Tibetan Review
China reports completion of first large-scale hydropower station on main stream of Yarlung Tsangpo
(TibetanReview.net, Jun15’26) – China has formally completed on Jun 14 the first large-scale hydropower station on the main stream of the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet, following the conclusion of its final acceptance check. An acceptance check is the...
Independent Tibet campaigner who said ‘No’ to His Holiness is no more
OBITUARY (TibetanReview.net, Jun14’26) – Mr Lhasang Tsering, one of the best-known faces of the campaign for an independent Tibet, besides being a writer, poet, and journalist, including as a former editor of Tibetan Review, has passed away at the...
Tibetan Sikyong briefs German parliament’s top rights official, urges joint effort on China front at Uyghurs meet
(TibetanReview.net, Jun13’26) – The Sikyong (executive head) of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), based in Dharamshala, India, has met with the Chairman of Germany’s Parliamentary Group on Freedom of Religion or Belief and also taken part in the opening...
Indian Ambassador’s Tibet visit seen as uptick in Sino-India ties
(TibetanReview.net, Jun13’26) – India’s new ambassador to China has paid his first visit to Tibet in what is seen as the latest sign of thawing relations between the two Asian giants. The two countries became neighbours only since the...
Exile Tibetan leader says back channel contacts with China active, but nothing to write home about
(TibetanReview.net, Jun12’26) – Mr Penpa Tsering, the Sikyong (executive head) of the Central Tibetan Administration has reiterated Jun 11 that back channel contacts with the Chinese government continues to take place, but that the communications are “inconsequential right now”....
Dalai Lama discharged from hospital after successful knee replacement surgery
(TibetanReview.net, Jun12’26) – The Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals in New Delhi has confirmed Jun 12 that His Holiness the Dalai Lama underwent a successful left knee replacement surgery on Jun 8 and has been discharged this morning. “His Holiness is...
China rejects ‘Greater Tibet’ Middle Way, again warns India on Dalai Lama reincarnation
(TibetanReview.net, Jun12’26) – The Chinese embassy in New Delhi has on Jun 11 criticised the “Middle Way Approach” advocated by the exile Tibetan leadership as it postulates a Tibet that is around twice the size of China’s currently demarcated...
China training brainwashed Tibetan child soldiers?
(TibetanReview.net, Jun11’26) – A Tibet advocacy group in Washington, DC, has on Jun 10 called “deeply disturbing” a Chinese media report that show Tibetan kindergarten children dressed in camouflage uniforms marching under the Chinese flag and participating in simulated...
China claims to have discovered two childhood residences of the 6th Dalai Lama
(TibetanReview.net, Jun10’26) – China says it has discovered two buildings in Tsona (Chinese: Cona) County of Lhokha (Shannan) City in Tibet which had been the former residences of the sixth Dalai Lama Tsangyang Gyatso. However, China’s state news agency...
Free Tibet’s Classrooms: End Patriotic Drills, Restore Native Language Learning
OPINION As the future of Tibet’s cultural identity is increasingly being shaped not in monasteries or family homes, but inside classrooms where political indoctrination is steadily replacing native language education, Ashu Maan* points out that international human rights standards...














