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Top US diplomat assures continued Tibet support as USAID-cuts severely dent CTA’s budget

(TibetanReview.net, Mar20’25) – The Trump administration’s decision to cancel 83% of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) programs across the world has severely dented the annual budget of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) which is reportedly 40-50% dependent...

China expresses delight at potential exit of VOA, RFA; judge halts closure of USAID

(TibetanReview.net, Mar19’25) – China has expressed delight over the fact that US President Donald Trump has moved to cut public funding for news outlets – along with others – Voice of America and Radio Free Asia, which have long...

President Xi called for preserving distinctive culture in ethnic regions?

(TibetanReview.net, Mar18’25) – China’s state media said Mar 18 that president Xi Jinping had called for the preservation of the distinctive culture of people in areas with large ethnic minority populations, which appears to be in stark contrast with...

Tibetans survived globe’s last glacial maximum, belying previous assumptions

(TibetanReview.net, Mar17’25) – Recent findings have belied scientific assumptions thus far that humans could not have survived on the Tibetan Plateau during the globe’s last glacial maximum, reported the ndtv.com Mar 17, citing the New Scientist. The report said...

VOA, RFA put on Trump-Musk chopping block

(TibetanReview.net, Mar16’25) – President Donald Trump has on Mar 14 signed an executive order, aimed at gutting the parent agency which runs the US government-funded media outlets Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Asia, among others, in his administration’s latest step...

Dingri earthquake hit 681 villages, 47 requiring complete rebuilding

(TibetanReview.net, Mar15’25) – In yet further details about the earthquake which devastated Dingri and several other counties in Tibet on Jan 7 morning, China has said Mar 14 that tens of thousands of households in hundreds of villages needed...

China availing Tibet’s clean energy for significant help in cutting carbon dioxide emissions

(TibetanReview.net, Mar15’25) – The transfer of clean energy, mainly from hydropower sources, from Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) over the last ten years has helped China to reduce the use of standard coal by around 4.85 million tonnes and cut...

UK-based global think tank awards its 2025 visionary governance award to HH the Dalai Lama

(TibetanReview.net, Mar14’25) – Gold Mercury International, a UK-based global Governance Think Tank Envisioning the Sustainable Future of People and Planet, has decided to award its Gold Mercury Award 2025 to His Holiness the Dalai Lama for Advancing a Global...

German intel believed Covid likely started in Wuhan lab, natural origin theory now lacks credibility

(TibetanReview.net, Mar14’25) – China may continue to deny it vehemently, only to reinforce the suspicion by denying proper cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO) in the latter’s investigation of the source of the Covid-19 pandemic virus. It has...

Joined by Chinese, other supporters, Tibetans rally across Europe on their 66th uprising day

(TibetanReview.net, Mar13’25) – Apart from Tibetans from across Europe and foreign political leaders and prominent public figures, more than a hundred Chinese people took part in the Fifth edition of the annual “Europe Stands With Tibet Rally” held to...

Former Tibet party boss Wu Yingjie being tried for massive bribe-taking

(TibetanReview.net, Mar13’25) – After being put under investigation in Jun 2024, expelled from the party the following month, and arrested in Dec 2024, former Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) party secretary Mr Wu Yingjie has formally been charged with bribe-taking,...

China rejects Dalai Lama, asserts might-is-right claim to appoint his reincarnation

(TibetanReview.net, Mar12’25) – Calling Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, a “political exile” with “no right to represent the Tibetan people,” atheist communist China has sought to make it clear Mar 11 that nothing will stop it from...

Dalai Lama explains why Beijing is a poor candidate for hosting his reincarnation

(TibetanReview.net, Mar11’25) – Bemoaning the fact that Tibet, or, for that matter, the entire People’s Republic of China is not free, the Dalai Lama has said his reincarnation will be born in the “free world”, outside the confines of...

Tibetans rally global support on their 66th National Uprising Day

(TibetanReview.net, Mar10’25) – As China sang self-praises on its decades-long rule and policies in Tibet with vows to strengthen its assimilation drive there in the name of Sinicization during the ongoing ‘Two Sessions’ conclave in Beijing, exile Tibetans and...

‘Expanding lakes on Tibetan Plateau portend widespread societal and ecological impacts’

(TibetanReview.net, Mar09’25) – While lakes in many parts of the world have lost water over the past three decades, leading to severe droughts, the number and size of those in the northern part of the Tibetan Plateau, referred to...

Chinese assets in Missouri to be targeted to recover $24 billion Covid damage award

(TibetanReview.net, Mar09’25) – A federal District Court in the US has awarded the state of Missouri damages to the tune of $24 billion in a lawsuit against China for hoarding protective equipment while simultaneously providing misleading information about the...

China vows to continue its disputed, controversial education policy in Tibet

(TibetanReview.net, Mar08’25) – China has on Mar 7 vowed to continue its controversial education policy in occupied Tibet, claiming its focus is on civic education without addressing claims that it coercively separates Tibetan children from their parents and society...

China signals more hardline religious policy at the ‘Two Sessions’ political conclave

(TibetanReview.net, Mar08’25) – The fourth most senior official in China’s ruling Communist Party, who oversees the country’s national political advisory body, has called for efforts to “ensure law-based management of religious affairs” to make sure that religious activities are...

India sees China-hand in Tibetan asylee in Australia’s Dalai Lama threat

(TibetanReview.net, Mar07’25) – India has put a Tibetan residing in Adelaide, Australia, under a prohibitory order under its new criminal code called Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) after he issued an online video threat calling for the assassination of the...

India rehabilitating border villages it evacuated during 1962 war with China

(TibetanReview.net, Mar07’25) – A resurgent India is rehabilitating the border villages it evacuated during the 1962 war with China, with the matter being highlighted during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the Tibet-border state of Uttarakhand. The Prime Minister...

China vows ‘high pressure’ on Tibetan ‘separatists’ during ongoing ‘Two Sessions’ in Beijing

(TibetanReview.net, Mar06’25) – Delegates from Tibet Autonomous Region attending China’s ongoing annual “Two Sessions” political conclave which opened on Mar 6 have sung the praise of Chinese rule there and vowed to keep “high pressure” on alleged separatists, according...

China cites controversial Yarlung Tsangpo dam among moves to tackle climate change

(TibetanReview.net, Mar06’25) – China has on Mar 5 cited the geologically highly dangerous and geostrategically ominous hydropower dam it is building near India’s border in Himalayan Tibet on the Yarlung Tsangpo river among a package of major projects it...

Sikyong Penpa Tsering says not all US assistance for Tibetans may have been paused

(TibetanReview.net, Mar05’25) – President Donald J Trump’s Jan 20 decision to pause all US foreign development assistance programmes for 90 days pending a comprehensive review has affected a major portion of US aid programs for Tibetans, but possibly not...

China says Dingri earthquake damaged 79 schools, 3 required reconstruction

(TibetanReview.net, Mar05’25) – The devastating earthquake which shook Tibet’s Mt Everest county of Dingri and several other neighbouring counties on Jan 7 morning, killing at least 126 people, and displacing 120,000, and damaging to varying degrees nearly 80 schools,...

China honours Galwan valley clash commander even as it seeks better India ties

(TibetanReview.net, Mar05’25) – Both China and India present each other as the aggressor in the Galwan valley clash in mid-Jun 2020 which claimed the lives of 20 Indian troops and at least four from the Chinese side. Hence, any...

UN rights chief alarmed by situation in Tibet, urges int’l pressure on China

(TibetanReview.net, Mar04’25) – The UN human rights chief has said Mar 3 he was “concerned about the impact of education policy and the restriction of freedom of expression and religion in the Tibet Autonomous Region” and vowed to continue...

The road China built to invade Tibet is still one of world’s most dangerous

(TibetanReview.net, Mar03’25) – China began building the Sichuan-Tibet Highway in 1950 to effectuate its invasion and occupation rule over Tibet and it still remains one of the world’s most challenging and dangerous roads. Many people are thought to have lost...

After consistently citing 61,500, China now says Dingri earthquake affected 120,000 Tibetans

(TibetanReview.net, Mar02’25) – China said Jan 9, and maintained throughout since then, that a total of 61,500 people were affected by the devastating earthquake which shook Tibet’s Mt Everest county of Dingri and several other counties on Jan 7...

China impersonated Tibetans, Arunachal scribes, activists to net-target Dalai Lama, India

(TibetanReview.net, Mar01’25) – China created fictitious profiles of Tibetan exiles as well as journalists and activists from Arunachal Pradesh and used them to target Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, and spread discontent against the Indian government’s hydroelectric...

US reaffirms support in Secretary of State Rubio’s Losar greetings to Tibetans

(TibetanReview.net, Mar01’25) – Amid the tumults of government downsizing and shut down of most of the USAID foreign aid, which has also affected Tibetan projects, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has extended wishes to Tibetans on Losar, their...