(TibetanReview.net, Feb04’26) – The exploitable solar, wind and hydropower resources in western Tibet, demarcated by China as Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), alone could theoretically meet all of the energy needs of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), reported scmp.com...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb04’26) – The Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Asia (RFA), with their Tibetan services, are expected to be back in business with the US fund for Tibetan projects also being continued, said Washington-based International Campaign for...

TibetanReview.net, Feb03’26) – Although a person entering a country without a visa and having no linguistic skill defies the persona of a spy, the arrest of a Chinese person in McLeodganj (Dharamshala) on Feb 2 has raises security concerns...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb03’26) – Beijing sees anti-China menace whenever and wherever the name “Dalai Lama” crops up, unless it is one which criticises him. And so, it exploded with anger when the global media reported on his winning on Feb...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb02’26) – The Dalai Lama has added a new title to his long list of global honours – he is now a Grammy winner. On music world’s biggest night, the 68th Grammy Awards, which took place in Los...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb01’26) – In order to give a significant boost to tourism in eastern Tibet’s Kardze (Chinese: Ganzi or Garzê) region, which presently forms part of China’s Sichuan province, the local government has introduced what has been called a...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan31’26) – The Himalayan populations have strongest of ancestral affinity with Tibet and Siberia but less with China, reported the timesofindia.com Jan 31, citing a recent DNA study presented at an ongoing international conference. A recent DNA study...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan31’26) – Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer of Great Britain has said China had lifted “all restrictions” on six current members of the British Parliament, after he held talks with President Xi Jinping in Beijing. However, a Labour...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan30’26) – The English translation has been launched on Jan 29 of a book by a retired professor from US and Hong Kong which lays bare China’s official and archival historical records which pointedly refute the current party-state’s...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan29’26) – Humla, Nepal’s northern-most district sharing border with Tibet, suffers from climate change-induced livelihood breakdown and the increasing outmigration of communities in the face of government apathy to the residents’ worsening plight, reported kathmandupost.com Jan 25. In...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan28’26) – The Election Commission (EC) of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) has on Jan 28 suspended the electoral rights of one person for eight years and cautioned two others for violating or potentially violating the electoral rules...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan26’27) – More than 20,000 people in a county in a Tibetan prefecture in Gansu province have been evacuated following a 5.5-magnitude earthquake which jolted it in the afternoon of Jan 26, said China’s official media reports Jan...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan26’27) – For the third consecutive year in 2025, China jailed more journalists than any other country, retaining the dubious distinction of being “the world’s worst jailer of journalists”, according to the latest annual report of an international...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan26’26) – When it comes to clean energy, Tibet is the source and China’s power-hungry coastal megacities the consumers, with the unabashedly exploitative manner in which production is carried out by state-linked Chinese companies rendering the situation colonial,...

Tenzin Norzin* presents her case for the election of Mr Tseten Phuntsok as a candidate for the North-South Americas in the preliminary poll to be held on Feb 1, 2026, for the 18th Tibetan Parliament in Exile. This election is not...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan25’26) – China says it has achieved a major technological breakthrough which makes much more profitable its extraction of lithium, often referred to as “white gold”, from its salt lake lithium resources. “China’s” primary lithium mines are concentrated...

Kelsang Phuntsok Jungney* dwells on his qualifications as a North and South Americas candidate for election to the upcoming, 18th Tibetan Parliament in Exile, and his agenda if elected. After a community event in Seattle, a friend shared a...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan24’26) – China removed the head-lama of a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Yushu prefecture of Qinghai province from his provincial level political advisory and religious bodies in Dec 2024 and arrested him for having allegedly helped a fugitive...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan24’26) –China’s defence ministry has announced Jan 24 that senior military officials Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli had been investigated for suspected serious discipline and law violations, reported China’s state news agency Xinhua Jan 24. “Following a review…...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan23’26) – UN rights experts have on Jan 22 expressed deep concern stemming from allegations of forced labour affecting Uyghur, Kazakh and Kyrgyz minority groups as well as Tibetans in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and across other...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan22’26) – Bhrikuti, Bhelsa Tritsun in Tibetan, is no longer in Nepal’s list of national luminaries because there was no proper research on her despite the fact that her contribution to Buddhism and Buddhist culture in Tibet as...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan21’26) – The two Gelug members of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE) have on Jan 20 offered their solemn penitence in keeping with a directive issued by the Lachi of the Drepung monastic university in the Doeguling...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan20’26) – The number of Tibetan students sent to study in classes especially set up for them in schools in various provinces of China has increased in recent years in keeping with Beijing’s intensified drive to Sinicize Tibet...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan19’26) – Despite a slew of socio-economic measures over the past one decade directed at encouraging the youth to marry and have children, and the married to have more children, China’s birth count plummeted to a record low...

OPINION Taking a recent journal report by Chinese scientists on the discovery and analysis of rare earth minerals near his birthplace in Tibet to task, Tenzin Jigmey* argues that scientific exploration must account for local impact and incorporate local...

Who was the first US President to write to the Dalai Lama and who the first to meet with him? Which US president became the first to call on China to open dialogue with the Dalai Lama, and which...

OPINION By obliging candidates to disclose their positions and be judged on them, the smartvote Tibet campaign shows at a glance comprehensive, comparable, and accessible information about all candidates at one place, enabling voters to know which of them...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan16’26) – Rather than being allowed to focus primarily on learning their mother tongue and the extensive religious texts which are written in it, China’s campaign for Sinicizing Tibetan Buddhism and making religion conform to its so-called socialist...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan15’26) – China appears to have adopted a sect-wise Sinicization of Tibetan Buddhism not only to make it conform to its so-called socialist principles but also to possibly assimilate it with Chinese Buddhism. A symposium on Chinese-Tibetan Buddhism...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan14’26) – An Indian lawmaker has on Jan 12 broached the idea of taking up in parliament the setting up of a Buddhist university at Dharamshala, which he represents as the member of its Lok Sabha chamber from...