(TibetanReview.net, Nov11’23) – The lofty, meditative but very beautifully photographed film Kundun was a very personal story for Scorsese, tackling the true story of Tibet’s 14th Dalai Lama until China occupation and annexation of his homeland. However, now Disney...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov11’23) – Three activists of the San Francisco chapter of Students for a Free Tibet have on Nov 10 hung a banner from the roof of the city’s Moscone Center, denouncing Chinese President Xi Jinping as a “dictator”...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov10’23) – The publicity section of the cabinet of the Chinese government has today issued its 19th White Paper on Tibet since 1992, with its most distinctive feature being the use of the term “Xizang” or “Xizang Autonomous...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov10’23) – The top Chinese boss of Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), the regional Communist Party Secretary Wang Junzheng, has begun on Nov 8 a five-day visit to Nepal to hold discussions on the progress of the agreements made...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov09’23) – As the exile Tibetan administration holds its fifth strategic meeting since 2021 towards the resolution of the Tibet issue and the exile Tibetan civil society holds a fourth conference since 2022 on Tibet’s future, both at...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov09’23) – Chinese authorities in the Tibetan prefecture of Kanlho (Chinese: Gannan), in Gansu province, had arrested last month a Tibetan Buddhist monastic teacher for having contact with people outside his local area, said the Tibetan service of...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov08’23) – An ethnic Middle School in Yushu (Tibetan: Yulshul) prefecture in Qinghai Province, most of which constitutes the bulk of the historical Tibetan province of Amdo (or Domey), has told parents and teachers in Sep 2023 that...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov07’23) – Chinese authorities in Tibet’s westernmost prefecture of Ngari have told its teachers and students to vow allegiance to the communist party-run People’s Republic of China (PRC) and denounce the Dalai Lama in its latest so-called anti-separatism...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov07’23) – As China and Bhutan talk about settling their Tibet-border disputes sooner rather than later and establishing diplomatic ties in its wake, the latter’s visiting King has met with Indian Prime Narendra Modi on Nov 6 and...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov06’23) – China’s top officials on women have on Oct 30 downplayed gender equality and focused, instead, on President Xi Jinping’s goal for Chinese women: Get married and have babies, reported the New York Times Nov 3. The...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov04’23) – The film Snow Leopard, directed by late Tibetan writer-director Pema Tseden, has won the Tokyo Grand Prix at the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival (Oct 23-Nov 01) as his son Jigme Trinley’s debut film was released...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov03’23) – Almost all of the China-funded Confucius Institutes in the US have closed, reported the bloomberg.com Nov 2, citing a new report. It said all but five of the institutes, which were created in 2004 to promote...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov03’23) – Following reports, most recently on Oct 23, that his country and China had reached an understanding for a speedy settlement of their Tibet-border disputes, King Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck of Bhutan has reached India today for an...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov02’23) – It requires creativity and seizing the moment when an opportunity, rare as it is, presents itself for Chinese citizens to poke fun at their dictatorial leaders and the Halloween Day on Oct 31 was such an...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov01’23) – After limiting the daily number of tourists allowed to enter the Potala Palace to 7,000 or so through much of the year due to the fragility of its ancient architecture, China has now opened it to...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov01’23) – The Tibetan Plateau’s vast currently known deposits constitute around 85% of the total lithium reserves of the People’s Republic of China and Beijing’s rush to exploit it in the face of booming demands for the scarce...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct31’23) – As the Chinese public mourn with fondness for its former premier Li Keqiang who passed away early in the morning of Oct 27, aged 68, as a moderate whose key focus was on the country and...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct30’23) – Comprehensive efforts should be made to promote standard spoken and written Chinese language and the use of unified state-compiled textbooks, China’s official Xinhua news agency Oct 28 cited President Xi Jinping as saying Oct 27, calling...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct29’23) – China has censored all references to the suddenness of the death of its former premier Li Keqiang on Oct 27 and the offering of praises of him on social media while universities have banned mourning activities...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct28’23) – Human rights violations in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong, as well as individual cases of concern were among the large number of issues raised by US Secretary of State Antony J Blinken during his seven-hour meeting...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct28’23) – Mr Tarh Tarak, State BJP Vice-President, has been elected as the new President of Tibet Support Group of Arunachal Pradesh (TSGAP) at a meeting in capital Itanagar on Oct 27, with Mr Nima Sange, Co-Convener Media...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct27’23) – Li Keqiang, China’s former premier for two five-year terms until March this year when he was conspicuously sidelined by President Xi Jinping, has suddenly died early today, a day after he reportedly suffered a heart attack....

(TibetanReview.net, Oct26’23) – Citing the citizen’s constitutional obligation to safeguard national unity and the solidarity of all the country’s ethnic groups, and to safeguard the security, honour and interests of the motherland, China has, on Oct 24, newly adopted...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct26’23) – For collecting donations given for religious offerings, a county police in Qinghai province have detained eight Tibetans, said Tibet monitoring and research group Tibet Watch, which is associated with the London-based campaign group Free Tibet, on...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct25’23) – India’s Defence Minister Mr Rajnath Singh has on Oct 24 visited forward posts near the Tibet-border in Arunachal Pradesh to assess the operational preparedness of the armed forces in the eastern sector amid the ongoing military...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct25’23) – Members of the New Zealand cricket team and their families have on Oct 24 visited His Holiness the Dalai Lama at his Thekchen Choling residence at McLeod Ganj after their Oct 22, and ahead of their...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct24’23) – Echoing Bhutan’s recent remarks, China has said Oct 23 that it was willing to reach a settlement on its occupied-Tibet border issue with that country as soon as possible, paving the way for the establishment of...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct24’23) – A reprint of a book attributing the end of the Ming dynasty 400 years ago to the paranoia and incompetence of the Chinese emperor was pulled off the shelves last week as it drew now censored...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct23’23) – The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) at Dharamshala, India, is to mark 2025 as “Year of Peace” to celebrate the life and legacy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The exile spiritual leader of Tibet will reach...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct21’23) – Sikyong Mr Penpa Tsering, the executive head of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), has urged the international community not to follow China’s lead to use “Xizang” in place of “Tibet” while referring to Tibet Autonomous Region...