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Chinese celebrity chef forced to apologise for egg fried rice show because of Mao’s son

(TibetanReview.net, Dec02’23) – To prepare egg fried rice, which has long been a beloved dish in China and one of most recognizable icons of Chinese cuisine around the world, is to court political controversy, if not danger as well,...

China requires Tibetan job applicants to be anti-Dalai Lama loyalists

(TibetanReview.net, Dec01’23) – Tibetan applicants for Chinese government jobs continue to be required to denounce their exile religious leader, the Dalai Lama, besides being loyal to the Party-state, reported the Tibetan Service of rfa.org Nov 30, citing a directive...

Relocation from one of the highest villages in Tibet reported completed

(TibetanReview.net, Dec01’23) – China said Dec 1 that it had completed this week the relocation of Tibetans from one of the highest villages in Tibet to a lower altitude settlement. Independent sources have in the past condemned such relocations...

Bill making it US policy to act for resolving Tibet issue set for congressional vote

(TibetanReview.net, Nov30’23) – A bipartisan bill which would require the United State government to push China to negotiate with the exile Tibetan leadership to resolve the longstanding Tibet-China dispute now heads for a floor vote after it was unanimously...

More Tibetan Buddhist nun awarded geshema degrees in Bodh Gaya

(TibetanReview.net, Nov30’23) – Seven Tibetan Buddhist nuns have been awarded their geshema degrees, the highest academic achievement in the Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, at a convocation ceremony held in Bodh Gaya, India, on Nov 27. These nuns became...

China opens Sichuan Tibetan territory to high-speed railway traffic as Sichuan-Qinghai Railway gathers pace

(TibetanReview.net, Nov29’23) – China has opened on Nov 28 the Tibetan region of Ngaba (or Ngawa, Chinese: Aba) for high-speed railway traffic from China as a part of its Sichuan-Qinghai Railway project. This is the first railway on the...

China Party-state co-opts foreign mouths, pens, brains to shape global narratives

(TibetanReview.net, Nov28’23) – To counter global criticisms for its authoritarian system, persecution of dissidents, ill-treatment of ethnic minorities, and aggressive behaviour towards neighbours, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-state, led by President XI Jinping, has “cultivated” a large pool of...

China’s Panchen visits more monasteries in prolonged tour of Tibet

(TibetanReview.net, Nov27’23) – The Chinese government’s replacement-appointed 11th Panchen Lama Gyaltsen Norbu appears to have spent far longer period in Tibet this year than at any time before, mainly visiting monasteries and performing prayer services, giving “head touching” blessings...

China opens for traffic crucial Lijiang-Shangri-la section of strategic Yunnan-Tibet railway

(TibetanReview.net, Nov27’23) – China has opened to traffic today a crucial section of its strategically grand Tibet-Yunnan Railway, connecting two well-known tourist cities in Yunnan province. With the operation of the Lijiang-Shangri-la railway, the fastest travel time between the...

Divided pro-China votes appear set to ensure another DPP presidency for Taiwan

(TibetanReview.net, Nov25’23) – China’s hope for a new President of Taiwan amenable to its goal of eventual ‘reunification” of the island has suffered a blow with the two opposition parties amenable to it failing to agree on a common...

China’s white paper on Tibet and the audacity of lies

EDITORIAL (TibetanReview.net, Nov24’23) – Academics in China derive their relevance and, indeed, legitimacy from the fact that they paint a glorious picture of the situation in the country, as mandated by its Communist Party dictators, no matter how far...

Canadian ministers, MP’s honour visiting exile Tibetan leader

(TibetanReview.net, Nov24’23) – The Sikyong Mr Penpa Tsering, the executive head of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) at Dharamshala, India, was on Nov 22 introduced in the Canadian Parliament as “the voice of the Tibetans around the world”, said...

Report: Mosque-Sinicization persecution sweeping other parts of China

(TibetanReview.net, Nov23’23) – China is closing, destroying, or repurposing hundreds to over a thousand mosques in an expansion of its campaign of Sinicizing the Islamic faith beyond Xinjiang to other Muslim areas in the country, according to New York-based...

Dalai Lama’s Sikkim, Salugara teachings back on schedule

(TibetanReview.net, Nov21’23) – In an apparent suggestion that he is back in robust health, the Dalai Lama is to give his previously postponed or cancelled teachings in Sikkim and Salugara next month before his scheduled Bodh Gaya teachings, according...

China’s Panchen ordained monks first time, sermonises them to thank the Party

(TibetanReview.net, Nov21’23) – Questions continue to hang starkly over the whereabouts or, indeed, the very fate of the 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima he replaced in 1995. But this has not prevented the Chinese government-appointed 11th Panchen Lama Gyaltsen (or...

Devotees invited to register online for Dalai Lama’s Bodh Gaya teachings

(TibetanReview.net, Nov21’23) – With the Dalai Lama’s schedule of teachings at Bodh Gaya towards the end of next month confirmed, those desirous to attend it have been invited to register online at www.dalailamateaching.com, although prior registration is not compulsory....

World Children’s Day: Belgium condemns China’s forced assimilation schooling for Tibetan children

(TibetanReview.net, Nov20’23) – As China continues its propaganda drive to dismiss well-documented reports, including by the United Nations, that it is carrying out an acculturation schooling system for Tibetan children in their occupied homeland, the Belgian parliament has issued...

Security in readiness to act as Shigatse Tibetans lined up to file past China’s Panchen Lama

(TibetanReview.net, Nov19’23) – Serious-looking security personnel stood in readiness to handle anything that might breach the peace and embarrass the authorities as Tibetans stood in line to file past the Chinese government-appointed 11th Panchen Lama Gyaltsen Norbu at Tashilhunpo...

China condemns US President Biden’s branding of Xi as dictator, still paints a glowing account of their summit

(TibetanReview.net, Nov18’23) – China has condemned US president Joe Biden’s reiteration of his position that its virtually life-time President Xi Jinping is a “dictator”, although this does not appear to have soured Beijing’s portrayal of the two leaders’ Nov...

Tibet among rights issues raised in President Biden’s Xi meeting

(TibetanReview.net, Nov17’23) – US President Joe Biden has included Tibet among issues of human rights he raised in his meeting Nov 16 with visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping. However, he has been urged to go further to push China...

Chinese supporters clashed with Tibet protesters outside Xi Jinping hotel in San Francisco

(TibetanReview.net, Nov17’23) – Chinese supporters had clashed with Tibet protesters outside the Hyatt Regency hotel in San Francisco as Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived for the Nov 15-17 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference of 21 member-countries. Almost a thousand...

President Xi derided for claiming China entirely innocent of any territorial aggression

(TibetanReview.net, Nov17’23) – Chinese president Xi Jinping claim Nov 16 that his country had “not provoked a conflict or war, or occupied a single inch of foreign land” has been received with derision in India which had suffered an...

Tibetan Snowlion flags register marked presence at protests during San Francisco APEC summit

(TibetanReview.net, Nov16’23) – Tibetans with their Snowlion national flags – some being waved about or held up, others draped around them, yet others being held from or planted on strategic high spots – were a marked presence among hundreds...

Aborted September session of exile Tibetan parliament to resume in December

(TibetanReview.net, Nov16’23) – The Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE) is to reconvene next month in a resumption of the session which opened in September but was postponed in disarray after a quorum-busting section of its members staged a walkout....

President Biden greeted with Xi Jinping supporters and protesters on arrival for APEC summit

(TibetanReview.net, Nov15’23) – As hundreds of Chinese nationals, including students from local San Francisco universities like UC Berkeley and Stanford, gathered with massive Chinese Communist Party flags to welcome their dictatorial leader Xi Jinping for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation...

China’s Panchen reportedly blessed ‘devotees’ in Tibet’s Shigatse city

(TibetanReview.net, Nov15’23) – China said Nov 14 that Gyaltsen Norbu, whom it had designated and appointed in Dec 1995 as the 11th Panchen Lama of Tibet, had given “head-touching” blessing to more than 38,000 Buddhist adherents in Shigatse City....

China opens a fourth Tibet-Nepal land port as a step to BRI opening to south Asia

(TibetanReview.net, Nov14’23) – China has on Nov 13 opened a new land port serving as a gateway between it through Tibet and Nepal to give bilateral economic and trade exchanges a major boost, reported China’s official chinadaily.com.cn Nov 13...

Nepal begins implementing TikTok ban for ‘disturbing social harmony’

(TibetanReview.net, Nov14’23) – Banned in India as a threat to national security and in at least 34 US states for federal and state employees amid criticisms from Beijing, China’s TikTok had been delivered the same fate in Nepal on...

Dalai Lama set for mid-December int’l Buddhist event in Mumbai?

(TibetanReview.net, Nov12’23) – Tibet’s exile spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, is to visit Mumbai next month to take part in a high-profile international Buddhist conference, report the PTI news agency Nov 12, citing India’s union minister Mr Ramdas Athawale....

China-based int’l journal rejects Indian scientists’ paper for citing ‘Arunachal Pradesh’ as sampling site

(TibetanReview.net, Nov12’23) – An international peer-reviewed journal based in China has forced Indian scientists to withdraw from publication a paper on the White-Cheeked Macaque, objecting to its mentioning of Arunachal Pradesh as a sampling site, reported thehindu.com Nov 11....