WEEKLY TIBET NEWS DIGEST (10TH TO 16TH JANUARY 2022)
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January 17, 2022 |
Tibet This Week (TTW) is a weekly news collection of articles and Tibet related news on His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Current situations inside Tibet, Tibetans in Exile, Worldwide Tibetan Movement and others published in various websites.
TIBET TODAY
- Two Tibetan monks held incommunicado for five months; Chinese government’s poultry and pig farming projects in Drakgo
- Around a dozen Tibetans arbitrarily detained and tortured, second Buddha statue dismantled in Drakgo crackdown
- Statue of revered Tibetan monk seized by Chinese police
- TIBETAN GRADUATE STUDENT DETAINED FOR EXPRESSING CONCERNS ABOUT TIBETAN LANGUAGE
TIBETANS IN EXILE
- Taskforce members alerted the Tibetans amidst Covid surge in the community
- ICT Europe Director Wangpo Tethong Calls on Office of Tibet, Brussels
- Geshe Lobsang Dhondup attends Interfaith Prayer Meeting at Limpopo, South Africa
- Australian Tibetan Community Association convenes 6th board meeting
WORLDWIDE TIBETAN MOVEMENT
- Parliamentarians Dhondup Tashi and Gyaldhong Phurpa Dorjee meet Arunachal Pradesh’s CM, Speaker, and other Dignitaries
- US Special Coordinator of Tibetan Issues Uzra Zeya Calls for Direct Sino-Tibetan Dialogue Without Preconditions
- Representative Namgyal Choedup meets Anjali Kaur, USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Asia
- Swiss-Tibetan Friendship Association and Tibet Bureau Geneva Meet to Chart Work Plans for Tibet
- “Tumhara Naam Kya Hai – Tibbat” a book on Tibet by Shri Chandra Bhushan
COMMENTARIES & ARTICLES
- Xi Jinping replicating Mao’s Cultural Revolution in Tibet by Tsewang Gyalpo Arya
- Tearing Down the Buddha: How Xi Jinping is Destroying Traditional Buddhism in Tibet by Tsering Dolma, Global Order
- Environmental Impacts of Tso-ngon – Lhasa Railway (Ch: Qinghai-Tibet Railway) in Tibet by Tenzin Youdon, Tibet Policy Institute
- The China hand, Indian Express Editorial
CONDOLENCE MESSAGE
- Obituary: CTA Mourns the Demise of Gyaltsen Choden, a Former Ganden Phodrang and CTA Civil Servant
- Sikyong Penpa Tsering condoles the demise of EU Parliament President David Sassoli
- Speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel Condoles the Demise of EU Parliament President David Sassoli