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One dead in Qinghai, hundreds still trapped on Mt Everest slopes in Tibet due to blizzard
(TibetanReview.net, Oct06’25) – Nearly 1,000 people have been trapped by a blizzard at campsites on Tibet’s eastern slopes of Mount Everest, blocking roads, following snowfall that began on Oct 3 evening and continued throughout the following day, according to...
Taiwanese Buddhists throng to receive transmissions from Dalai Lama
(TibetanReview.net, Oct05’25) – Some 5,800 devotees, including 1,300 from Taiwan, attended a ceremony for cultivating the awakening mind of bodhichitta and taking the bodhisattva vows conducted by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the Tsuglakhang on Oct 4. The...
ELECTIONS ’26: Mr Tseten Phuntsok, an Exemplary Chitue Candidate
OPINION Mr Tseten Phuntsok has a profound understanding of the three pillars of Tibetan democracy, unwavering commitment to the CTA, has consistently demonstrated fearless dedication to the unity of all Tibetans through his many years of service and activism,...
China’s Panchen to confer Kalachakra empowerment for prosperity of the party-state
(TibetanReview.net, Oct04’25) – China’s communist party regime is avowedly atheist; but this has not stopped it from issuing a notice saying the “11th Panchen Lama” it has foisted on the Tibetan people will confer in the coming days a...
China opens new high altitude testing facility for enhanced UAV capabilities in Tibet
(TibetanReview.net, Oct03’25) – Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are a significant component of the weaponry in the arsenal of any country’s modern warfare, as could be seen in the recent and ongoing armed conflicts, and China has opened a new,...
India-China flight services to resume later this month in cautious easing of bilateral tensions
(TibetanReview.net, Oct03’25) – India and China finally have a date for resuming direct flight services after a gap of five years that began from the global outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and continued as a result of...
China’s new ‘K-visa’ program seen as snub to its sea of graduate jobless youth
(TibetanReview.net, Oct02’25) – As a record 12.2 million new college graduates compete for jobs in a tough economy and as youth unemployment hovers close to 19%, China is facing an online backlash for the new “K-visa” program it launched...
MoU signed for Bhutan-India railway network
(TibetanReview.net, Oct01’25) – Landlocked Bhutan wedged between India and Chinese occupied Tibet is to be connected by railway transport system for the first time following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with New Delhi on Sep 29...
India to counter China’s ‘water bomb’ dam in occupied Tibet with mega dam of its own
(TibetanReview.net, Oct01’25) – India is to build in Arunachal Pradesh what would be its largest dam with a design to absorb any possible weaponized release of water from the world’s largest and potentially most dangerous dam China is building...
UN rights expert sees Paris museums’ censoring of ‘Tibet’ as violation of cultural rights, self-determination
(TibetanReview.net, Sep30’25) – The move by two well-known museums in Paris last year to censor the name ‘Tibet’ by replacing it with terms preferred by or agreeable to China, was criticized earlier this year by the UN expert in...
China faces barrage of calls to improve its record in Tibet etc at UN rights forum
(TibetanReview.net, Sep30’25) – Statements delivered at the ongoing, 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council, Geneva, by a number of democratic countries reflect a broad and unified call from the international community on China to improve its human...
President Xi sees religious crackdown as only way for ethnic, social harmony
(TibetanReview.net, Sep30’25) – Chinese President Xi Jinping has on Sep 29 called for further enactment of law and regulation, as well as stricter law enforcement for religious affairs in a push to sinicize religions and thereby ensure ethnic and...
China begins producing lithium from two major Tibet mines
(TibetanReview.net, Sep29’25) – China said Sep 28 that it had commenced producing lithium from two major salt lake mines in Tibet as questions about the genuineness of its claimed commitment to environmental protection came into sharp focus when the...
Demolishing Chinese Narratives on Tibet-Brick by Brick
BOOK REVIEW Challenging the Chinese art of manufacturing history of convenience, a book that convincingly exposes all those narratives which China is using as a weapon to make world accept its colonial occupation of Tibet, East Turkistan and South...
Mt Everest ‘Rising Dragon’ Ad-stunt mocks China’s environment protection claims
OPINION Shongka* blames China’s double standard in enforcing laws for the now much-criticized ‘Rising Dragon’ fireworks publicity stunt that has created a possibly irreversible environmental mess in Tibetan Himalayas’ Gyantse county. On September 19, 2025, the thin air high...
Australia criticizes China at UN forum for its Dalai Lama succession meddling
(TibetanReview.net, Sep25’25) – Australia has on Sep 23 expressed concern over continuing reports of human rights violations in Tibet including China’s interference in the recognition of reincarnation of His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the ongoing UN human rights...
Fireworks of Occupation: Arc’teryx and Cai Guo-Qiang’s Desecration of Tibet
LETTER TO THE EDITOR (TibetanReview.net, Sep23’25) Last week, the Canadian outdoor brand Arc’teryx, now owned by Chinese sportswear giant Anta, joined hands with Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang to stage a massive fireworks display in Gyantse, Tibet. The company presented...
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Politics of Sorrow: Unity and Allegiance Across Tibetan Exile, New York, 2025
Reviewing Tsering Wangmo Dhompa’s ‘The Politics of Sorrow’, Wangpo Tethong* asks the Tibetan youth to adopt an open mind in making sense of the bitter, regionally rooted disputes that continue to shape our exile politics today, for it is...
Arc’teryx’s Gyantse fireworks seen as devastating to Tibetan Himalayas’ wildlife
(TibetanReview.net, Sep23’25) – In deepening trouble for the Chinese-owned Canadian outdoor brand Arc’teryx and the famed visual artist Cai Guoqiang, the China Small Animal Protection Association has said Sep 23 that the former’s massive fireworks display publicity stunt in...
Online backlash prompts investigation of massive Shigatse fireworks publicity stunt due to environmental fears
(TibetanReview.net, Sep22’25) – Preparations for the environmentally destructive fireworks took more than a week, encompassed a mountainous path of 3,000 metres over a 5,000-meter altitude, involved extensive use of drones, and the spectacle was displayed before a large crowd...
Devotees from 11 Asian countries offer long-life prayers, cultural show tributes to Dalai Lama
(TibetanReview.net, Sep21’25) – An Assembly of Asian Buddhist Leaders and followers that took place in Dharamshala on Sep 20 unanimously declared His Holiness the Dalai Lama ‘The Universal Supreme Patriarch of the Buddhist World’ at a ceremony to pray...
In Occupation’s Shadow, Democracy Becomes Tibet’s Weapon
OPINION Aritra Banerjee* examines how Tibetans have made democracy and non-violence central to their identity and resistance, contrasting the repression inside Tibet with the democratic institutions established in exile. For more than seven decades, Tibet has endured one of...
$7.5 billion Tibet-China powerline to replace 12 million tons of coal consumption
(TibetanReview.net, Sep20’25) – It is not clear how much Tibet or Tibetans are going to benefit from it all, if at all, in real terms, but China has started building on Sep 16 an ultra-high voltage (UHV) power line...
Dalai Lama’s milestone 90th birthday marked in Swiss parliament
(TibetanReview.net, Sep19’25) – More than 50 members of the Swiss parliament took part in celebrations marking the milestone 90th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the country’s parliament building in Bern on Sep 17, said Tibet Bureau...
Exile Tibetan parliament concludes session with election of two add’l commissioners for 2026 elections
(TibetanReview.net, Sep19’25) – The penultimate regular session of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE) concluded on Sep 18 with the election of two Additional Election Commissioners to the Tibetan Election Commission, ahead of the launch next month of the...
Chinese int’l student advocating Tibet dialogue goes missing during trip home
(TibetanReview.net, Sep19’25) – In what is seen as the latest case of transnational repression, a young Chinese woman studying in France has disappeared some seven weeks ago while on a trip to visit her family in Hunan province. She...
Six UN experts question China for severely persecuting Tibetan teenager who protested for freedom
(TibetanReview.net, Sep18’25) – In another joint communication from the United Nations in Jul 2025, a group of six rights experts has asked China to account for the arbitrary detention, torture, ill-treatment, and imprisonment of a Tibetan teenager in 2015-16...
Prominent Chinese ‘dissident’ in New York has pleaded guilty to spying for Beijing
(TibetanReview.net, Sep17’25) – A prominent member of New York’s Chinese dissident community, granted asylum in 2002, has pleaded guilty Sep 16 to spying on his fellow activists on behalf of the Chinese government, reported the AP Sep 17. He...
China seeks greater influence at UN, but increasingly behind in its dues, pays minimal in voluntary contributions
(TibetanReview.net, Sep17’25) – While seeking to expand its influence at the UN, promoting itself as the leader of an alternative to the US-led world order, with US President Donald Trump increasingly stepping away from multilateral co-operation, China has been...
Tibetan monk remains disappeared since arrest by Chinese police in Lhasa in 2021
(TibetanReview.net, Sep16’25) – Chinese police in Tibet’s capital Lhasa arbitrarily took away a Tibetan Buddhist monk over four years ago, along with two others, and there has been no information about him so far despite desperate searches by his...
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