Posts Tagged ‘tibetans’

Tibetan Plateau Denisovans Gave Modern Tibetans Altitude Superpowers

Little is known about our extinct archaic hominin cousins, the Denisovans, who populated Asia during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic, due to limited DNA fragments and evidence. This makes reconstructing their history is a major challenge and progress takes time as more evidence of their existence emerges. Now, a new study has found that our […]

Dozens of Uighurs, Tibetans protest the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics

Dozens of Uighur and Tibetan activists gather outside the Olympic Museum in Lausanne to protest against the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and to call for a boycott. More than 40 countries led by Canada voiced grave concerns at the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday about China’s actions in Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Tibet […]

Tibetans in northern India go to the polls to elect government-in-exile

Hundreds of Tibetans in exile have been voting to choose a new political leader. The election took place in India’s northern city of Dharamsala, which is home to Tibet’s government-in-exile. Voters wore masks as a COVID-19 precaution as they cast their ballots during the first round of the election. One of them was Lobsang Sangay, […]

Teen accused of plot to kill Biden is son of late ‘Oscar Schindler for Tibetans’

JTA — The 19-year-old man who allegedly plotted to kill Joe Biden was the son of a prominent Jewish attorney who helped broker the first meeting between a US president and the Dalai Lama. News broke Friday about the arrest in May of Alexander Hillel Treisman, a teenager who a court document says purchased an […]

California Lawmakers Raise Minimum Smoking Age from 18 to 21

Unless you’re in the military, Californians will need to be 21 tosmoke if bill becomes law.  If a bill passed by California legislators is signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown, Californians      would be required to be 21 years of age before smoking. The law would not apply to persons in […]

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