{"id":2165,"date":"2025-10-21T06:52:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/network.rvrising.com\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2025-10-21T06:52:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:52:51","slug":"national-press-club-to-host-sikyong-penpa-tsering-for-a-headliners-newsmaker-on-oct-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rvrising.com\/news\/india\/national-press-club-to-host-sikyong-penpa-tsering-for-a-headliners-newsmaker-on-oct-29\/","title":{"rendered":"National Press Club to Host Sikyong Penpa Tsering for a Headliners Newsmaker on Oct. 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\">Oct. 20, 2025<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;\u00a0Sikyong Penpa Tsering, the democratically elected political leader of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile (formally known as the Central Tibetan Administration or CTA) will address the National Press Club at a Headliners Newsmaker event Oct. 29. Doors open at 9:30 a.m. with the program starting promptly at 10:00 a.m. <a href=\"https:\/\/edge.prnewswire.com\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4537253-1&amp;h=1365164979&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.press.org%2Fevents%2Fnpc-headliners-sikyong-penpa-tsering&amp;a=Register+to+attend+here.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>Register to attend here.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Penpa Tsering will speak about the global significance of Tibet and provide a detailed account of the human rights situation, the environmental importance of the region and its destruction by the CCP, and the latest political developments in the Sino-Tibet conflict as His Holiness the Dalai Lama turns 90 this year.<\/p>\n<p>China claims Tibet has been part of its territory for centuries but established direct administrative control after the 1959 invasion of Tibet, following the Communist Party&#8217;s victory in 1949. The Dalai Lama formed the CTA in 1959 after being exiled to India.<\/p>\n<p>To submit a question for the speaker, please email <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#f59d909491999c9b908786b58587908686db9a8792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"6b030e0a0f0702050e19182b1b190e18184504190c\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span><\/a> and put TIBET in the subject line. The deadline for submitting questions is close of business Oct. 28.<\/p>\n<p>This Headliners event is open to credentialed media and club members. Registration is essential.<\/p>\n<p>The National Press Club is located on the 13th Floor of the National Press Building at 529 14th St., NW, Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Press Contact: Cecily Scott Martin, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#bad7dfded3dbfacac8dfc9c994d5c8dd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"3a575f5e535b7a4a485f49491455485d\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span><\/a>, 202-662-7525<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE National Press Club<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>This release is auto-published via PR Newswire; our journal is not responsible for the content.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/national-press-club-to-host-sikyong-penpa-tsering-for-a-headliners-newsmaker-on-oct-29-302589415.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Oct. 20, 2025 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;\u00a0Sikyong Penpa Tsering, the democratically elected political leader of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile (formally<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,92],"tags":[626],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-pr-newswire","tag-national-press-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rvrising.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rvrising.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rvrising.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rvrising.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rvrising.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rvrising.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2193,"href":"https:\/\/www.rvrising.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/2193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rvrising.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rvrising.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rvrising.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rvrising.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}