(TibetanReview.net, Dec28’24) –A delegation of Tibet supporters in the Estonian Parliament is on a visit to Dharamshala and has met with His Holiness the Dalai Lama as well as top leaders of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), presenting each...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec28’24) –After reporting its approval of a plan to build “a dam” close to India’s border in occupied Tibet’s Yarlung Tsangpo, and it was later revealed by various news reports to be for the world’s largest hydroelectric project...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec27’24) –China has deployed hundreds of additional troops at the world’s biggest centre for the study of Tibetan Buddhism located in Serthar (Chinese: Seda) County of Kardze (Ganzi) prefecture, Sichuan province, to enforce severe new restrictions in the...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec27’24) –Lumbini, the birthplace in Nepal of the Buddha Shakyamuni, has become a geopolitical playing field for China despite protests from local citizens who remain anxious to preserve its Buddhist and spiritual significance above all else, according to...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec26’24) –In what is seen as a move to bring greater focus on Beijing’s plan for appointing a candidate of its own as the “reincarnation” of the current Dalai Lama, China’s top political adviser has made a rare...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec26’24) –The Chinese government has approved the construction of a hydropower project in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet, reported China’s official Xinhua news agency Dec 25, giving no information on its name, power generation...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec25’24) –Tibetans and rights groups have demanded that the British Museum stop labelling Tibetan artefacts in its Silk Roads exhibition with “Xizang”, China’s Sinicized term for “Tibet” meant to make the propaganda point that the historical Tibet as...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec25’24) –The issue of China’s meddling in the recognition of the future reincarnation of the current, 14th Dalai Lama reached the hall of the Indian parliament when Arunachal Pradesh MP Mr Tapir Gao raised it in Lok Sabha,...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec25’24) –The Canadian government has on Dec 24 condemned China’s imposition of sanctions on two Canadian civil society organisations and 20 Tibetan and Uyghur advocates associated with them, calling it an arbitrary targeting of those speaking for human...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec24’24) –As he prepared to leave for an extended stay at the Tibetan settlement in Bylakuppe town in the south Indian state of Karnataka, the Dalai Lama has said he does not have any serious health problem while...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec24’24) –Apart from intimidating large-scale military drills and a propaganda onslaught, China has been attacking Taiwan with a relentless wave of cyber-attacks as well, averaging nearly a million hacking attempts each month on the latter’s legislative Yuan alone....

(TibetanReview.net, Dec23’24) –As the UK’s Labour government looks to improve bilateral ties with the communist party-state of China, several members of the House of Lords, the upper house of parliament, have raised human rights and security issues Dec 19...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec23’24) –In what is seen as a strike back against Canada, China has declared the imposition of sanctions against two Canadian organizations and several individuals associated with them, concerned with Tibet and Xinjiang issues. Earlier, on the UN-declared...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec23’24) –The bipartisan, bicameral US Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) has issued its 2024 Annual Report on Dec 20, providing “a detailed account of the People’s Republic of China‘s (PRC) systematic abuses of human rights—most brutally implemented in...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec22’24) –For leading programmes of a Tibetan language group to encourage local ethnic residents to speak unadulterated mother tongue, Chinese police have arrested in May this year the abbot of a village in Dharlag (Chinese: Dari) county of...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec22’24) –Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, is to visit the Tibetan settlement at Bylakuppe in Mysuru district of Karnataka state for an extended stay. He will leave Dharamshala on Jan 2 and arrive at the settlement...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec21’24) –In a damning indictment of China’s transnational repression of its critics and others, a Chinese resident in New York who operated a “secret police station” in the Chinatown district of Manhattan to aid Beijing’s targeting of dissidents...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec21’24) –While not denying it as such, India has distanced itself from China’s claim that the two sides reached a six-point consensus and a commitment to a ‘package’ deal on the boundary question at the Dec 18 Beijing...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec20’24) –A new Japan Parliamentary Support Group for Tibet (JPSGT) has been launched of Japanese lawmakers following the recent elections to the country’s legislature, the Diet, with its first working committee meeting held on Dec 19. The meeting,...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec20’24) –Seeking to reason with those protesting against the proposed hydropower project on the Siang river, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu has on Dec 19 said the aim of the project is to counter possible threats posed...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec19’24) –The annual defence authorisation bill, which has been passed with comfortable majority votes in both chambers of the US Congress, contains three important provisions extending support for Tibet and Tibet-related issues and now awaits the President’s assent....

(TibetanReview.net, Dec19’24) –Members of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE) have on Dec 17 met with those of the All Party Indian Parliamentary Forum for Tibet (APIPFT) in New Delhi and discussed a host of issues for boosting the...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec19’24) –In what has been described as a significant step forward towards further normalization of bilateral ties, the Special Representatives (SRs) of India and China on boundary questions, Ajit Doval and Wang Yi respectively, have reached a six-point...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec18’24) – In yet another reported meeting on work on ethnic affairs by a Sinicization-obsessed party-state of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), top leader Wang Huning has on Dec 18 urged efforts to forge a strong sense of community...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec18’24) – Yet another report confirms that China has made significant encroachments into Bhutanese territory over the past eight years, building more than 20 villages and posing strategic threats to India as well. The development is seen as aimed...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec17’24) –As India and China look to normalize their bilateral ties in a series of moves that began with the Oct 21 deal to disengage their troops from the years-long eastern Ladakh standoff, and their Special Representatives are...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec17’24) –There is evident improvement-momentum in relations between India and China as their Special Representatives for the settlement of the border issues were scheduled to meet in Beijing on Dec 18, reported China’s official globaltimes.cn Dec 16. India’s...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec15’24) –While the Government of Nepal permitted the holding of the Nanhai (South China Sea) Buddhism Shenzhen Roundtable in the country, but pointedly rejected any idea of the China-appointed Panchen Lama Gyaincain Norbu attending it, Lyarkar Lama, the...

OPINION Professor Tenzin Dorjee* argues that China cannot succeed in erasing Tibet’s identity after turning “China’s Tibet” into “Xizang” and hopes Prime Minister KPS Oli does not turn Nepal into “China’s Nepal” by allowing the China-appointed Panchen Gyaincain Norbu...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec14’24) –The Chinese-organized, three-day Nanhai (South China Sea) Buddhism Shenzhen Roundtable kicked off in Kathmandu on Dec 13 in Lumbini, the birthplace of Buddha Shakyamuni. However, the Beijing-appointed Panchen Lama Gyaincain Norbu was not among the over 220...