(TibetanReview.net, Apr22’24) —Five protesters, including Tibetan and Taiwanese Americans, of whom three were students, were escorted out while a sixth one staged a walkout on Apr 20 morning to disrupt the Chinese Ambassador to the United States Xie Feng’s...

OPINION Vijay Kranti* expresses delight at the fact that the Foreign Relations Committee of the US Senate has cleared the way for a new US law which will recognize Tibet as an ‘Occupied Country’, CHOLKA-SUM as the ‘Real Tibet’,...

OPINION Phuntsog Wangyal* argues that loyalty to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the desire for freedom are not incompatible, that clamouring for Tibet’s independence is not only a matter of political freedom in consonance with our democratic system...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr19’24) —The United States has on Apr 17 delivered 38 cultural relics to China as part of a repatriation deal to help Beijing retrieve artifacts that have been lost throughout the centuries. However, what is disconcerting about this...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr18’24) — China claims to give high priority to teaching Tibetan children their language and culture when addressing the issue on its official media and especially at international human rights meetings. However, what it is doing on the...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr17’24) — The move by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army to recruit Tibetan youths into its ranks has the twin objectives of weaning them away from their traditional cultural environment to advance its drive to Sinicize the Tibetan...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr17’24) —A bill mandating the US government to pressure China to negotiate with the Dalai Lama or his representatives or the democratically elected exile Tibetan leadership to reach a settlement on the legal status of Tibet has moved...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr16’24) — Chinese authorities in Markham (Chinese: Mangkang) County of Chamdo (Changdu or Qamdo) City in Tibet had arrested on Apr 10 four Tibetans for involvement in protest against an official’s illegal confiscation and sale of the local...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr15’24) —Bollywood star Ms Kangana Ranaut has on Apr 15 called on His Holiness the Dalai Lama at his residence in Dharamshala along with former BJP Chief minister (Ex-CM) Jairam Ramesh Thakur of Himachal Pradesh. The much-publicized Indian...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr15’24) —The BJP government of India has reiterated its position Apr 12 that China has not occupied any Indian land, but that it has raised tension by bringing its troops to the upper part of the mountainous areas...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr14’24) — The forest fire which raged for days across Nyagchu (Chinese: Yajiang) County of Kardze (Ganzi or Garze) prefecture, Sichuan Province, from the middle of last month has stuck a severe blow on the livelihood of the...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr13’24) — China has ordered a 135-year-old vibrant Tibetan Buddhist monastic centre in Tsolho (Chinese: Hainan) Prefecture of Qinghai province to relocate to make way for building the world’s tallest 3D-printed hydropower dam, claiming it has “no significant...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr12’24) — The Tibet group in the Canadian province of Ontario, with its city of Toronto, home to a significant number of recent Tibetan asylees, on Apr 9 accorded a distinguished welcome to the visiting Sikyong (executive head),...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr12’24) — In what is seen as a softening of India’s tone or stand on its currently defiant posture on the tense Tibet-border situation with China, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the two sides should “urgently address...

OPINION John Billington** feels sure that Tibet will endure and survive despite the immense odds it faces against its marauding conqueror China, as Edwin Muir’s poem below tells us, because it embodies values the human civilization needs, as evolutionary...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr10’24) — Tibet’s exile spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, said just recently that he was in great health and felt confident to live to be a centenarian. Nevertheless, the Chinese government is not taking chances and one of...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr08’24) — The occupied territories of East Turkestan (Xinjiang) and Tibet have yielded for the Communist Party of China state enormous, world-class deposits of oil, gas, and all sorts of minerals, including gold, lithium, copper, iron, and rare...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr08’24) — China has shut down a Tibetan-language weblog and its related social media blog that have been popular among Tibetans in Tibet and exile for alleged copyright infringement. However, the move is seen as part of an...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr08’24) —Mt Everest on the Chinese-occupied Tibet side is opening for business for non-mainland Chinese foreigners again after four years of Covid-19 pandemic ban. Climbers must obtain separate visas for Tibet, in addition to their tourist visas for...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr08’24) — China and Ukraine established formal diplomatic relations in 1992, a year after the latter gained independence from the erstwhile Soviet Union, and went on to declare themselves strategic partners in 2011. But now China has ramped...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr07’24) — Well-known Ladakh-based Indian climate activist Mr Sonam Wangchuk has called off his planned Apr 7 march at the head of his supporters to the Chinese-occupied Tibet’s border. He wanted to “avoid any sort of confrontation with...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr06’24) — Chinese police have arrested a Tibetan Buddhist monk in Ngaba (or Ngawa, Chinese: Aba) county of Kardze (Ganzi) prefecture in Sichuan province last month when he staged a lone protest against government policies, carrying a portrait...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr06’24) — China is set to develop 175 more border villages on the occupied-Tibet side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) facing the northeast Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. These settlements will be in addition to the...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr05’24) — China which has been intimidating Taiwan with a series of highly menacing military exercises with threats to invade should it move towards formally declaring independence has expressed thanks to the world for showing concern over the...

LETTER Recently I visited Wales and as I travelled through the rolling valleys and rugged mountains I was reminded of places in Tibet. It was impossible to miss the masses of golden daffodils, currently in bloom, and I was...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr04’24) — A delegation of Buddhist monks from Sri Lanka has on Apr 4 presented to His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Dharamshala, relics of the Buddha that has been kept at their monastery for the last one...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr04’24) — At a time when the Buddhadharma is seeing a bit of a decline, I am determined to serve it for another 15-20 years, said Holiness the Dalai Lama Apr 3 at a ceremony to offer long-life...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr03’24) — India’s External Affair Minister, Mr S Jaishankar, has said Apr 2 that mistakes made by independent India’s first Prime Minister had led to problems including Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) and China’s occupation of some parts of...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr03’24) — The United States has on Apr 2 criticized China’s Mar 30 announcement of a list of 30 new names for places in the India state of Arunachal Pradesh, calling it yet another “unilateral attempt” to reassert...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr02’24) — Reacting to China’s renaming of 30 more places in Arunachal Pradesh, announced on Mar 30, India said Apr 2 that it would not have any effect on the ground reality. Arunachal Pradesh was, is, and will...