(TibetanReview.net, Mar31’24) — Despite Covid-19 lockdowns and restrictions having long become a thing of the past across the world, and China having even granted visa-free entry to citizens of a number of countries to boost its tourism industry, the...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar31’24) — China marked on Mar 28 the 65th anniversary of its scrapping of a “one country, two systems” policy for Tibet, promised less than eight years earlier, in 1951, with public celebrations across the occupied territory, including...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar31’24) — In yet another provocative move, asserting cartographic sovereignty over the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh on the basis of its occupation rule over Tibet, China has on Mar 30 declared its own names for 30...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar30’24) — The massive $1.2 trillion government funding bill passed by the US Congress earlier this month and signed into law by President Joe Biden on Mar 23 to fund the rest of the federal government included provisions...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar30’24) — The heightened level of bonhomie seen in India-Bhutan relations in recent times has prompted a Chinese academic to warn that it could have “obvious and direct” impacts on China’s efforts to resolve its long-running occupied-Tibet border...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar29’24) —The seventh session of the 17th Tibetan Parliament in Exile concluded today with the approval of an over Indian Rs 3.33 billion budget for the financial year Apr 2024-Mar 2025 of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA). It...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar28’24) — While most of the Tibetans, including hundreds of monks, detained and severely ill-treated and beaten during their interrogation for around a month by Chinese police since the last week of Feb 2024 in Dege county of...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar28’24) —The 29th meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs has been held in Beijing on Mar 27 and the two sides had an in-depth exchange of views on how to achieve...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar27’24) —Police in India have on Mar 26 detained two young Chinese nationals who illegally crossed over from Nepal, claiming to wish to meet the Dalai Lama and also visit Bengaluru, reported the timesofindia.com Mar 26. A man,...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar27’24) —China has on Mar 26 called on India to respect its sovereignty claims over the disputed South China Sea (SCS) after the latter backed Philippines’ maritime sovereignty based on international law. The bitter row comes as China...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar26’24) — Hundreds of remaining monks and other Tibetans detained by Chinese police in Feb 2024 for gathering to protest and petition against a major hydroelectric power dam complex being built in Dege County of Kardze prefecture, Sichuan...

LETTER (TibetanReview.net, Mar26’24) All who were watching the ongoing Tibetan parliament session might have wondered with bated breath when MP Jamphel Tenzin stood up to declare that what he was going to address the House about would be done...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar25’24) —For the fourth time since Mar 11, China has reiterated its claim that the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh is “Zangnan”, or southern Tibet, and belongs to it in view of the apparent fact that Tibet is...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar24’24) —Hospitals across China are closing their obstetric departments due to lack of patients as the country of 1.4 billion people suffered a population decline for two consecutive years despite government efforts to stem the falling tide both...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar23’24) — The forest fire that erupted on Mar 15 evening and immediately swept through Nyagchu (Chinese: Yajiang) County of Kardze (Ganzi or Garze) prefecture, Sichuan Province, is still smouldering and it started from a construction site, reported...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar23’24) —Amid reports that Bhutan and China are likely to reach a final settlement of their dispute over the latter’s occupied Tibet border, with significant potential security implications for India, New Delhi has on Mar 22 announced a...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar22’24) —Ji Guogang, a Chinese official who has held various senior positions in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) since 2013, including as the former vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the Regional People’s Congress, has pleaded guilty for corruption...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar22’24) —Beijing denied access to Mt Kailash in Tibet to nearly 50,000 Indian pilgrims seeking to travel there through Nepal last year and the situation does not seem likely to change, given the state of Sino-India relations, reported...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar22’24) —China relishes the fact that no country recognizes the Tibetan government in exile as if this legitimizes its coerced 1951 annexation of its eastern neighbour. However, when the United States recently expressed its recognition of Arunachal Pradesh...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar21’24) — As China speaks of the primacy of the interests of “all ethnic groups”, designedly including the Han predominant group, to combat what it calls “ethnic minority exceptionalism” under President Xi Jinping’s assimilationist call for “a sense...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar21’24) —Tibetans protesting against Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi clashed with police as they tried to get inside the Chinese embassy compound in Australia’s capital Canberra on Mar 20 afternoon, reported Daily Mail Australia Mar 20, citing video...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar20’24) —India on Mar 19 reiterated its offhanded rejection of China’s claim over its northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, calling it “absurd” and “baseless”, two days after the latter’s military sought to reassert it on the basis of...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar19’24) — The fire has been extinguished from one field of its spread, has been contained in the remaining two, and the number of villagers evacuated as a safety measure was more than 5,900, said China’s latest official...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar19’24) —“Minorities” appear to have become a dirty word in President Xi Jinping’s China, as the party-state shifts focus, instead, to speaking of “all ethnic groups” to combat “ethnic minority exceptionalism” and promote the concept of zhonghua –...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar18’24) — The forest fire in Kardze (Ganzi or Garze) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province, has affected two counties and reached a residential area in one of them even as it has been put out at one of...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar17’24) — Nearly 3,400 Tibetans from a number of villages have been evacuated and more than 1200 firefighters deployed to fight a raging forest fire which started on Mar 15 evening in the eastern Tibetan County of Nyagchu...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar17’24) —China has made it clear Mar 15 that geographical names in ethnic minority or foreign languages should reflect the country’s sovereign and extraterritorial claims when translated into Chinese characters. These would include names of islands in the...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar16’24) — As Tibetans and supporters across the free world commemorated the 65th anniversary of their national uprising on Mar 10, there was total blackout on information from Tibet itself as China greatly tightens security ahead of the...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar15’24) — A popular Tibetan writer and poet taken away by police in Malho prefecture of Chinese-ruled Qinghai province more than three years ago continues to remain disappeared, with his family being denied any information on his condition...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar15’24) —After apparently failing to get the event cancelled, China has on Mar 13 expressed deep dissatisfaction and lodged a stern opposition to the US and Canada’s determination to hold an event on the preservation of Tibetans’ unique...