(TibetanReview.net, Jan12’24) – Apparently targeting India, China has said Jan 11 that it “firmly opposes external interference” in the internal affairs of the Maldives and supports the Indian Ocean island nation in upholding its sovereignty and independence as the...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan12’24) – Releasing its world report for 2024, covering the year 2023, New York-based Human Rights Watch said Jan 12 that in Tibet, the authorities still forcibly assimilate Tibetans. What is more, extreme information controls make it very...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan11’24) – As Taiwan prepared to vote for a new President and a new parliament on Jan 13, China has made clear whom it does not want to see elected as President: current Vice president Mr Lai Ching-te...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan11’24) – Chinese authorities are carrying out random checks in residential areas and commercial establishments in several parts of Tibet to ensure that Tibetan children don’t attend private Tibetan classes denied in their regular schooling or engage in...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan09’24) – Ahead of Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo and Minister of Foreign Affairs Hadja Lahbib’s visit China this week, marking the first high-level mission since 2019, the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) has called for the...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan09’24) – As recommended by the country’s Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) in its annual report released Apr 2023, the United States has on Jan 4 designated China, along with 11 other countries that included North Korea...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan07’24) – The Chinese government is to boost its infrastructure construction spending in Xizang Autonomous Region, the western half of Tibet proper this year, with an injection from Beijing of 80 billion yuan (about $ 11.26 billion), reported...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan06’24) – China ushered in the year 2024 with the implementation of its Patriotic Education Law, which was adopted by its rubberstamp parliament in Oct 2023. The sweeping new law aims to get families, schools, companies, international institutions,...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan05’24) – India’s External Affairs Minister, Mr S Jaishankar, has on Dec 2 called the country’s Panchsheel agreement with China an example of past government action which is very difficult to understand today. The agreement, signed in Apr...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan04’24) – China has forbidden the admission of new monks at a monastery in the prefecture-level City of Chamdo in Tibet Autonomous Region as it continues to tighten religious activities under its ongoing Sinicization campaign, reported the Tibetan...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan04’24) – Following the conclusion on Jan 1 of his officially announced teaching schedules at Bodh Gaya, the Dalai Lama has, on being invited, presided over the Gelukpa University Convocation on Jan 3 for the award of the...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan04’24) – US-based Biotechnology company Thermo Fisher Scientific said it had halted sales of its DNA collection kits to Chinese-occupied Tibet after criticism from rights groups and pressure from Congress, reported axios.com Jan 3, citing an emailed statement...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan03’24) – Chinese police in Kyegudo (Chinese: Yushu) Prefecture of Qinghai Province had in Oct 2023 placed a Tibetan woman under administrative detention after she criticized police and bureaucratic ill-treatment of Tibetan people, including for subjecting them to...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan02’24) – The Dalai Lama concluded on Jan 1 his 11 days of scheduled programmes at Bodh Gaya, gracing a long-life ceremonial prayer offering made to him by an assortment of three Tibetan entities. They consisted of the...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan01’23) – President Xi Jinping has admitted in his televised annual New Year Eve speech that his country’s economy was in trouble, with some being unable to meet basic needs, while vowing that the democratically self-ruled island of...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec31’23) – Despite record-high grain output this year, making it the 20th consecutive bumper harvest year, China continues to be more dependent than ever before on imports, especially from the US, Canada and Australia, a potential geopolitical risk,...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec30’23) –China has built new border defence villages close to a spot called Yangtse where Indian troops brawled with intruding Chinese soldiers in Arunachal Pradesh a year ago, reported newsweek.com Dec 29, citing recent satellite images. China claims...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec29’23) – Rampant youth unemployment and plummeting marriages after three years of stringent zero-Covid policies under President Xi Jinping has derailed the growth engine that China’s economy has been over the preceding three decades or so. And as...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec28’23) – One of the Party-state of China’s main policies to deal with its failures is to avoid any public discussion of it, and censor those who expose it for doing so, as this is seen to negate...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec27’23) – While traditional or official Tibetan history begins from 127 BC with the enthronement of King Nyatri Tsenpo, the progenitor of the Yarlung dynasty, the country, now China-occupied, was known to be inhabited by humans as far...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec26’23) – Terrorists have been reported to be using China-made weapons, bodysuit cameras and communication devices in their attacks on the Army in India’s Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. China supplies these and other sorts of weapons...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec25’23) – China has formally complained to Nepal that its recent ban on the Chinese-owned, Singapore-based TikTok app was for ‘geopolitical reasons’ and it would not look at it kindly, said an opinion piece posted on kathmandupost.com Dec...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec25’23) – The death toll in Qinghai Province from the 6.2-magnitude earthquake which hit neighbouring Gansu province at 11:59 pm on Dec 18 night has risen to 32 as of 11 pm Dec 24, according to China’s official...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec24’23) – The government of India has decided to turn down, for now, a parliamentary committee recommendation to share Himalayan data for undertaking joint glaciology research with China, citing distrust stemming from the simmering border dispute between the...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec23’23) – Delegates of followers of different traditions of Buddhism from some 33 countries have on Dec 23 held prayers for universal peace under the shade of Bodh Gaya’s Bodhi tree where Buddha Shakyamuni attained enlightenment over 2,500...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec22’23) – Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of the Indian state of Bihar has on De 21 invited Tibet’s exile spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to inaugurate the upcoming Buddha Samyak Darshan (True Faith or Right Perception) museum in...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec22’23) – A Vietnamese Buddhist group based in Europe has condemned in “strongest possible terms” the Chinese government’s interference in Tibetan Buddhist affairs, “namely the recognition of the reincarnation of high lamas, including His Holiness the 14th Dalai...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec21’23) – Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, on Dec 20 inaugurated a conference of followers of different traditions of Buddhism from across the world at Bodh Gaya, the place in the Indian state of Bihar where...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec21’23) – The Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE) is to hold two sessions in Mar 2024, including a twice postponed resumption of its Sep 2023, 6th session, according to announcements issued by its secretariat Dec 21. It will...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec21’23) – China’s top political advisor Wang Huning has called on local cadres for efforts to advance the work related to ethnic and religious affairs with a strong sense of responsibility and mission in his Dec 17-19 tour...