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Hospital Management Training Held for Pan India Tibetan Primary Health Care Centres

Dharamshala: The Department of Health organised hospital management training for executive secretaries of Tibetan primary health care centres across India with an aim to provide competent workshops on the administration of hospitals and management of hospitals. The executive secretaries...

11th Local Tibetan Assembly of Dekyiling Settlement Sworn In

Dekyiling, Dehradun: The 11th Local Tibetan Assembly of Dekyiling Tibetan settlement was sworn in Saturday, 5 August. Pema Sangpo, Local Justice Commissioner of the  Northern region administered the oath of the newly elected members including its chair Pema Tenzin...

China’s economists under gag orders against airing worsening bad news

(TibetanReview.net, Aug06’23) – Communist Chinese leaders have long used censorship to hide their excesses as well as shortcomings and incompetence to keep the citizenry in the dark about what has really been going on in the country. When the...

Delegates of South Zone’s CRO Discuss Concerns of Tibetans with Dhanyakumar Jinnappa Gunde, Member of National Commission for Minorities

Bengaluru:  Shri Dhanyakumar Jinnappa Gunde, Hon’ble member of the National Commission for Minorities officially visited Bangalore to conduct a meeting with delegates of Minorities Communities to hear their grievances. During the meeting, he discussed Central law and State law...

Tibet House Japan Starts Three-month Tibetan Language Class

Tokyo: Tibet House Japan starts its annual three-month Saturday Tibetan language class on Sunday, 6 August 2023, at the office in Nishiochiai, Shinjukuku. Representative Dr. Arya Tsewang Gyalpo welcomed the students both in-persons and on online to the Tibetan...

Manipur: More central forces sent; Kuki People’s Alliance withdraws support to Biren's govt. 10 updates

Manipur violence: Central government deploys 800 additional security personnel as ethnic clashes continue for nearly 100 days

Chinese Government’s new religious guidelines spark concerns over assimilation efforts

By Tsering Dhundup DHARAMSHALA, August 6: The Chinese government is set to enforce new guidelines on religious activities within the People’s Republic of China (PRC), including occupied regions beginning September 1. The contentious regulations, recently revealed by Radio Free Asia...

Record-breaking tourism surge in Tibet raises concerns over cultural impact

By Tsering Dhundup DHARAMSHALA, August 6: The so called Tibet Autonomous Region has witnessed an unprecedented surge in tourism, with July recording an all-time high in passenger throughput since the inception of civil aviation in the region in 1965. While...

Record 132 Tibetan Buddhist nuns taking this year’s Geshema degree exams

(TibetanReview.net, Aug05’23) – A record 132 Tibetan Buddhist nuns are taking part in this year’s Geshema examinations, the highest academic degree in the Gelugpa tradition of Vajrayana Buddhism, as Tibetan Buddhism is called. The four-year exams for this year...

China Steps Up Political Control Over Religious Venues, Sermons and Activities

By Gao Feng for RFA Mandarin The ruling Chinese Communist Party is stepping up control over religious venues that will ban ties with overseas organizations while forcing them to deliver ‘patriotic’ education to believers. According to new rules taking...

G20’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Xi Jinping, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama

 -An appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi The 2023 India’s G20, New Delhi summit presidency would guide the framework under the theme of “One Earth, One Family, One Future” which means “The World is One Family”. Essentially, the theme...

Women Empowerment Desk Organises SGBV Training for Settlements and Schools

Dharamshala: Women Empowerment Desk organised SGBV Guideline Orientation, Internal Complaint Committee Training, Settlement SGBV Committee Training and Gender Sensitization workshop to Dolanji Bonshi Settlement, STS Dolanji, STS Herbertpur, STS Mussoorie, THS Mussoorie and THF Mussoorie from July 24th – August...

CCP’s massive spy agencies aims to wipe out “five poison’ at home and abroad

By Tsering Choephel DHARAMSALA, 5 Aug:  China has built expansive intelligence apparatus focused on silencing the ‘five poisons’ the Chinese Communist Party(CCP) sees as its top threats, according to British Intelligence as reported by Business Insider on Friday.

Saturday Shout-Out: CTA Civil Servant Karma Sopa Thinley

As a part of its shoutout campaign, Social Media Desk of the Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR) will be profiling a civil servant of the Central Tibetan Administration. This week we are pleased to profile Mr Karma...

Sinicization, patriotism to be China’s new mantra of religious control, come Sep 1

(TibetanReview.net, Aug04’23) – New guidelines on religious activities coming into effect on Sep 1 requires all places of worship in the People’s Republic of China to give top importance to the leadership and policies of the Communist Party of...

China targeting ‘Five Poisons’ that give its rulers sleepless nights

(TibetanReview.net, Aug04’23) – China has built an expansive intelligence apparatus, with tens of thousands of officers, focused on combating the “Five Poisons” that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sees as its top threats both from within the country and...

CRO Shimla Meets Secretary to Governor of Himachal and Discusses Land Lease

Shimla: The Chief Representative Officer of Shimla met with Shri Rakesh Kumar (IAS), Secretary to the Governor of Himachal Pradesh today and the two discussed potential ways forward in securing long pending land leases on a token amount and...

CTA President: Beijing’s “One China Policy has nothing to do with Tibet”

By Tsering Choephel DHARAMSALA, 4 Aug: The President of the Central Tibetan Administration(CTA) Penpa Tsering has called Beijing’s ‘One China Policy’ a widely misunderstood policy that has no relevance to Tibet.

Chinese Police Officers Physically Abuse Gonpo Kyi

On 1st August, yesterday Gonpo Kyi, the sister of reputed Tibetan political prisoner Dorjee Tashi, again protested peacefully by prostration, requesting to meet her brother. She wanted to meet him in person in front of the Drapchi prison in Lhasa,...

Xi Jinping’s Sinicization campaign launched in ethnic minorities’ own languages

(TibetanReview.net, Aug03’23) – It is the era of Xi Jinping in China these days and he is a required reading for everyone in the country for understanding the party’s policies, programmes and long-term goals and as an act of...

CRO Shimla Apprises Land Lease Issues to HP Governor Shri Shiv Pratap Shukla

Shimla: As requested, the Chief Representative Office (CRO), Shimla set up a general health fitness checkup for His Excellency Shiv Pratap Shukla, the Governor of Himachal Pradesh, by Dr. Jampa Wangmo, the Director of the Shimla Men-tsee-khang (Tibetan Medical...

 TCHRD Makes Submission for China’s UN Universal Periodic Review 

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) submitted a UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR) report ahead of the fourth periodic review of the People’s Republic of China in January 2024.  The submission outlined a number of concerns...

One Chinese Government Spy For Every Tibetan Monk

The Chinese authorities are imposing extreme restrictions on the movement and activity of monks by implementing various policies within the monasteries of Tibet. Under the various policies implemented by the Chinese government on Tibetans, these intense restrictions are imposed...