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Death toll info censored, access denied to the Tibet earthquake sites, casualties feared to be much higher than officially reported 126
(TibetanReview.net, Jan12’25) – Unofficial sources have been stated to suggest that at least 100 people have died in one township as a result of the devastating earthquake that hit Tibet’s Mt Everest county of Dingri in Shigatse City on Jan...
‘China’, ‘Xizang’ absent in India’s Tibet earthquake condolence message
(TibetanReview.net, Jan11’25) –Pro-China countries like Pakistan have been accused of using the tragic earthquake that hit Tibet’s Mt Everest county of Dingri on Jan 7 morning to help spread China’s “Xizang” propaganda. And they addressed their messages of condolences...
Update: Rescuers widen search as number of injured from Mt Everest county earthquake rises to 337
(TibetanReview.net, Jan10’25) –More than three days after an up to 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck the Mt Everest county of Dingri in southern Tibet’s Shigatse city, it is still not clear how many people are missing. While the official death toll...
Update: Number of reported dead, injured from Tibet earthquake unchanged; no info on missing; 61,500 people affected
(TibetanReview.net, Jan09’25) –As Chinese authorities called of search for survivors from the devastating earthquake just a day after it hit Dingri County near Mt Everest in southern Tibet’s Shigatse city on Jan 7 morning, the official figures have remained...
Prayers and call for transparent info sharing on Tibet earthquake
(TibetanReview.net, Jan09’25) –As the true scale of the devastation caused by the earthquake which hit southern Tibet’s Dingri county on Jan 7 morning remains unknown due to China’s denial of access to independent media, exile Tibetans have been holding...
Tibet earthquake raises a big question mark on China’s Yarlung Tsangpo super dam project
(TibetanReview.net, Jan08’25) –The devastating earthquake that hit Dingri County in Tibet on Jan 7 morning, killing a total of at least 126 people, injuring 188 others and destroying or damaging thousands of homes, has prompted geologists to renew their...
China has world’s second largest lithium reserves after new Xinjiang-Tibet discoveries
(TibetanReview.net, Jan08’25) –Thanks to recent new discoveries in occupied territories of Tibet and Xinjiang, China, the world largest consumer of lithium, has the second largest known reserve of the mineral, trailing only Chile. Lithium is a critical element for...
Devastating southern Tibet earthquake kills at least 126, injures 188 others
(TibetanReview.net, Jan07’25) –A devastating earthquake measuring between 6.8 and 7.1 magnitudes has jolted Dingri county, home to the base camp of Mount Everest, in southern Tibet’s Shigatse city this morning, killing a total of 126 people, injuring 188 others,...
With over 20 million tons of new discoveries, China looks to establish Tibet as a world-class copper resource hub
(TibetanReview.net, Jan06’25) –China said Jan 6 that it had discovered more than 20 million tons of new copper resource on the Tibetan Plateau since 2021, with Tibet being poised to become a world-class copper resource hub. Since the beginning...
China claims world’s largest dam in Tibet will help, not harm downstream nations
(TibetanReview.net, Jan06’25) –China has on Jan 6 responded to India’s raising of concern that its approval of a plan to build a super dam in Tibet on the Yarlung Tsangpo just before it enters India – where the river...
China carrying out compulsory army conscription of India-border Tibetans?
(TibetanReview.net, Jan05’25) –China has invoked its military service law to mandate Tibetan males in the India-border county of Ruthog (Chinese: Ritu) in Ngari (Ali) prefecture, Tibet, to report for military conscription, reported the Tibetan-language tibettimes.net Jan 4, citing a...
India has raised concern over China’s Yarlung Tsangpo Dam approval
(TibetanReview.net, Jan04’25) –India has expressed concern Jan 3 over China’s approval of a plan to build a mega dam on the Yalung Tsangpo, close to its Arunachal Pradesh border, urging it to ensure that the interests of downstream states...
India protests China’s inclusion of Ladakh land areas in two new Xinjiang counties
(TibetanReview.net, Jan04’25) –India said Jan 3 that it had lodged a “solemn protest” with China over its creation of two new counties in Hotan prefecture of Xinjiang, saying they included territories that are parts of its Union Territory of...
China celebrates propaganda 30th anniversary UNESCO listing of Potala palace
(TibetanReview.net, Jan03’25) –The iconic Potala palace is a propaganda mascot for China’s claim that it protects Tibetan culture in the face of allegations that it is destroying the living culture of the Tibetan people: their ethnography and ethnicity, language,...
Tibetan children, parents under severe Sinicization compliance requirements during winter break
(TibetanReview.net, Jan03’25) –As schools in Tibet broke for their winter vacation, Chinese authorities have implemented new restrictions on Tibetan children, as well as parents, banning private Tibetan-language lessons and, instead, requiring them to take ones that focus on Mandarin...
Dalai Lama leaves Dharamshala for extended stay at the Bylakuppe Tibetan settlements
(TibetanReview.net, Jan03’25) –Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, departed from his Dharamshala residence this morning with his entourage for his scheduled trip to the Tibetan settlements at Bylakuppe Town, Karnataka state, for what has been described as an...
Exile leader sees China’s sanctioning of Tibetan activists in Canada as escalation of transnational repression
(TibetanReview.net, Jan03’25) –Tibetan Sikyong Mr Penpa Tsering has accused China of targeting Tibetan voices in free societies following its announcement of sanctions on Dec 24 against Canadian entities and individuals that included the Canada Tibet Committee (CTC) and five...
Top Ladakh official visits Bylakuppe ahead of Dalai Lama’s arrival
(TibetanReview.net, Jan01’25) –The Chairman of the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) at Leh, Mr Tashi Gyalson, has paid a two-day visit to the Tibetan settlement at Bylakuppe in Mysuru district of Karnataka state, beginning Dec 29. He was...
Both Dharamshala and Beijing are laudatory in their Jimmy Carter remembrance
(TibetanReview.net, Jan01’25) –Both the exile Tibetan leadership and China have heaped praises on former US President Jimmy Carter following news of his death while under hospice care on Dec 29 at 100 years of age. The single-term (1977 to...
Five years on, China still rejects WHO pleas for requested Covid origins data
(TibetanReview.net, Dec31’24) –The World Health Organization (WHO) has on Dec 30 invoked “moral and scientific imperative” to implore China to share data and access to help understand the origins of Covid-19, five years on from the start of the...
China completes building highest-altitude, largest-capacity hydropower project in Yellow River basin in Qinghai
(TibetanReview.net, Dec30’24) –China said Dec 30 that it was set to complete today the final testing of the second unit of the Maerdang Hydropower Station, the highest-altitude and largest-capacity hydropower project under construction in the Yellow River basin, located...
Corruption galore in China’s new detention system targeting the corrupt, dissent
(TibetanReview.net, Dec30’24) –China has built or expanded more than 200 specialized detention facilities nationwide under a new law to interrogate suspects ensnared in Xi Jinping’s widening anti-corruption drive as the Chinese leader extends his crackdown beyond the ruling Communist...
China taking advantage of global isolation of Myanmar to plunder its rare earth wealth
(TibetanReview.net, Dec29’24) –An environmental catastrophe is unfolding in plain sight in Myanmar’s Kachin state, with massive Chinese excavators tearing into the earth, while chemical processors extract precious rare earth elements, leaving behind a wasteland of toxic pools and barren...
China creates a new county made up largely of India-claimed Aksai Chin
(TibetanReview.net, Dec29’24) –Even as the two countries struggle, with some amount of success in recent times, to normalize their bilateral relations in the face of longstanding border issues, China has created two new counties in Xinjiang of which one...
Estonian Parliament Speaker conveys Christmas letters of support for top exile Tibetan leaders
(TibetanReview.net, Dec28’24) –A delegation of Tibet supporters in the Estonian Parliament is on a visit to Dharamshala and has met with His Holiness the Dalai Lama as well as top leaders of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), presenting each...
China claims its highly dangerous, world’s biggest hydroelectric dam in Tibet will pose no serious threat to downstream India
(TibetanReview.net, Dec28’24) –After reporting its approval of a plan to build “a dam” close to India’s border in occupied Tibet’s Yarlung Tsangpo, and it was later revealed by various news reports to be for the world’s largest hydroelectric project...
China deploys troops to enforce stringent new restrictions at biggest centre for Tibetan Buddhist study
(TibetanReview.net, Dec27’24) –China has deployed hundreds of additional troops at the world’s biggest centre for the study of Tibetan Buddhism located in Serthar (Chinese: Seda) County of Kardze (Ganzi) prefecture, Sichuan province, to enforce severe new restrictions in the...
Buddha’s birthplace a geopolitical playing field for China?
(TibetanReview.net, Dec27’24) –Lumbini, the birthplace in Nepal of the Buddha Shakyamuni, has become a geopolitical playing field for China despite protests from local citizens who remain anxious to preserve its Buddhist and spiritual significance above all else, according to...
Top political adviser’s exhibition visit shows China is actively working on Dalai Lama reincarnation issue
(TibetanReview.net, Dec26’24) –In what is seen as a move to bring greater focus on Beijing’s plan for appointing a candidate of its own as the “reincarnation” of the current Dalai Lama, China’s top political adviser has made a rare...
China approves the building of world’s largest dam in Tibet, raising serious ecological, geostrategic concerns
(TibetanReview.net, Dec26’24) –The Chinese government has approved the construction of a hydropower project in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet, reported China’s official Xinhua news agency Dec 25, giving no information on its name, power generation...