(TibetanReview.net, Apr17’26) – Following China’s adoption last month of its law on so-called promoting ethnic unity and progress, mandating the predominance of Mandarin learning and use across the PRC, monks in Tibet are now required to take time off...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr17’26) – Russia, whose war of aggression against Ukraine is said to be sustained by China’s help, has caused the cancellation of a Buddhist festival in capital Moscow after it deported on Apr 8 a group of Tibetan...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr16’26) – China said Apr 15 that its Qinghai–Tibet Railway had transported more than a hundred million metric tons of goods in and out of Tibet autonomous region since its opening in 2006, with the growth in outbound...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr15’26) – China appears to be acting as if it is in danger of losing control over Nepal after the marginalisation of the country’s communist parties in the aftermath of the recent general election results. Despite assurances by...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr15’26) – As on the previous occasions, China has on Apr 14 defended its latest move, the sixth since 2017, to assign “standardised” Chinese names to places in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. It has also asserted...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr14’26) –Can the world’s largest dam be designed and built to withstand a catastrophic earthquake of the kind the Himalayan region is all too familiar with, including the one which struck the Mt Everest County of Dingri in...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr13’26) –For the sixth time since 2017, China has released a list of what it calls “standardized” names for places in Arunachal Pradesh to assert its territorial claim over the Indian state which New Delhi has dismissed as...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr12’26) –After intimidating Taiwan with a series of highly provocative war games over the stand of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on independence, China has on Apr 12 unveiled 10 new incentive measures for the democratically self-ruled...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr12’26) – A Bollywood film by super star Salman Khan which was previously titled as “Battle of Galwan”, and even partially shot in Ladakh, is now being reshot 40% to reflect India’s new sensitivity towards Beijing amid improving...

OPINION Tenzin Norsang* expresses dismay that despite an official policy against it, and a national philosophy of compassion, corporal punishment continues to be prevalent in exile Tibetan schools and urges administrators, teachers, parents, and everyone else concerned about it...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr10’26) – A Tibetan man, now in his late 50s, imprisoned for 18 years after leading a language rights protest in a historically Tibetan area of Sichuan province, China, in 2007 has emerged from jail last month in...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr10’26) – As its relations with Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) remains fraught over the latter’s perceived strengthening of push for independence, China has invited the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) leader Cheng Li-wun and made clear its desire...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr09’26) – Following visits earlier by multiple delegates from the Communist Party of China (CPC) and a congratulations meeting from Chinese ambassador Zhang Maoming on Apr 7, Nepal has assured Beijing that its stance towards China, including the...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr08’26) – Anyone who is not a “useful idiot” of China knows that Beijing’s so-called “whole process people’s democracy” to describe the country’s government system in glowing terms lacks any substance, and is, in fact, nothing but a...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr07’26) – China’s mega projects in ecologically fragile, seismically active Tibet, especially those meant for generating electric power and providing mass transport services, have always been controversial, all the more because they also involve what is seen as...

OPINION Ahead of the Tibetan public voting on Apr 26 to elect the 45-member, 18th Tibetan Parliament in Exile, Tenzin Norbu* pitches for candidates who support the middle way policy for the sake of ensuring an orderly functioning of...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr06’26) – While 32 people face charges for a $20 million fraud in the widely reported multi-year fake Mt Everest rescue scandal, authorities have clarified that there is “no evidence” that guides intentionally poisoned clients to engineer altitude...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr06’26) – Following central government guidelines citing security and data privacy concerns, the government of Delhi is to replace over 140,000 Chinese-made CCTV cameras, reported economictimes.com Apr 2. More than half of Delhi’s CCTV surveillance network comprises Chinese-origin...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr05’26) – To most Tibetans having any awareness about the place, Upper Mustang is a historically Tibetan area in Nepal where a clandestine guerrilla base was established in the early 1960s to launch cross-border attacks on the Chinese...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr04’26) – Tibet was an independent country when Great Britain ruled India and had a political officer posted in Sikkim, then also an independent kingdom, to conduct diplomacy with it, highlights an exhibition that opened Apr 3 at...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr03’26) – The dangers of climbing the world’s highest peak, Mt Everest, posed by nature and its elements are pretty well-known. However, other dangers also appear to lurk. Nepal has charged 32 people involved in facilitating climbs and...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr02’26) – China premiered on Mar 28 a Sinicized Tibetan tap dance drama in Beijing to celebrate the 67th anniversary of its full annexation of Tibet. The event came as Beijing implemented a new ethnic unity law which...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr02’26) – India has decided to block several Chinese manufacturers from selling internet-connected CCTV cameras in the country starting Apr 1 as part of a major push to strengthen digital security and reduce dependence on foreign surveillance technology,...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr01’26) – A Tibetan Buddhist monk who remained disappeared since his arrest by Chinese police in Tibet’s capital Lhasa more than four and half years ago has been found jailed for seven years after a secret trial, reported...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr01’26) – As in past many years, save during the Covid-19 pandemic period of 2020-22, the Dalai Lama is to visit Ladakh this summer. The exiled spiritual leader of Tibet gave his consent after a delegation from the...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar31’26) – That last biannual session of the 17th Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE) concluded on Mar 30 with the adoption of an over Indian Rs. 3.4 billion budget for the financial year Apr 2026-Mar 2027, and new...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar30’26) – The Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic has set up a Parliament Tibet Support Group following the election held in early Oct 2025, said the Central Tibetan Administration on its Tibet.net website...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar29’26) – China has marked on Mar 28 the 67th anniversary of its termination of what was akin to a one-country-two-systems promise it had made to Tibet in 1951 with the raising of its Red Star flag before...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar29’26) – China has welcomed Nepal’s new Prime Minister Balendra Shah as it seeks to recast two decades of Nepal policy anchored in the country’s Communist stalwarts KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda”, who sought to...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar28’26) –While imposing Mandarin learning from pre-school education onwards as a coercive measure with an agenda to assimilate the Tibetan people envisaged by China’s recently adopted ethnic unity and progress law is condemned, learning the language as a...