Kathmandu: A month-long winter cultural training for Tibetan students from India and Nepal, organised by the Choejor Tibetan Settlement Office in Nepal and the Himalayan Buddhist Library and Cultural Centre, was concluded successfully on 27 January 2024. This month-long...

Tenzingang: Tibetan Settlement Officer Rapten Tsering attended the grand inaugural ceremony of Thupten Shedrup Gephelling Monastery at Buddha Heritage Park in Yokmuzor, Arunachal Pradesh, on 28 January 2024, upon invitation from the former speaker of the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative...

Hunsur: After the Karnataka state government decided to sanction funds to build the road around Gyudmed monastery and repair the main road from Gurupura to M/O village, the project began on 28 January 2024. Before the project could take...

Sikyong Penpa Tsering, accompanied by Representative Sonam Frasi, reached Riga, Latvia, on Sunday afternoon, 28 January 2024 following some more media engagements and meeting with an Estonian Think Tank during the weekend. Janis Skuja, chair of TSG in Latvia,...

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...

During China's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, twenty UN member states raised significant concerns regarding China's human rights abuses in Tibet, doubling the number from the 2018 review. Issues highlighted included coercive...

(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...

Dharamshala: As part of the V-TAG initiative, Department of Information and International Relations-CTA (DIIR) organised a ‘Tibet Advocacy Training and Youth Capacity Building program’ for a group of V-TAG members from North India to enhance personal skills in Advocacy,...

Finland: On 26 January 2025, in Helsinki, Finland was another successful day for Tibet advocacy. Sikyong Penpa Tsering and Representative Sonam Frasi were received at the Helsinki Port by Finnish TSG Chair Erja Varis. The Tibetan delegation met with...

Wave of online scepticism about two stories of survival and success in China point to deeper public dissatisfaction.

(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....