WEEKLY TIBET NEWS DIGEST (27th April-3rd May 2020)
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May 4, 2020 |
May 4, 2020, Issue 27
Weekly Tibet News Digest is a collection of different articles, columns and Tibet related news in and outside Tibet published in various websites. The views expressed are of the authors and do not necessarily reflect endorsement by the Bureau of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, New Delhi.
TIBET TODAY
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama: World Should Unite for a Coordinated Global Response to COVID-19
- Troubling ‘ethnic unity’ regulations take effect in Tibet May 1
- China Inflicts Ever Tighter Information Controls Over Tibet, Long Off-Limits to Foreign Press
- Ngaba highlights erosion of Tibetan language instruction
- Lhasa’s Historic Barkhor District Opens, But Monasteries Remain Closed
NEWS ON TIBET
- US commission says Congress should pass Tibet support bill
- Mayor of Milton Keynes in England reaffirms support for Tibet on 7th Tibetan flag raising year
- Rep. McGovern calls on China to release the Panchen Lama amid high risk Covid-19 concerns in prisons
- Belgium concerned about human rights situation in Tibet and the enforced disappearance of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima: Belgian Foreign Minister
- CTA President congratulates Dr Michael van Walt on Royal Knighthood Honour
CTA INITIATIVES & TIBETAN CONTRIBUTION TO COVID-19
- Sikyong calls for additional 30 days lockdown for Tibetans till 5 June, full moon of Sakadawa
- Dimarpur Tibetans contribute towards Chief Minister COVID-19 Relief Fund
- Rumtek Tsurphu Labrang pledges 3 lakh towards CM Relief fund
- Delar settlement office distributes dry rations to destitute Tibetans
- TWA Rewalsar distributes ration supplies worth 1 Lakh to daily wagers
- Miao Choephelling Settlement distributes dry rations worth 2 lakh to local villages
- Tibetans in Dalhousie donate rations worth of 1 lakh to local Indian poor
- Sherig Parkhang Trust contributes 5 lakh rupees to India’s Covid-19 relief funds
- Lugsam Nyamdrel sponsors medical kits for COVID-19 relief efforts in Bylakuppe
- Paonta Cholsum Tibetan Settlement donates rations to local sanitation workers and police force
- Tibetan monasteries in Gangtok commit over Rs 7.8 lakh to coronavirus relief efforts in Sikkim
- Tibetans in Gangtok contribute Rs 7.8 lakh to Sikkim Chief Minister’s Relief Fund
FEATURE & ARTICLES
- Are China’s elderly leaders somehow immune to Covid-19?by Tenzin Tsultrim, tibetpolicy.net
- China must not shape the future of human rights at the UN
- Coronavirus pandemic; a Chinese Trojan horse to global hegemony by Tsewang Gyalpo Arya, tibet.net
- The Chinese Health Organization?by Brahma Chellaney, Project Syndicate
- China’s Global Times article false, incorrect and misleading – a rebuttalby T.G. Arya