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Jul 16, 2024 | 
rfa.org | Lobe Socktsang |Tenzin Dickyi |Dickey Kundol
The Chinese government has shut down a prominent vocational high school in a Tibetan-populated prefecture in Qinghai province, making it the latest in a slew of Tibetan private schools that have been forcibly closed in recent years. The Gangjong Sherig Norling school in Golog county, or Guoluo in Chinese, is in the historical Amdo region of Tibet.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
rfa.org | Lobe Socktsang |Tashi Wangchuk |Tenzin Dickyi
In a bid to help preserve Tibet’s language and culture, a nonprofit organization in northern India is transforming one of its facilities into a boarding school where children of Tibetans living overseas can go to live and study. The Dharamsala, India-based school being created by the Tibetan Children’s Villages, or TCV, is accepting applications for the academic year starting Aug. 1 for children entering grades four to eight.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
rfa.org | Lobe Socktsang |Tashi Wangchuk
Global leaders joined Tibetans across the world this week to mark the 35th birthday of a revered Tibetan religious leader taken into custody 29 years ago and missing ever since. Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, then just 6, was recognized by Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, as the 11th Panchen Lama, Tibet’s second most-senior Buddhist monk, in May 1995. Shortly after the Dalai Lama’s announcement, Chinese authorities abducted the new Panchen Lama, his family and his teacher.
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Aug 29, 2023 | 
rfa.org | Lobe Socktsang
China’s security chief emphasized the importance of national security and the need to confront separatist elements during a visit last week to central Gansu province in what some Tibetans see as an indication of a further clampdown on the ethnic minority.
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
rfa.org | Lobe Socktsang
Former Tibetan political prisoner Sonam Gyalpo, who spent 16 years in prison for his involvement in the Tibetan independence movement, died on Aug. 16 at the age of 68 at his home in Lhasa. Gyalpo’s official cause of death was not released, though individuals close to him believe that his death was the result of poor health brought on by his years of imprisonment.
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
rfa.org | Lobe Socktsang
Tashi Wangchuk, a prominent Tibetan language advocate and former political prisoner, was attacked by a group of unidentified men in eastern Tibet on the evening of Aug. 19, according to an account he gave to London-based rights group Free Tibet. Wangchuk was attacked while staying at a hotel in Darlak County after traveling to the region to raise awareness about the disappearance of the Tibetan language in schools, the report from Free Tibet said.
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Jul 5, 2023 | 
rfa.org | Lobe Socktsang
Periodically prostrating himself, a Tibetan Buddhist monk pulling a cart with food and bedding has completed a pilgrimage of more than 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) over eight months to Dharamsala, India. Kalsang Tenzin, 61, said he started the journey on Oct. 29, 2022, at Bodh Gaya, a village in the northwestern Indian state of Bihar where Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment beneath a Bodhi tree in the 6th century.
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May 18, 2023 | 
rfa.org | Lobe Socktsang
A search is underway for six workers who went missing after a lift cage fell at a Chinese-backed copper mine in Tibet during shaft construction of an open-pit mine drainage system project, forcing production to stop. The accident occurred May 14 at the Julong Copper and Polymetallic Mine site operated by Tibet Julong Copper Co. Ltd. in copper-rich Gyama township in Meldrogunkar county of Lhasa prefecture. China’s Zijin Mining Group Co. Ltd. owns a 50.1% stake in the subsidiary.
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Apr 19, 2023 | 
rfa.org | Yeshi Dawa |Lobe Socktsang
A four-member delegation from Australia’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for Tibet who met with the Dalai Lama on Tuesday offered support to preserve Tibet’s language and culture amid China’s efforts to restrict Tibet’s linguistic and cultural rights. MP Sharon Claydon, who also serves as deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, Sen. Janet Rice, MP Sophie Scamps and MP Susan Templeman arrived in Dharamsala, India, on Monday for a four-day visit.
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Mar 13, 2023 | 
rfa.org | Lobe Socktsang
A Tibetan writer arrested by Chinese police nearly three years ago has been confirmed serving four years in prison for “splittism and spreading rumors in internet chat groups,” according to Tibetans with knowledge of the situation. Zangkar Jamyang, now 45, disappeared on the night of June 4, 2020, when authorities in Kyungchu county of Ngaba, a Tibetan region in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, hauled him away without a trace.
