(TibetanReview.net, Feb28’25) – After defending its action in the face of Tibetan and Tibet-group protests and others’ criticisms, the state-funded British Museum had removed the term “Xizang” from its labelling of Tibetan artifacts in its Silk Roads exhibition which...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb28’25) – The Tibetan Plateau, known as the “Roof of the World” and the “Third Pole of the Earth”, hosts exceptionally rare plants, with over one-third of them found nowhere else on Earth, reported China’s official chinadaily.com.cn Feb...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb26’25) –Scholars and the Tibetan community in Switzerland have expressed dismay over the report that the University of Bern, the last academic institution in Switzerland offering courses in Tibetology, plans to shut down its Tibetan culture and classical...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb25’25) – Did they make common cause with the Communist Chinese and joined its ranks not because they believed in their ideology or otherwise felt the Tibetan people’s wellbeing to be better ensured by cooperating with these outside...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb24’25) – Even as its foreign minister met with his Indian counterpart on Feb 21 in South Africa, and the latter spoke of “some notable developments” in the two countries’ bid to improve their ties, China’s online media...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb24’25) – A student group in the southern plains of Nepal torched on Feb 22 a pile of bicycles distributed as assistance by China last month, protesting that they were previously used, substandard goods, reported the ANI news...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb22’25) – India’s foreign minister has met with his Chinese counterpart on Feb 21 in South Africa and said there has been “some notable developments” made between the two nations in a bid to improve relations. External Affairs...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb22’25) – After experiencing an unusually dry winter with an alarming 80% precipitation deficit in January and February, the higher reaches of Himachal Pradesh were blanketed in fresh snowfall on Thursday (Feb 20), transforming the region into a...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb21’25) – Chinese authorities are stated to have doubled the prison sentence of a Tibetan activist who had used an online platform to make a defiant criticism of official soft-pedalling in a case of environmental devastation in his...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb21’25) – The Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, home to the exile Tibetan headquarters at Dharamshala, Kangra district, has suffered an 80% rain deficit since Jan 2025, raising prosects of water scarcity in the months ahead, reported tribuneindia.com...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb20’25) – Well-known Chinese actress Zhao Lusi (born Rosy Zhao) who made headlines recently, discussing her battle with depression, has taken up charity work for the victims of the devastating Dingri earthquake which hit Tibet’s Mt Everest county...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb18’25) – The US State Department has dropped a statement from its website which stated that Washington does not support Taiwan’s independence, sparking anger from China which demanded that the “mistake” be “corrected”. China has also taken strong...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb18’25) – A comment by an Indian National Congress (INC) leader which suggested Feb 17 that China be not assumed as the enemy has sparked a controversy, leading the party to distance itself from it after strong backlash...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb17’25) – A reporter working for UK’s ITV spent a year secretly filming while avoiding police checkpoints to show the plight of the more than seven million Tibetans trapped under Beijing’s rule, and China demanded that it be...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb17’25) – Ahead of ushering in Losar, their most important calendar year festival, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) has on Feb 17 urged the Tibetan public to mark it this year with subdued air of festivity in solidarity...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb16’25) – China has on Feb 13 sought to reject a Swiss government report suggesting that it has been cracking down on Tibetans and Uyghurs living in Switzerland under the globally condemned campaign of transnational repression. It has...

The history of Tibetan negotiations with China thus far has been a saga of failures, was marked by lack of good faith from the other side, were held between inherently unequal sides, and they all bear testimony to the...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb14’25) – China has revised its policy on the administration of Tibetan Buddhist temples, focusing especially on Sinicization of Tibetan Buddhism with “a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation”, according to a Dharamshala-based Tibetan rights group....

(TibetanReview.net, Feb14’25) – As China keeps busying itself towards appointing its own next Dalai Lama, despite its atheist lack of qualification for any such inherently religious exercise of great solemnity, India has decided to ramp up security to its...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb14’25) – The United Nations International Labor Organization (ILO) has on Feb 10 said authorities in China are not only using what it calls “vocational skills training and education centers” for forced labor in East Turkestan (Xinjiang) and...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb13’25) –China is said to have expelled more than 1,000 monks and nuns from the world’s biggest centre for the study of Tibetan Buddhism located in Serthar (Chinese: Seda) county, Sichuan province, and demolished monastic living quarters to...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb13’25) –A Swiss government report has concluded Feb 12 that China has been subjecting Tibetans and Uyghurs living in the country to “transnational repression”, including by recruiting fellow-ethnic members to spy on them, reported swissinfo.ch Feb 12 and...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb12’25) –China accounted for the most number of transnational repression incidents documented by Washington DC-based non-profit organisation Freedom House over 2014-2024, being responsible for fully 22% of them, according to the group’s new report released Feb 6. The...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb12’25) –India and China are still “crossing the river and feeling the stones” and therefore cannot be said to have reached a stage where the former feels confident enough to open to investments from the latter very soon,...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb11’25) –China has responded with a dismissive reiteration of its position on talks with the Dalai Lama when asked about the death on Feb 8 of the Tibetan spiritual leader’s elder brother Gyalo Thondup, his key interlocutor with...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb11’25) –China has raised objections to two Bangladeshi school textbooks and the map on the Department of Survey’s website, claiming that Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin are wrongly depicted as part of India and arguing that these territories...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb10’25) – With Britain’s recently elected Labour government having all but approved China’s new sprawling embassy complex plan in London despite strong and repeated opposition, objection and rejection from local residents and authorities, including the Mayor of London,...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb09’25) – Gyalo Thondup, the middle of the Dalai Lama’s three elder brothers, and his key interlocutor with Beijing right since 1950, is no more. He passed away on Feb 8 at his home in Kalimpong, India, aged...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb08’25) – China sources much of its lithium resources from salt lakes in Qinghai and the Tibet autonomous region, reported China’s official chinadaily.com.cn Feb 8. This was cited in the context of the inauguration in Qinghai province on...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb08’25) – Taking to heart late Chairman Mao Zedong’s dictum that Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun, rather than by any sort of democratic consent of the governed, China’s top military command is reported...