(TibetanReview.net, Aug16’25) – Partly seen as a result of US President Donald Trump’s mercurial tariff policies on them, China and India appear to have become friendlier and more cooperative in the normalization of their bilateral ties in recent times....

(TibetanReview.net, Aug15’25) – While it is still not clear how many Tibetans affected by the devastating 7.1-magnitude earthquake, which hit Tibet’s Mt Everest county of Dingri, Shigatse City, on Jan 7 need to be rehoused, China’s official Xinhua news...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug15’25) – The US State Department’s 2024 Country Report on Human Rights, released on Aug 12, confirms ongoing and serious human rights abuses against the Tibetan people, including disappearances, torture, arbitrary arrest, and restrictions on religious freedom under...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug14’25) – Chinese police in Sangchu (Chinese: Xiahe) county of Kanlho (Gannan) prefecture, Gansu Province, were stated to have taken away the acting head lama of a prominent local monastery in a night raid in Dec 2024. The...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug14’25) – The 90th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama was marked in the parliament house of the Australian state of Victoria on Aug 13, hosted by the Victorian Parliamentary Friends of Tibet in collaboration with The...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug13’25) – The Election Commission of the Central Tibetan Administration at Dharamshala, India, has announced Aug 13 that the process for the next elections of the Sikyong and the Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE), both due in 2026,...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug13’25) – China said Aug 12 that it was suspending all diplomatic engagements with Czech President Petr Pavel, angered by his Jul 27 meeting with the Dalai Lama, which Beijing claims undermined its sovereignty and territorial integrity. China...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug12’25) – Emboldened by Thailand’s forced repatriation earlier this year of 40 Uyghur human rights fugitives under its pressure – and in the face of strong opposition from international human rights groups and UN rights experts – China...

OPINION As China marked the 66th anniversary of the launch of its “democratic reform” in Tibet and as the exile Tibetan community commemorated the 66th anniversary of the Tibetan national uprising, both with regard to the events of Mar...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug11’25) – The Xinjiang–Tibet Railway which China plans to begin building this year is among 45 major projects outlined in China’s Ministry of Transport’s 2025 Plan for Major Projects in Building China into a Transport Powerhouse, reported China’s...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug10’25) – China is to launch this year one of the world’s most ambitious railway projects with great strategic value that would link the resource-rich, occupied territories of East Turkestan (Chinese: Xinjiang) and Tibet by 2035. The report...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug10’25) – China has been in “illegal occupation” of approximately 38,000 sq km of Indian territory at the end of the Sino-India conflict of 1962, reported the PTI news agency Aug 9, citing a government response in Parliament....

(TibetanReview.net, Aug09’25) – An exhibition on authoritarian governments held in Thailand has been forced to remove materials about Beijing’s treatment of ethnic minorities and Hong Kong at China’s “request”, reported Reuters Aug 9. The move is seen as a...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug08’25) – As China intensifies its Sinicization drive across the Tibetan Plateau region under President Xi Jinping’s Han-centric assimilation plan for the new era, the top Tibetan leader of the Communist Party of China-state in Tibet autonomous region...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug08’25) – China said Aug 7 that more than 600 victims of the devastating 7.1-magnitude earthquake which hit Tibet’s Mt Everest county of Dingri on Jan 7 this year will move into new homes in the coming days....

(TibetanReview.net, Aug06’25) – A total of more than 2,100 cadres and professionals from across China had been deployed in Tibet autonomous region (TAR) in 10 batches since 2022, contributing to economic development, public services, and infrastructure improvement across the...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug05’25) – Marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), China’s top Tibetan official there has on Aug 5 sought to make the point that the Chinese government has the unquestionable decision-making authority...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug05’25) – The Supreme Court of India has on Aug 4 agreed to examine a long-pending plea by a section of Buddhists in the country, seeking total Buddhist control over the management and administration of the UNESCO World...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug04’25) – Beijing has long been known and reported in the United Sates and elsewhere to use student bodies affiliated with its embassies and consulates to control overseas Chinese students so that they don’t criticise or question the...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug03’25) – Nepal has on Aug 1 raised a host of grievances, including with a call for the restoration of the pre-2015-earthquake border trade patterns, during a border security meeting between the two sides in Zhangmu (Tibetan: Dram)...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug02’25) – China deployed armed forces equipped with live ammunition, established round-the-clock checkpoints, and conducted house-to-house searches, while banning religious observances, to prevent Tibetans across the Roof of the World from celebrating or otherwise marking the milestone 90th...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug01’25) – The postal service of the Kingdom of Belgium has issued a set of three postage stamps that commemorates the “Year of Compassion” dedicated by the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) in honour of His Holiness the 14th...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug01’25) – A meeting was held in Tibet’s capital Lhasa on Jul 28 to see off China’s 10th batch of so-called “Aid Tibet” talented cadres and to welcome the 11th, with the programme’s agenda being to implement the...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul31’25) – China’s $167 billion mega-dam in Tibet is more than anything else a tool to assimilate Tibet through economic integration and infrastructure dominance, reinforced by its potential to revive the country’s ailing economy and as a weapon...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul30’25) – Chinese authorities in Ngaba (or Ngawa, Chinese: Aba) county in Sichuan province have arrested some four weeks ago a Tibetan monk for making social media display of a picture of a religious hat to symbolise His...

OPINION A picture of a Tibetan mother with her baby tied to her back and shovelling the earth on a road construction site somewhere in Himalayan India in the 1960’s reminds Tenzin Kunga* of his grandmother’s grim, determined early...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul28’25) – The President of the Czech Republic, Mr Petr Pavel, has on Jul 27 called on the Dalai Lama in Leh, capital of India’s Union Territory of Ladakh, where the latter has been sojourning since Jul 12,...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul27’25) – Continuing his annual months-long tour of Tibet after arriving in Lhasa from Beijing on Jun 27, the Chinese government-appointed 11th Panchen Lama Gyaincain Norbu has spent 12 days in Chamdo City from Jul 7 and then...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul27’25) – The head of the Thiksey Monastery in Leh, the capital of India’s Union Territory of Ladakh, has donated a sizeable area of 62 kanals (7.5 acres) of land to the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) for the...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul26’25) – Gyaincain Norbu, appointed by China as the 11th Panchen Lama back in 1995 (after abducting and disappearing the incumbent Gedhun Choekyi Nyima), but not recognized by mainstream Tibetan Buddhists, has reiterated his call for aligning Tibetan...