Recalling his experiences of listening clandestinely to the US government-funded radio broadcast services while living in Tibet and later working for it at great personal cost after arriving in exile, Gyaltsen Choedrak* argues that while China is spending many...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr18’25) – The executive head, the Sikyong Mr Penpa Tsering of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) has on Apr 17 made a courtesy call on Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu of Himachal Pradesh in the state Secretariat...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr17’25) – China is greatly strengthening the digital offensive capability of its police force in Tibet, with a state-owned digital forensics firm providing an offensive cyber operations training environment and digital forensic laboratory to the Tibet Police College...

When lost in a crisis self-confidence and identity, Menda Rewa* finds that there is no alternative to sticking to one’s Tibetan root. In India, she carried seven thick textbooks that were written entirely in Tibetan and a pencil case...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr17’25) – As Tibetan Buddhists, government leaders, parliaments, human rights groups, and religious organizations in numerous countries expressed their opposition to China’s move to hijack the Dalai Lama reincarnation recognition process, atheist Beijing has turned to foreign Buddhists...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr16’25) – China has launched a crackdown on Lung-ngon Monastery and surrounding Tibetan villages in Gade (Chinese: Gande) County of Golok (Guoluo) prefecture, Qinghai Province, even as it remains tight-lipped about the circumstance of the death of its...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr16’25) – Despite strong criticisms from the Chinese embassy, the Dutch House of Representatives has passed a resolution on three motions on Tibet on Apr 15, which the exile Tibetan administration has called a significant development after a...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr15’25) – Humans had moved to Tibet over 10,000 years ago, according to recent discovery of stone tools and animal fossils, reported China’s online Tibet news service tb.tibet.cn Apr 15, citing Chinese archaeologists. The report claims this to...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr14’25) – Following a major controversy amid large-scale publicity, monks visiting an international hospital in Vietnam some days ago were only briefly shown just the face of the deceased head of their monastery – which is located in...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr14’25) – In a tit-for-tat move, China said Apr 14 that it will implement reciprocal visa restrictions against individuals from the United States who have acted improperly regarding Xizang-related issues, reported China’s official news outlets chinadaily.com.cn and globaltimes.cn Apr 14, using China’s...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr13’25) – As US President Donald Trump’s tariffs target China much more severely than any other country, Beijing is acting with a “sense of urgency” about shoring up ties with its neighbours and other major trading partners of...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr12’25) – Chinese researchers have revealed, using advanced prediction systems, that the Tibetan Plateau is expected to experience accelerated warming in the next 10 years, reported China’s official Xinhuanews agency Apr 11, citing the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP)...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr11’25) – China is using current nationalist rhetoric to fabricate narratives which suggest that prehistoric archaeological discoveries made in Tibet recently show the territory to be part of its sovereignty even during such periods when the idea of...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr11’25) – Members of the Tibetan Youth Congress, the largest Tibetan NGO, have staged a protest in front of the Chinese embassy in New Delhi today over the explained sudden death in Chinese police custody in Vietnam of...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr10’25) – Following reports that a prominent religious figure in Golog (Chinese: Guoluo) prefecture of Qinghai province had died under explained circumstances in Vietnam under Chinese police custody late last month, the Dalai Lama has said prayers for...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr10’25) – Around 1,300 people from the Spiti Valley, which borders Tibet in Himachal Pradesh state of India, gathered at the Tsuglakhang, Dharamshala, on Apr 10 to make a long-life prayer offering to His Holiness the Dalai Lama....

(TibetanReview.net, Apr09’25) – It has now been revealed that the recently reported death of a locally highly popular Buddhist leader in Chinese ruled Tibet was a victim of transnational repression which occurred in Vietnam. He was stated to have...

Shar Phak Khukta* argues that Tibetans remain ready to return to an autonomous homeland within the People’s Republic of China whereas the Chinese government keeps levelling false accusations and imposing impossible preconditions to prevent talks towards the realisation of...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr08’25) – A team of Chinese seismologists have published a study last month warning of a heightened risk of devastating earthquakes – like the one with magnitude 7.9 which struck Myanmar on Mar 28 – in and around...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr07’25) – After failing in repeated, at times hectic, efforts to unite the two major communist parties of Nepal, China is said to have embarked on a new drive. This is said to involve sidelining their current top...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr05’25) – Tibetans have sought to hold the Chinese government on its recently issued white paper claims to demand that the academic study and other uses of their mother tongue be restored. In its white paper on the...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr05’25) – As Radio Free Asia (RFA) announced this week that its radio broadcasts, including in the Tibetan language, had been drastically cut as transmissions were halted from relay stations owned or leased by the US government, a...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr04’25) – China said Mar 21 that it had started for the first time in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) a programme called “School-stationed Teaching Army Officers” (lob dar cha-doe mag pon) in Ser-nye (Chinese: Seni) district of Nagchu...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr04’25) – Amid rumours whether a prominent Tibetan Buddhist leader in Golog (Chinese: Guoluo) prefecture of Qinghai province who went missing eight months ago had been arrested, Chinese authorities have informed monks of his monastery on Apr 2...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr03’25) – The Drukpa Kagyu community of Tibetan Buddhists made a long-life offering to His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the Tsuglakhang, Dharamshala, on Apr 2. The ceremony was led by the Venerable Thuksey Rinpoché from Darjeeling and...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr03’25) – Following ramped up scrutiny on the education centres in the country in recent years over concerns that Beijing is using them to spread propaganda and spy on Chinese international students, six universities in Australia have quietly...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr02’25) – In a new approach to Sinicizing Tibet and its education system, China has set up a new experimental school in Tibet, with not only the entire school building and its resources but also its curriculum and...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr02’25) – Without addressing the underlying issues, China on Apr 1 condemned the United States for allegedly interfering in Tibet and China’s affairs after Secretary of State Marco Rubio had announced the day before visa restrictions on unspecified...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr01’25) – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has on Mar 31 announced the imposition of additional visa restrictions on Chinese officials involved in policies on access for foreigners to Tibetan areas under Chinese rule. “For far too...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr01’25) – Ahead of a year-long commemorative events marking his 90th birthday, a gathering of some 300 people set out on Mar 31 afternoon on a 100-km trek to retrace the route Taken by His Holiness the Dalai...