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The Straits Times (8 July 2025)

The United States has restored US$6.8 million (S$8.68 million) in funding for Tibetans in South Asia, the US State Department told Reuters on July 8, confirming comments by Tibet’s government-in-exile.

The aid had been cut by the Trump administration as part of its “America First” policy that hit a number of programmes, including those aimed at securing food and preventing the spread of HIV in some of the world’s poorest regions.

Last week, the leader of the Tibetan government in-exile in India, Mr Penpa Tsering, said Tibetans became “collateral damage” in US foreign aid cuts, and the funding had since been restored.

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