Shar Phak Khukta* argues that Tibetans remain ready to return to an autonomous homeland within the People’s Republic of China whereas the Chinese government keeps levelling false accusations and imposing impossible preconditions to prevent talks towards the realisation of...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr08’25) – A team of Chinese seismologists have published a study last month warning of a heightened risk of devastating earthquakes – like the one with magnitude 7.9 which struck Myanmar on Mar 28 – in and around...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr07’25) – After failing in repeated, at times hectic, efforts to unite the two major communist parties of Nepal, China is said to have embarked on a new drive. This is said to involve sidelining their current top...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr05’25) – Tibetans have sought to hold the Chinese government on its recently issued white paper claims to demand that the academic study and other uses of their mother tongue be restored. In its white paper on the...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr05’25) – As Radio Free Asia (RFA) announced this week that its radio broadcasts, including in the Tibetan language, had been drastically cut as transmissions were halted from relay stations owned or leased by the US government, a...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr04’25) – China said Mar 21 that it had started for the first time in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) a programme called “School-stationed Teaching Army Officers” (lob dar cha-doe mag pon) in Ser-nye (Chinese: Seni) district of Nagchu...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr04’25) – Amid rumours whether a prominent Tibetan Buddhist leader in Golog (Chinese: Guoluo) prefecture of Qinghai province who went missing eight months ago had been arrested, Chinese authorities have informed monks of his monastery on Apr 2...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr03’25) – The Drukpa Kagyu community of Tibetan Buddhists made a long-life offering to His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the Tsuglakhang, Dharamshala, on Apr 2. The ceremony was led by the Venerable Thuksey Rinpoché from Darjeeling and...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr03’25) – Following ramped up scrutiny on the education centres in the country in recent years over concerns that Beijing is using them to spread propaganda and spy on Chinese international students, six universities in Australia have quietly...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr02’25) – In a new approach to Sinicizing Tibet and its education system, China has set up a new experimental school in Tibet, with not only the entire school building and its resources but also its curriculum and...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr02’25) – Without addressing the underlying issues, China on Apr 1 condemned the United States for allegedly interfering in Tibet and China’s affairs after Secretary of State Marco Rubio had announced the day before visa restrictions on unspecified...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr01’25) – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has on Mar 31 announced the imposition of additional visa restrictions on Chinese officials involved in policies on access for foreigners to Tibetan areas under Chinese rule. “For far too...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr01’25) – Ahead of a year-long commemorative events marking his 90th birthday, a gathering of some 300 people set out on Mar 31 afternoon on a 100-km trek to retrace the route Taken by His Holiness the Dalai...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr01’25) – In what has been stated to be a profound demonstration of solidarity, a significant number of Indian Members of Parliament (MPs) have officially signed a Joint Declaration, recognizing the fundamental and exclusive right of His Holiness...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar31’25) – Three UN human rights experts have released a joint communication they had issued on Jan 21, expressing concern over the jailing of a 29-year-old Tibetan man for his activism against an environment-devastating sand mining work being...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar30’25) – In what may be a response to the Dalai Lama’s move, made known in his most recently published book, to have his reincarnation taking birth in the free world, without any possibility of interference by Beijing,...

Shongka*, a Tibetan living in exile, recalls how listening to the Tibetan services of VOA and RFA during his childhood in Tibet regaled the day, connected Tibetans with the outside world, and sustained hopes for freedom, no matter how...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar29’25) – With the issue of the continuance in office of the controversially ousted justice commissioners of the Tibetan Supreme Justice commission (TSJC) of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) out of the way by retirements or end of...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar29’25) – Bhutan which does not have diplomatic ties with China but has a long-standing, intractable border dispute with it has been criticized for what is seen as support for Beijing’s Sinicization drive in Tibet, when it referred...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar28’25) – China celebrated on Mar 28 the 66th anniversary of what it calls Tibetan “serfs emancipation day”, marking its unilateral termination of the 17-point Agreement of 1951 which promised a modicum of autonomy for Tibet, with a...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar28’25) – Radio Free Asia (RFA) which is mandated to transmit uncensored news to millions of people living under authoritarian regimes in Asia, including Tibet and China, has filed a lawsuit on Mar 27, demanding the restoration of...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar27’25) – Releasing its 2025 Annual Report, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has on Mar 25 included China among 16 countries that it has asked the Secretary of State to designate as Countries of...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar27’25) – As officials from the two countries met in Beijing on Mar 26, India’s External affairs minister S Jaishankar has said in South Korea that the two sides were working to rebuild ties damaged by the Galwan...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar26’25) – In more news from more research on the phenomenon and effects of climate change in the Tibetan Plateau region, a UNESCO report published this month has said glacier areas in the People’s Republic of China (PRC),...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar25’25) – Climate change over the Tibetan Plateau in the past 36 years has not only created risks for the local residents but also for China’s major infrastructure projects such as the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, reported China’s official chinadaily.com.cn...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar24’25) – China talked about formulating for Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) a law on what it called “promoting ethnic unity and progress to forge a strong sense of national identity” for the purpose of “reinforcing the Chinese people...

Prof Tenzin Dorjee* contends that what emerges as clear from the Dalai Lama’s most recently published book, Voice for the Voiceless, is that despite its waiting game and resolve to install its own so-called 15th reincarnation of him, the...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar23’25) – As the threat of global climate collapse grows, increasingly raising dangers of a catastrophic food crisis across the world, alarmed China is considering a plan to turn the increasingly wetting up and warming Tibetan Plateau into...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar22’25) – A total of 28 European countries has on Mar 20 expressed “very serious” concern on the human rights situation in the People’s Republic of China, particularly in Tibet and Xinjiang (East Turkistan) and on other issues,...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar21’25) – Wu Yingjie, former Party chief of Tibet autonomous region (TAR), has pleaded guilty to bribery charges during a trial in Beijing on Mar 20, reported China’s official chinadaily.com.cn Mar 20. The report cited prosecutors as saying...