Sakkar Tashi, a Tibetan refugee living in Belgium since 2004, remains one of the most widely followed Tibetans on social media. Source

In Lubra, Nepal’s last Bon village, climate-driven floods are destroying homes and land, endangering ancient traditions.

The system, supposedly meant to aid Tibet, actually serves to sideline local Tibetan personnel while boosting the careers of Han Chinese cadres from other regions.

Beijing gathers Tibet experts to reaffirm that research must serve ideology and shape global narratives. The post Tibet Scholars Urged to Use Marxism to Promote Beijing’s Agenda first appeared on Bitter Winter.

To win the global war of words over Tibet, China’s western autonomous region that repeatedly makes international headlines, Beijing must stop fighting the West’s algorithms and start “dancing” with them. That was the blunt assessment of Zachary Lundquist, an...

A new study provides a crucial baseline: the first global map of where these fungal networks are and how much of them exists.

India’s new ambassador to China has paid his first visit to Tibet in the latest sign of thawing relations between the two Asian neighbours. Vikram Doraiswami – who speaks Chinese and took up the post in Beijing last month...

China’s national government policies on energy and economic development are changing pastoral life on the Tibetan Plateau.

In this episode of “The Election Observer” podcast, we are turning the tables as we talk to people behind the scenes where they share anecdotes and reflections on these recent engagements through a lighthearted conversation. The post Asian Elections:...

Tibetan spiritual leader had full knee replacement surgery on his right knee in New York in 2024.

China has discovered a new source of high-purity quartz in its western Tibet autonomous region, potentially reducing its reliance on imports of the critical material to make solar panels and semiconductors. High-purity quartz is a gold standard manufacturing material...

Construction on the Tibetan plateau of some of the Earth’s most powerful optical telescopes is putting China on track to house the world’s biggest astronomy base by the mid-2030s, according to project scientists. Deng Licai, lead scientist for site...

Today's news: As the United States and Iran exchange fire, sirens blare in Kuwait and Bahrain. In his meeting with Myanmar's Cardinal Bo, Pope Leo reiterates his appeal to "not forget" the Southeast Asian country. The former head of...

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation holds a candlelight vigil at 8 p.m. ET on June 4 to commemorate the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 4, 1989, when the Chinese communist regime crushed a massive pro-democracy movement in China...

Chinese academics specialising in Tibet must find more creative ways to shape the global conversation about the region while remaining strictly aligned with the Communist Party’s ideology. That was the message Li Ganjie, head of the Communist Party’s United...

This season, climbers attempted the 8,849-metre peak from the Nepal side after China closed the northern route through Tibet

A revered statue’s grounds become a horseracing field. Cultural erasure in historical Tibet now proceeds through construction as much as demolition and removal. The post From Buddha to Racetrack: A Sacred Site in Drakgo Is Rewritten by Force first...

Tibetan spiritual leader Tenzin Gyatso received his first Grammy award for his spoken-word album.

Chinese police of Labrang Township in Sangchu County took into custody Jamyang Tashi, a Tibetan Buddhist monk from Labrang Tashikhyil Monastery. Source

Perhaps you should spend a little more time on Flightradar24. Here’s what you might learn... The post Looking to the sky reveals much about what’s happening on the ground appeared first on Monocle.

Conservative MP Shuvaloy Majumdar is warning that the Chinese regime is suppressing Canada’s creative industries, as Culture Minister Marc Miller concluded a three-day visit to China in an effort to advance Canada’s commercial cultural and diplomatic relations in the...

The Tibetan movement has long been dependent on the personal moral authority of the Dalai Lama. In a post-Dalai Lama world, the Central Tibetan Administration will need to step up. 

Penpa Tsering on Wednesday was sworn in for a second consecutive term as the president of Tibet’s government-in-exile following his re-election earlier this year.Tsering, 58, h...

Penpa Tsering has been sworn in for a second term as the president of Tibet’s government-in-exile based in India

Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama prayed as the leader of the elected goverment of Tibetans in exile was sworn in for a second term on Wednesday. The India-based Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) — condemned by China as “nothing...