(TibetanReview.net, Jan29’24) – In what is seen as an unprecedented move, visiting Chinese leaders have publicly claimed that certain countries were trying to destabilise the good relations between Nepal and China, while some elements were also defaming the Belt...

OPINION Palden Sonam* argues that the American company Thermo Fisher Scientific’s recent statement that it had stopped the sale of its DNA-based human identification technology in Tibet Autonomous Region, though a symbolic victory to the campaigners, will have little...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan28’24) – In what is seen as a message to China, India has awarded its third highest civilian honour, the Padma Bhushan, to Taiwan’s Liu Young-way, the Chief Executive Officer of Foxconn. The move will send a very...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan27’24) – India is to repopulate a village in its Himalayan state of Uttarakhand lying nearest to Tibet’s border after having evacuated its residents during the late 1962 war with China, reported indiatimes.com Jan 27. The decision follows...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan27’24) – A federal jury in Boston has on Jan 25 convicted a Chinese music student on charges of stalking and harassing one of his Chinese classmates after she had posted flyers in support of freedom and democracy...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan26’24) – While China’s stock propaganda line is that “Tibet has been part of China since ancient times,” a retired Chinese university professor has presented imperial record-evidence Jan 25 to show this was not true. The occasion was...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan26’24) – China has responded with what amounted to saying a polite “no” to India’s suggestion that it could ease its heightened scrutiny of Chinese investments if peace is restored at the two countries’ border along occupied Tibet....

(TibetanReview.net, Jan25’24) – As the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group at Geneva prepared to finalize on Jan 26 its recommendations on the basis of its Jan 23 hearing, China has put itself in...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan25’24) – China met stinging criticism from Western countries during a review of its rights record at the United Nations on Jan 23, while other nations lumped praise on Beijing, including Russia and Iran, reported the AFP Jan...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan24’24) – The hinterland of the Tibetan Plateau, reputed as the “roof of the world” or the world’s third pole, had been inhabited since 50,000 years ago, rather than 40,000 years as previously known, reported China’s official Xinhua...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan24’24) – China is found to have jailed for three years a Tibetan Buddhist monk it arrested in the historically Tibetan region of Sichuan province in 2021 for among other reasons leading prayer ceremonies during the Covid-19 lockdown...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan23’24) – China appears to have completed in remote western Tibet the building of a new dam which if true will enable it to control the flow of water to Nepal and India’s northern plains, reported the newsweek.com...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan23’24) – Even as it demanded that the issue be not politicized, China has been lobbying non-Western countries, asking them to praise its human rights record ahead of a UN group’s Jan 23 meeting in Geneva where it...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan22’24) – The Dalai Lama arrived back at his Thekchen Choling home in Dharamshala, India, today after being away for some 40 days, visiting Sikkim, Bagdogra (West Bengal) and Bodh Gaya to mainly give a series of religious...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan22’24) – India is the only country in South Asia where China still does not have an ambassador, although the post has been lying vacant for the past 15 months, reported the IANS news service Jan 21. The...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan21’24) – Wondering why natural disasters had seen a marked increase especially in specific areas of the Indian Himalayas in recent years, India’s defence Minister, Mr Rajnath Singh, has wondered Jan 18 whether this was a result of...

OBITUARY Tenzin Dorjee* pays tribute to a friend who was born in Tibet under Chinese occupation rule, raised in India as an orphan, driven out of Nepal as an activist, rediscovered himself as an artist in America, and who...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan20’24) – China has announced the discovery of a massive deposit of lithium, a key material in the country’s flourishing new-energy sector that has emerged as a pillar of economic growth, in an area that was previously part...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan20’24) – China is the worst jailer of journalists in the world, according to New York-based watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), releasing a report Jan 18, based on its Dec 1 prison census survey. Nearly half of...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan19’24) – The human rights record of a stubbornly uncooperative China will be examined by the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the fourth time on Jan 23 in a meeting in...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan19’24) – The US Secretary of State has on Jan 18 awarded the Department’s International Religious Freedom Award to eight individuals from different countries in recognition of their courage and commitment to promoting and defending religious freedom globally....

(TibetanReview.net, Jan18’24) – Amid claims and suggestions that an uneasy calm has continued to prevail on India’s border with Chinese occupied Tibet, it has emerged that more clashes between Indian and Chinese troops have occurred than had been reported...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan17’24) – Although her position on the issue of Tibet throughout her two terms has been marked by China-sensitive caution of silence, outgoing President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan has lavished gratitude on Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan17’24) – Did King Frederik X of Denmark wear a distinctly Tibetan Buddhist bracelet when he ascended the Danish throne on Jan 14, succeeding his mother, Queen Margrethe II, who abdicated after 52 years as monarch? A report...

OPINION John Billington* pays tribute to the distinctly Buddhist-altruistic character which defines the Tibetan culture, underlining its enduring global appeal. (TibetanReview.net, Jan17’24) Tibet’s culture is UNIQUE.  There is no other culture like it in the world.  It is a...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan16’24) – President Xi Jinping has sought to drive home the point that China is more than anything else a Communist Party of China-state and demanded continued, absolute loyalty to the Party from the country’s judicial and law...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan15’24) – The Dalai Lama as well as top leaders of the exile Tibetan administration have congratulated Mr Lai Ching-te (or William Lai) on his election Jan 13 as the new President of Taiwan while China has scolded...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan15’24) – China said Jan 14 that it had extended its national power grid connections to remote outposts to boost its capabilities in border defence. Its official globaltimes.cn said Jan 14 that a group of its reporters recently...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan14’24) – China’s campaign of warplanes, naval ships, balloons and fearsome rhetoric to intimidate voters have left Beijing red-face after Taiwan still elected Mr Lai Ching-te as president in elections held on Jan 13. China had called him...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan13’24) – As the dispute between India and China along Tibet’s border continues to simmer, the two countries are trying to outbuild each other to enhance their relative advantages in the event of the outbreak of a conflict,...