His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama may decide on a spiritual successor during 90th birthday events in July: Sikyong Penpa Tsering https://t.co/MsUBCTIGRQ
I still can’t understand President Trump’s actions. Is it really as rumored that he is seeking revenge on his political opponents Biden and Nancy Pelosi?But this has really seriously affected the development of Tibet's freedom cause.
𝐑𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐀𝐬𝐢𝐚 (𝐑𝐅𝐀)
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐘 𝐎𝐅 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐃𝐎𝐌 𝐈𝐍 𝐀 𝐂𝐀𝐆𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐓
Radio Free Asia (#RFA), a U.S. Congress-funded international broadcaster, announced this week a major reduction in its radio services following the abrupt termination of its federal funding. The move has forced RFA to cease shortwave radio transmissions for its #Mandarin, #Tibetan, and #Lao language services entirely, while broadcasts for #Burmese, #Khmer, #Korean, and #Uyghur have been significantly scaled back.
The cuts stem from the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) ending RFA’s federal grant on March 15. RFA has since furloughed most of its staff and is pursuing legal action, claiming that the funding cut violates federal law.
Monitoring data confirms that transmissions via shortwave and mediumwave relay stations — which were either owned or leased by #USAGM — have stopped within the last week. This brings RFA's total broadcast hours from 63 per week in March down to just seven. The data is based on recordings from USAGM’s Remote Monitoring System, which tracks broadcast activity worldwide.
Though the broadcaster has lost the majority of its radio transmission capability, it continues to publish limited news content online and through social media in all nine languages it serves.
RFA, founded in 1996, was created to provide independent news to parts of Asia with limited or no press freedom, including China, North Korea, Vietnam, and Myanmar. The recent shutdown marks one of the most significant setbacks in the organization’s history.
The funding cut follows a broader push by the Trump administration to reduce government spending on U.S.-funded international media organizations, including Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
The future of RFA’s operations remains uncertain as its legal battle with USAGM continues.
#RadioFreeAsia #RFA #Tibet #Tibetan #China #NorthKorea #Veitnam #Myanmar #Uyghur #USA #USCongress #USAGM #VoiceOfAmerica #RFATibetan #RFAEurope #RadioLiberty #USFunds #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #DOGE #USAgency #FreedomOfSpeech #HumanRightsForAll
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We need to unite, we should unite, we must unite, to consolidate information, collect evidence, and tell all young Tibetans about our history, especially our struggle for Tibetan freedom in recent decades. @All Tibetans👊👊👊
Marking 66 years in exile, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama was awarded the Gold Mercury Award 2025 at his residence in Dharamshala for his outstanding leadership in peace, compassion, and environmental stewardship.🙏
The Dalai Lama Centre for Tibetan and Indian Ancient Wisdom to Host Inaugural All-India Conference in Bodhgaya, April 3-4, 2025 #real#viralvideo#dalailama#Buddhism
On the occasion of Chotrul Duechen (Day of Offerings, 15th day of the 1st Tibetan month), His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama gave a short general teaching from the Jataka Tales (Life Stories of the Buddha) at Thekchen Choeling Tsuglakhang in Dharamshala on 14 March 2025.
"Voice for the Voiceless" book by His Holiness the Dalai Lama is the one for the history. Final definitive and authoritative account of his dealings with the Chinese Communist authorities over more seven decades seeking mutually benefitial solution via nonviolence and dialogue.
Kasur Gyalo Thondup, a key figure in modern Tibetan history & elder brother of the Dalai Lama, passed away at 97 in Kalimpong, India.
His contributions to Tibet’s cause & global diplomacy will never be forgotten. 🙏🙏🙏
སྤྱི་ནོར་༧གོང་ས་སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་འདི་ཚེས་༢༢ཉིན་བཞུགས་སྒར་རྡ་རམ་ས་ལར་ཆིབས་བསྒྱུར་མཛད་ཀྱི་འདུག
H. H Dalai Lama will return to Dharamsala on February 22 after attending three monastic community Long Life Offering ceremonies in South India this month.
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