Category Archives: News

• Coronavirus: Sikyong aspirant Kaydor Aukatsang tests positive 5 December 2020 | Tibet Sun Newsroom 7 comments

  One of the aspirants for the position of Sikyong, or Tibetan political leader, Kelsang Dorjee Aukatsang (aka Kaydor Aukatsang), has tested positive for Coronavirus, and is self-quarantining in Delhi. ...

• Coronavirus claims 1.5 million lives globally with 10,000 dying each day 4 December 2020 | Shaina Ahluwalia and Sangameswaran S no comments

  Over 1.5 million people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 with one death reported every nine seconds on a weekly average, as vaccinations are set to begin in December in a handful of developed nations. ...

• UN and world leaders meet to forge path to end pandemic 3 December 2020 | Edith M Lederer no comments

  The UN General Assembly president opened the world body’s first special session on COVID-19 Thursday, calling it a historic and overdue moment of reckoning to forge a path to end the pandemic. ...

• Hong Kong activists Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow, Ivan Lam jailed 2 December 2020 | Zen Soo one comment

  Three prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activists were sentenced to jail Wednesday for a protest outside police headquarters as authorities stepped up a crackdown on opposition to tighten control by Beijing over the territory. ...

• In world first, UK approves Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine 2 December 2020 | Guy Faulconbridge and Paul Sandle no comments

  Britain approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, jumping ahead of the rest of the world in the race to begin the most crucial mass inoculation programme in history with a shot tested in wide-scale clinical trials. ...

• China’s #MeToo movement gets its moment in court 2 December 2020 no comments

  A sexual harassment case against a powerful Chinese media figure began in Beijing on Wednesday, with his accuser calling it a major moment in the country's still-young #MeToo movement. ...

• India plans dam on Brahmaputra to offset Chinese construction upstream 1 December 2020 | Neha Arora and Devjyot Ghoshal no comments

  India is considering a plan to build a 10 gigawatts (GW) hydropower project in a remote eastern state, an Indian official said on Tuesday, following reports that China could construct dams on a section of the Brahmaputra river. ...

• China eyes 60 GW of hydropower on Tibet’s Brahmaputra river 1 December 2020 | Reuters Staff no comments

  China could build up to 60 gigawatts of hydropower capacity on a section of the Brahmaputra river, known as the Yarlung Tsangbo, which flows from Tibet into India and Bangladesh, Chinese state media reported on Monday. ...

• Chinese scientists claim Coronavirus originated in India 30 November 2020 | Times Now Digital one comment

  Chinese researchers have now claimed that Wuhan virus originated in India with a Chinese study hinting that the human-to-human transmission may have started in India months before the outbreak in Wuhan. ...

• First and original Miss Tibet crown has a new owner 28 November 2020 | Tibet Sun Newsroom 2 comments

  The first and the original crown of the Miss Tibet Pageant has a new owner in Karma Kunsang of Snow Region Enterprises in Majnu ka Tilla. ...