Tsering Passang*, the son of a Tibetan resistance veteran, writes from London on the recent recognition of former freedom fighters in Dharamsala, Britain’s historic ties with Tibet, and the duty of the diaspora and democratic nations to carry the...

(TibetanReview.net, May01’26) – In what is seen as a significant escalation in international opposition to Beijing’s policies of forced assimilation in Tibet and other “ethnic minority” regions of the People’s Republic of China, the European Parliament has on Apr...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr30’26) – A bill has been introduced in the US Senate on Apr 29, which if passed will requires the Secretary of State to make a formal determination on whether China is committing genocide or crimes against humanity...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr29’26) – China has begun on Apr 28 the construction of the Tibet section of an ultra-high-voltage power transmission that will transmit “clean energy” from the Chinese ruled Himalayan territory all the way to its southern coastal province...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr28’26) – A China-linked online influence campaign attempted to undermine elections for the Tibetan parliament-in-exile for which polling was held over the weekend (Apr 26) in some 27 countries, but was largely ineffective, reported therecord.media Apr 27, citing...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr27’26) – Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), the western half of Tibet proper, remains the only People’s Republic of China territory where access is banned for non-mainland Chinese foreign visitors, including especially diplomats, journalists, researchers, and others, unless they...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr26’26) – Just days ahead of the final poll for the election of the 18th Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE), the Election Commission of the Central Tibetan Administration has communicated a finding of serious irregularities in the conduct...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr25’26) – China, which has the world’s second largest defence budget and the largest navy in terms of number of war ships, and which is a key security threat to Japan has condemned the latter for scrapping its...

Reporting on a session of a conference devoted to the science and practice of end-of-life care under the auspices of the state-level Minnesota Network of Hospice & Palliative Care, “friends of Gyuto Wheel of Dharma Monastery”* writes that while...

OPINION If John Dewey, as the architect of progressive education, changed how the world understands education, Ama Jetsun Pema-la – through her decades of running the TCV schools under a holistic educational system which integrated academic learning, cultural preservation,...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr23’26) – China’s top Party leader responsible for minority and religious affairs has toured the historically Tibetan regions of Gansu and Sichuan provinces from Apr 18 to 22 to supervise the enforcement of the recently adopted, much-criticised law...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr22’26) – Eight human rights experts at the United Nations have on Apr 16 issued a joint communication, rasing serious concern on China’s recently adopted Law, ostensibly, on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress. They have questioned its legality...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr22’26) – Apart from discussing US investment in Nepal as the main agenda of his visit, US Assistant Secretary of State Samir Paul Kapur has also raised the plight of Tibetan refugees languishing in the country without any...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr21’26) – China is accused of ill-treating and then ignoring even urgently needed medical attention to Tibetan political prisoners while moving them to different prisons when their cases are raised internationally. Two such most recently reported cases are...

6 Levels of Remedial Measures OPINION Following Tenzin Norsang’s article titled “The Stick Must Stop: Ending Corporal Punishment in Our Tibetan Schools” (tibetanreview.net, Apr 11, 2026), Tenzing Rapgyal* explains how he has effectively dealt with errant students in a...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr19’26) – India and China held Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Bilateral Consultations in New Delhi over Apr 16-17 in what is seen as a thaw in their relations following their mid-2020 border clash in Ladakh. The two sides...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr18’26) – In China, the party is the state and the state the party. In order to drive this message home, the party-state has introduced new school textbooks even as existing teaching materials are already heavily saturated with...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr17’26) – Following China’s adoption last month of its law on so-called promoting ethnic unity and progress, mandating the predominance of Mandarin learning and use across the PRC, monks in Tibet are now required to take time off...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr17’26) – Russia, whose war of aggression against Ukraine is said to be sustained by China’s help, has caused the cancellation of a Buddhist festival in capital Moscow after it deported on Apr 8 a group of Tibetan...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr16’26) – China said Apr 15 that its Qinghai–Tibet Railway had transported more than a hundred million metric tons of goods in and out of Tibet autonomous region since its opening in 2006, with the growth in outbound...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr15’26) – China appears to be acting as if it is in danger of losing control over Nepal after the marginalisation of the country’s communist parties in the aftermath of the recent general election results. Despite assurances by...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr15’26) – As on the previous occasions, China has on Apr 14 defended its latest move, the sixth since 2017, to assign “standardised” Chinese names to places in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. It has also asserted...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr14’26) –Can the world’s largest dam be designed and built to withstand a catastrophic earthquake of the kind the Himalayan region is all too familiar with, including the one which struck the Mt Everest County of Dingri in...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr13’26) –For the sixth time since 2017, China has released a list of what it calls “standardized” names for places in Arunachal Pradesh to assert its territorial claim over the Indian state which New Delhi has dismissed as...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr12’26) –After intimidating Taiwan with a series of highly provocative war games over the stand of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on independence, China has on Apr 12 unveiled 10 new incentive measures for the democratically self-ruled...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr12’26) – A Bollywood film by super star Salman Khan which was previously titled as “Battle of Galwan”, and even partially shot in Ladakh, is now being reshot 40% to reflect India’s new sensitivity towards Beijing amid improving...

OPINION Tenzin Norsang* expresses dismay that despite an official policy against it, and a national philosophy of compassion, corporal punishment continues to be prevalent in exile Tibetan schools and urges administrators, teachers, parents, and everyone else concerned about it...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr10’26) – A Tibetan man, now in his late 50s, imprisoned for 18 years after leading a language rights protest in a historically Tibetan area of Sichuan province, China, in 2007 has emerged from jail last month in...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr10’26) – As its relations with Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) remains fraught over the latter’s perceived strengthening of push for independence, China has invited the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) leader Cheng Li-wun and made clear its desire...