Tibetan Review
New Nepal government assures policy continuity to concerned China
(TibetanReview.net, Apr09’26) – Following visits earlier by multiple delegates from the Communist Party of China (CPC) and a congratulations meeting from Chinese ambassador Zhang Maoming on Apr 7, Nepal has assured Beijing that its stance towards China, including the...
China takes a potshot at exile Tibetan election exercise
(TibetanReview.net, Apr08’26) – Anyone who is not a “useful idiot” of China knows that Beijing’s so-called “whole process people’s democracy” to describe the country’s government system in glowing terms lacks any substance, and is, in fact, nothing but a...
China breaks ground for another massive solar power plant in Tibet, with little social impact info
(TibetanReview.net, Apr07’26) – China’s mega projects in ecologically fragile, seismically active Tibet, especially those meant for generating electric power and providing mass transport services, have always been controversial, all the more because they also involve what is seen as...
Elections’26: Cut out noises and vote in sanity for the 16th TPiE
OPINION Ahead of the Tibetan public voting on Apr 26 to elect the 45-member, 18th Tibetan Parliament in Exile, Tenzin Norbu* pitches for candidates who support the middle way policy for the sake of ensuring an orderly functioning of...
No evidence of Food poisoning by guides in Nepal’s fake Mt Everest rescue racket
(TibetanReview.net, Apr06’26) – While 32 people face charges for a $20 million fraud in the widely reported multi-year fake Mt Everest rescue scandal, authorities have clarified that there is “no evidence” that guides intentionally poisoned clients to engineer altitude...
Delhi gov’t to phase out Chinese CCTV cameras due to security concerns
(TibetanReview.net, Apr06’26) – Following central government guidelines citing security and data privacy concerns, the government of Delhi is to replace over 140,000 Chinese-made CCTV cameras, reported economictimes.com Apr 2. More than half of Delhi’s CCTV surveillance network comprises Chinese-origin...
Upper Mustang residents push for full opening for tourism
(TibetanReview.net, Apr05’26) – To most Tibetans having any awareness about the place, Upper Mustang is a historically Tibetan area in Nepal where a clandestine guerrilla base was established in the early 1960s to launch cross-border attacks on the Chinese...
Exhibition showcases independent Tibet during British India
(TibetanReview.net, Apr04’26) – Tibet was an independent country when Great Britain ruled India and had a political officer posted in Sikkim, then also an independent kingdom, to conduct diplomacy with it, highlights an exhibition that opened Apr 3 at...
Nepal’s spring Everest climbing season begins as 32 charged for scamming climbers, insurers
(TibetanReview.net, Apr03’26) – The dangers of climbing the world’s highest peak, Mt Everest, posed by nature and its elements are pretty well-known. However, other dangers also appear to lurk. Nepal has charged 32 people involved in facilitating climbs and...
China debuts Sinicized Tibetan dance drama to propagandise ethnic unity campaign message
(TibetanReview.net, Apr02’26) – China premiered on Mar 28 a Sinicized Tibetan tap dance drama in Beijing to celebrate the 67th anniversary of its full annexation of Tibet. The event came as Beijing implemented a new ethnic unity law which...
India to effectively ban Chinese CCTV cameras due to security concerns
(TibetanReview.net, Apr02’26) – India has decided to block several Chinese manufacturers from selling internet-connected CCTV cameras in the country starting Apr 1 as part of a major push to strengthen digital security and reduce dependence on foreign surveillance technology,...
China has jailed disappeared Tibetan monk in secret trial after sounding his imminent release
(TibetanReview.net, Apr01’26) – A Tibetan Buddhist monk who remained disappeared since his arrest by Chinese police in Tibet’s capital Lhasa more than four and half years ago has been found jailed for seven years after a secret trial, reported...
Dalai Lama set for Ladakh visit this summer
(TibetanReview.net, Apr01’26) – As in past many years, save during the Covid-19 pandemic period of 2020-22, the Dalai Lama is to visit Ladakh this summer. The exiled spiritual leader of Tibet gave his consent after a delegation from the...
17th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile concludes last session, adopts new flag rules
(TibetanReview.net, Mar31’26) – That last biannual session of the 17th Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE) concluded on Mar 30 with the adoption of an over Indian Rs. 3.4 billion budget for the financial year Apr 2026-Mar 2027, and new...
Along with Senate resolution, new Czech Chamber of Deputies revives its Tibet group
(TibetanReview.net, Mar30’26) – The Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic has set up a Parliament Tibet Support Group following the election held in early Oct 2025, said the Central Tibetan Administration on its Tibet.net website...
China celebrates Serfs’ Emancipation Day to mark terminating one country, two systems policy for Tibet
(TibetanReview.net, Mar29’26) – China has marked on Mar 28 the 67th anniversary of its termination of what was akin to a one-country-two-systems promise it had made to Tibet in 1951 with the raising of its Red Star flag before...
China expresses readiness to work with new Nepal gov’t as pro-Beijing former PM Oli arrested
(TibetanReview.net, Mar29’26) – China has welcomed Nepal’s new Prime Minister Balendra Shah as it seeks to recast two decades of Nepal policy anchored in the country’s Communist stalwarts KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda”, who sought to...
Taiwan to teach Mandarin to Tibetan students in India
(TibetanReview.net, Mar28’26) –While imposing Mandarin learning from pre-school education onwards as a coercive measure with an agenda to assimilate the Tibetan people envisaged by China’s recently adopted ethnic unity and progress law is condemned, learning the language as a...
Tibet, a rare exception to China’s visa-free entry for citizens of over 50 countries
(TibetanReview.net, Mar27’26) – While China has opened up the People’’s Republic of China (PRC) for visa-free entry or transit to a total of 77 nationalities from over 50 countries in an effort to give a boost to its flagging...
China vents spleen on Czech senate resolution on Dalai Lama succession, Tibetan identity issues
(TibetanReview.net, Mar27’26) –China has on Mar 27 expressed anger over the Czech Senate’s Mar 25 resolution on Tibet. The resolution condemned, among other things, China’s move to appoint its own reincarnate successor to the current Dalai Lama and its...
China tightens Mt Kailash pilgrimage for Tibetan devotees
(TibetanReview.net, Mar27’26) –Undertaking a pilgrimage to Mt Kailash has become more restricted to Tibetan devotees than even non-Tibetan tourists, with the former being subjected to onerous ID checks and patriotism tests, reported bitterwinter.org Mar 27, citing local Tibetan sources....
Czech Senate condemns China’s Dalai Lama reincarnation meddling, assault on Tibetan identity
(TibetanReview.net, Mar26’26) – The Senate of the Czech Republic’s parliament has on Mar 25 adopted a resolution, defending the religious freedom of the Tibetan people and their exclusive right to determine their future spiritual leaders in the context of...
Nepal to get new railway line with India as RSP gov’t takes office, its Tibet railway lagging
(TibetanReview.net, Mar25’26) – Ahead of a new government taking office in Kathmandu following the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), with its 35-year-old Prime Ministerial leader Balen(dra) Shah’s, massive recent electoral victory, India has come out with a Detailed Project Report...
US Senators in cross-party call to advance Tibet issue as new special coordinator took charge
(TibetanReview.net, Mar24’26) – Two US Senators have on Mar 20 called on the Trump Administration’s top official on dealing with the issue of Tibet vis-a-vis China to step up on his implementation of the US laws that most recently...
Tibet scores zero for freedom in rights group’s latest annual global survey
(TibetanReview.net, Mar24’26) – For the third successive year, Tibet under Chinese occupation rule has scored zero for freedom in a watchdog’s latest annual global survey released on Mar 19. The Freedom in the World 2026 report, released by Freedom...
China tightens restrictions on officials’ overseas travels to manage political risk
(TibetanReview.net, Mar23’26) – China has launched sweeping restrictions on foreign travels of serving and retired regime officials, reflecting fears in the CCP about asset flight or disclosure of politically sensitive information at a time of intensifying internal pressure and...
China to debut Sinicized Tibetan tap dance to mark Tibet dissolution day
(TibetanReview.net, Mar22’26) – China is to mark its full annexation of Tibet in Beijing on Mar 28 with theatrical presentations of a Sinicized version of the Tibetan tap dance produced with the involvement of Chinese propaganda and dance bodies...
CCP’s Show Biz Policy in Tibet: A Sinister Agenda Hidden in Plain Sight
OPINION Professor Phuntsog* makes a striking observation, suggesting that the CCP employs a calculated strategy to manipulate public perception. While permitting the production and showcasing of Tibetan music and dance—the visible and surface-level aspects of culture, likened to the...
China returns Tibetan monk’s custodial dead body to monastery in Qinghai
(TibetanReview.net, Mar21’26) – Chinese police in a northeastern part of Qinghai province had returned the body of a young Tibetan Buddhist monk to his monastery on Dec 8, 2025 after having taken him away previously on an unspecified date...
US far-right activist Loomer elated by her ‘rare and meaningful encounter’ with Dalai Lama
(TibetanReview.net, Mar21’26) – American far-right political activist Laura Loomer, known for her access to President Donald Trump, has on Mar 20 met Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, at his home in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, and hailed him...



































