Dharamshala – The two friends and Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, joined a group of 250 faith leaders from around the world, signed an Interfaith Climate Statement, urging nations to sign on to the Paris climate agreement and called for scaling up ambition to combat climate change.

Dharamshala — China again ranked among the world's worst freedom of press offenders — joining Syria, North Korea and Eritrea — while Finland, Netherlands and Norway kept their place with the regions' most open media, Reporters Without Borders, a media watchdog report released Wednesday said.

Paris — The 2016 edition of the World Press Freedom Index, which Reporters Without Borders (RSF) will publish on 20 April, shows that there has been a deep and disturbing decline in respect for media freedom at both the global and regional levels.

Dharamshala — On the occasion of World Health Day 2015, Tibetan Health Kalon, Dr. Tsering Wangchuck, composed a message to Tibetans and others regarding the importance of food safety and strengthening food safety systems. The World Health Oranization coined the slogan "from farm to plate, make food safe," as the theme for this years World Health Day.

Dharamshala: - "China lags far behind the Western world in both scientific and creative achievement," Chang Ping, Chinese writer, journalist and columnist said, adding: "Why is this so? China's leaders fail to grasp the holistic nature of human thought and creativity."

Dharamshala: - The exiled Tibetan human rights organization based in Dharamshala on Wednesday, 13 August released a memoir of a former Tibetan political prisoner in Tibetan titled "Raising the Tibetan National Flag in Rebkong".