are a form of political protest against China’s rule over Tibet and its restrictions on political and religious freedoms there.
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Swiss Parliament Speaker meets Tibetan Speaker in Zurich
Zurich – 16 July: Ms. Maya Graf, the Speaker of the Swiss Parliament, met with Mr. Penpa Tsering, the Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile based in Dharamsala in Zurich yesterday.
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