Tibetans worldwide voted on Sunday 11 April to elect a Sikyong of Central Tibetan Administration and members of the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile. Polling was carried out at 85 different places around the world. Final election results for Sikyong Final election results for Amdo Final election results for Kham Final election results for U-Tsang Final election results for Bon Final election results for Gelug Final election results for Kagyu Final election results for Nyingma Final election results for Sakya Final election results for Australasia Final election results for Eur ..read more

The Tibet Initiative Deutschland has started an online petition asking the Allianz Group (insurance company) to withdraw as a sponsor of the winter Olympics 2022 in China, saying that that the human rights situation in China has gone from bad to worse. The winter Olympic games are to take place in Beijing in February 2022, and the Allianz Group is supporting the Games as a sponsor and insurance provider under the slogan “Behind You For What’s Ahead.” In an online petition on Change.org, the group has said that the human rights situation in Tibet has deteriorated greatly. Tibetans living in Ger ..read more

The political leader of the Tibetans-in-exile Sikyong Penpa Tsering hoisted the Indian flag as the national anthem was played at the Tibetan Secretariat (Kashag) courtyard, with top officials of the exile administration in attendance. “I congratulate the people and the government of India on the 75th Indian independence day. India fought for more than 200 years against the British colonial rule,” Tsering said. India attained independence on 15 August 1947 following a long independence movement noted for largely non-violent resistance and civil disobedience. Independence coincided with the part ..read more

At least 29 people were killed when a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Saturday, just days before a tropical storm is expected to make landfall, and Prime Minister Ariel Henry said he was mobilizing all available government resources to help victims in the affected areas. The epicenter of the quake was about 125 kilometres (78 miles) west of the capital of Port-au-Prince, the US Geological Survey said, and widespread damage was reported. Jerry Chandler, Haiti’s director of civil protection, told the AP that the death toll stood at 29 and that teams will be sent to the area for search a ..read more

Let me clarify at the outset that this is a hit piece on Jamyang Norbu, and a particularly underhanded one at that, because I write under a pseudonym. But since he is the ideological lodestone of the Rangzen camp, Norbu felt like the right target for challenging their intellectual legitimacy. Weekend marches and sloganeering may be great for letting off some workaday stress while gathering plaudits for being a freedom fighter, but I’m perturbed by the recent uptick in misappropriation of the Rangzen flag as a cover for anti-Gadhen Phodrang manoeuvres. When pitted against contemporary opinionat ..read more

Flooding in central China continued to cause havoc in both cities and rural areas, with authorities saying Friday that another 21 people had been killed and another four were missing. Floodwaters rose to 3.5 metres (11.4 feet) in Hubei province’s Liulin township following heavy rains that began Wednesday. The latest deaths add to the more than 300 people killed in flooding last month in Henan province just to the north. The vast majority of those victims were in Zhengzhou, Henan’s provincial capital, where at least 292 died, including 14 who were trapped when the city’s subway system was inund ..read more

Officers from the US and Taiwanese coast guards have met to discuss improving cooperation and communication despite efforts by China to isolate the self-governing island democracy. The virtual meeting held Tuesday came amid moves by the US and others to defy Beijing’s pressure campaign aimed at compelling Taiwan to accept its view that the island is part of China. China on Tuesday recalled its ambassador to Lithuania and expelled the Baltic nation’s top representative to Beijing over its decision to allow Taiwan to open an office in Lithuania under its own name. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has i ..read more

Ten people were killed, 13 rescued and several others feared buried under debris after a landslide trapped a bus and other vehicles in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district on Wednesday, officials said. A video clip captured the horror of the moment. First, shooting stones fell down the mountainside into the river below, creating small splashes of water. Warming whistles were heard and then a big chunk of the mountain collapsed on National Highway 5 and into the river. Fighting to complete the operation before nightfall, rescue workers struggled to pull out survivors and bodies from the debris n ..read more

India sent a military plane to northern Afghanistan on Tuesday to pull out its citizens, officials said, as fighting raged between Afghan security forces and the advancing Taliban. The Indian government shut its consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, the biggest city in the north, and urged its diplomats and Indian citizens to take the special flight home. Islamist Taliban fighters have overrun six provincial capitals in recent days in the north, west and south of Afghanistan. India, which has invested millions of dollars in development projects across Afghanistan, has now closed all its consulates, lea ..read more

Dear Lobsang Wangyal la, Tashi Deleck and warm greetings! I am so saddened and disappointed to see your announcement about the winding up of our much cherished media Tibet Sun which you as a great innovator built some 13 years ago. If it shuts as you have announced, this will be a big loss to our entire struggle and cause. Because, today Tibet Sun is not just about LW as an individual. It is, rather, about the entire Tibetan Cause and its struggle. The burn of loss from shutting it down has to be felt by each and every Tibetan, especially the reading audience. I see your Media as one such rare ..read more