As the United States suspended its USAID programmes across the world, severely hitting exile Tibetan projects and programmes as well, Tenzin Norsang* discusses the need and ways for the Tibetan community to transition from dependency on foreign aid to...

(TibetanReview.net, Jun04’25) – As lawmakers from 29 countries gathered in Japan’s capital Tokyo to discuss and highlighting the issue of Tibet with a view to help achieve a resolution of the decades-long China-Tibet conflict through negotiated settlement, Beijing has...

(TibetanReview.net, Jun04’25) – The Chinese women’s national soccer team has failed to keep out a handful of “free Tibet” protesters and also lost the match in a friendly international match in the US state of Minnesota on May 31....

(TibetanReview.net, Jun03’25) – A landslide in Chamdo (Chinese: Qamdo)  City of Tibet (Autonomous Region) has left at least three people dead, two others injured and seven more missing, reported China’s official Xinhua news agency and others Jun 2. Also,...

OPINION Palden Sonam* expresses outrage at the suspicious circumstance in which Tulku Rigzin Hungkar Dorje, a victim of China’s campaign to assimilate Tibet and transnational repression, died in Vietnam on March 28, and calls the outrageous manner in which...

(TibetanReview.net, Jun01’25) – Having stopped sharing with downstream India vital hydrological data on transboundary rivers like the Brahmaputra since 2022, China has now hinted at weaponizing the Brahmaputra’s waters in support of its “all-weather friend” Pakistan, reported businesstoday.in May...

(TibetanReview.net, Jun01’25) – Swadeshi Jagaran Manch (SJM), the economic wing of the RSS, a Hindu religion-based nationalist volunteer organization with 5-6 million members spread across India, has on May 30 expressed disappointment that despite a call for boycott of...

(TibetanReview.net, May30’25) – China continued to tightly restrict or altogether deny access to Tibet in 2024 to all categories of prospective visitors, but especially diplomats and other officials as well as journalists and Tibetans living abroad, said the US...

(TibetanReview.net, May29’25) – As two of the world’s top weather agencies forecast several years of even more record-breaking heat that pushes Earth to more deadly, fiery and uncomfortable extremes, Chinese scientists have found that the Tibetan Plateau plays a...

(TibetanReview.net, May29’25) – A coalition of 145 global Tibet-related organisations have called on the organizers of the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (KIMFF) to cancel “Xizang Panorama” immediately, saying it is China’s “propaganda”. Nepal has long cracked down on...

(TibetanReview.net, May28’25) – This year’s Gyalyum Chenmo Memorial Gold Cup (GCMGC) football tournament, the exile Tibetans’ top sporting event, will be dedicated to the 90th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and will feature 16 teams. Also, for...

(TibetanReview.net, May28’25) – The European Union (EU) hopes to convince China that forced assimilation is not the best solution to integrating its so-called ethnic minority regions by showcasing its own experience in the Tyrol region, according to the scmp.com...

(TibetanReview.net, May27’25) – The most vulnerable nations on Earth are facing a “tidal wave” of debt repayments from this year as a Chinese lending boom starts to be called in, reported theguardian.com May 27, citing a new report published...

(TibetanReview.net, May26’25) – Following its armed invasion and illegal annexation of Tibet in the middle of the last century, China is now India’s “primary adversary” and its defence priorities focus on countering the threats posed by this new neighbour....

(TibetanReview.net, May25’25) – As hopes rise for the revival of border trade between India and Tibet through Shipki La in Kinnaur district, of Himachal Pradesh state and residents have urged the local authorities to take up the issue with...

(TibetanReview.net, May24’25) – China appears to be preparing to make a big deal of celebrating the 60th anniversary of its establishment of Tibet Autonomous Region, following its annexation of the Himalayan Buddhist country in 1951. Apart from everything else, a...

(TibetanReview.net, May23’25) – As Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, nears his 90th birthday, with the possibility of making an announcement on the issue of his reincarnation, which China plans to derail, the government of Scotland has added...

(TibetanReview.net, May23’25) – As India’s Operation Sindoor continues, with a ceasefire declared after four days of military operations, China has taken further steps to align itself militarily with Pakistan even as it claims to stand for a peaceful settlement...

(TibetanReview.net, May22’25) – China’s plan – in agreement with New Delhi – to open western Tibet’s Purang county of Ngari Prefecture for pilgrimage to Mt Kailash and Lake Mansarovar has moved forward with a total of 750 pilgrims being...

Dr A B Sai Prasad* discusses the role played by Professor Pokala Lakshmi Narasu, ‘an uncompromising opponent of Religion’, in popularizing Buddhism in the 19th century, the mantle currently borne by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. “In history textbooks,”...

(TibetanReview.net, May19’25) – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has on May 18 demanded the immediate release of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama of Tibet, abducted by Chinese authorities 30 years ago at the age of six,...

(TibetanReview.net, May18’25) – Tibetans staged protests while political leaders, especially lawmakers, from several countries joined them in calling on China to free the 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, Tibet’s second most prominent religious figure, as it continues its silence...

(TibetanReview.net, May17’25) – As they marked the culmination of the 49-day rituals on the death of Tulku Hungkar Dorje, Tibetans remain determined to find out about the sequence of events which led to the highly respected lama’s escape from...

(TibetanReview.net, May17’25) – To the rest of the world the highest peak in the world is Mt Everest. To Nepal, on whose northern border its southern part rises, it is Sagarmatha. And to Tibet, on whose southern border its...

(TibetanReview.net, May16’25) – Police in Tibet’s capital Lhasa, known for tight security, have handed administrative penalties on dozens of people involved in a rare brawl in front of a pub on May 7 early morning, reported the scmp.com May...

(TibetanReview.net, May16’25) – In a twist of fate, China has condemned alleged attempts by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities to push “de-Sinicization” and sever the historical and cultural ties between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. However,...

(TibetanReview.net, May15’25) – Human Rights Watch has on May 15 reiterated its call on China to release the 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima and his parents, ahead of the completion of 30 years since it abducted them on...

(TibetanReview.net, May15’25) – China has on May 14 doubled down on its latest renaming of places in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, insisting that the territory belongs to it on account of its claim over Tibet. Zangnan is...

(TibetanReview.net, May14’25) – To again reassert its point of Tibet being part of it since ancient times, China has, for the fifth time since 2017, brought out a new list of its own names for more places in the...

(TibetanReview.net, May14’25) – India has on May 14 blocked China’s nationalist mouthpieces Global Times and state news agency Xinhua on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) for spreading fake news on its Operation Sindoor military reprisal action against...