Dharamshala, India — In a public statement, His Holiness the Dalai Lama called on people around the world to unite in the fight against coronavirus outbreak — making one of the deadliest battles in human history. "We need to reach out to each other with compassion".
His Holiness the Dalai Lama congratulates President Moon on election victory
Dharamshala, India — His Holiness the Dalai Lama has written on Thursday to His Excellency Moon Jae-in, the President of the Republic of Korea, to congratulate him on his Party's success in the recent parliamentary elections.
Belgian Federal MP Cogolati calls for the unconditional release of Panchen Lama
Brussels — As a long-term Tibet supporter, Samuel Cogolati, Member of the Belgian Federal Parliament expressed strong support for the release of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama extends support to Indian govt efforts to combat coronavirus
Dharamshala, India — The spiritual leader of Tibet, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has made a donation from his trust to the PM CARES Fund, created to enable people to contribute to the government’s containment and relief measures against the COVID-19 outbreak.
China has responded to Coronavirus with deadly brutality: Media freedom watchdog
Paris — Three months after the first reports of coronavirus cases were posted on Chinese social media and began circulating within civil society, the Paris based "Reporters Without Borders" (RSF) said it "looks back at the way the Chinese state, in its obsession with complete control over information, has cracked down relentlessly on all independent information outlets."
“If the Chinese press were free, the coronavirus might not be a pandemic”: Media watchdog
Paris — Reporters Without Borders (RSF) shows that, without the control and censorship imposed by the authorities, the Chinese media would have informed the public much earlier of the severity of the coronavirus epidemic, sparing thousands of lives and perhaps avoiding the current pandemic.
Tibetan National Uprising Anniversary in London: "Stop the killing in Tibet."
London — Over a hundred Tibetans and Tibet supporters marched through the streets of central London yesterday to mark 61 years since the 1959 uprising and protest Beijing’s ongoing occupation of Tibet.