Tibetan Review
Vietnamese Buddhist Sangha meets Dalai Lama, with invite for Vesak celebrations next year
(TibetanReview.net, Nov11’24) –A delegation of top Vietnamese Buddhist leaders led by Ven Thich Tam Tri, Member of the Supreme Patriarch Council of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS), has called on the Dalai Lama at his exile residence in Dharamshala,...
Exile delegation assured Czech parliament support for Tibet
(TibetanReview.net, Nov11’24) –A delegation of Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE) members has discussed the most pressings issues facing Tibet under Chinese rule in meetings with Czech lawmakers, government officials, diplomats, and others over Nov-7-8. The TPiE members, Ms Youdon...
Nepal’s exports to India suffer due to latter’s concern about Chinese components
(TibetanReview.net, Nov11’24) –India’s ties with today’s seemingly China-beholden Nepal is not as friendly as it historically used to be, while the India-China ties are far from normal, with the Oct 21 Depsang and Demchok patrolling deal being only the...
State television serial paints President Xi as worthy son of a glorious father
(TibetanReview.net, Nov09’24) –Xi Zhongxun, the father of China’s party general secretary and state president Xi Jinping, is the subject of a rousing new historical drama that premiered on Chinese state television on Nov 5, reported theguardian.com Nov 8. Funded...
Indian Army denies reports China is causing deadlock in coordinating Depsang patrolling
(TibetanReview.net, Nov09’24) –The Indian Army has on Nov 7 dismissed media reports that military talks between India and China on the modalities of patrols had reached a deadlock in eastern Ladakh’s Depsang, saying no roadblocks or objections had been...
Lawmaker hosts visiting Tibetans’ briefing in German parliament building
(TibetanReview.net, Nov09’24) –A briefing on Tibet was held in a committee room in the Bundestag, the German Parliament, addressed by visiting members Ms Youdon Aukatsang and Ms Tsering Lhamo of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE), Dharamshala, India, said...
After Depsang, Demchok disengagement, India and China to discuss de-escalation and so forth
(TibetanReview.net, Nov07’24) –India and China are steadily moving towards normalizing their Tibet-border situation and with it their bilateral ties, though this is subject to drawn out discussions at different levels over a period of time. Currently, while the disengagement...
Arunachal CM for maintaining centuries-old Tibetan-India ties
(TibetanReview.net, Nov05’24) –Indicating a rejection of the Chinese occupation rule in Tibet, Chief Minister Mr Pema Khandu of India’s border state of Arunachal Pradesh has spoken on Nov 4 about the need to maintain and continue the centuries-old Tibet-India...
Arunachal group vows continued support for Tibet during Sikyong visit
(TibetanReview.net, Nov05’24) –The Tibet support group of India’s border state of Arunachal Pradesh has on Nov 4 assured continued support for Tibet’s freedom struggle and promised to work for the basic welfare of the Tibetan community living in the...
China reported to have banned Nepal-Tibet borderland marriages
(TibetanReview.net, Nov05’24) –China has an issue with the people on the two sides of the Tibet-Nepal border marrying each other and has banned it but not bothered to explain why, according to thediplomat.com Nov 4. The people on the...
China speaks of greater protection for Tibet’s glaciers, citing their alarming retreat
(TibetanReview.net, Nov04’24) –Citing research from scientific institutions that underscored alarming rate of glacier retreat, China said Nov 4 that glaciers of Tibet autonomous region (TAR) will receive better legal protection with the implementation of regulations that came into effect...
New museum honours officer who brought Tawang under Indian union
(TibetanReview.net, Nov04’24) – India’s hold on Tawang was apparently tenuous after the 1914 convention among the nationalist Kuomintang ruled China, British India and independent Tibet put the territory that now constitutes the state of Arunachal Pradesh under New Delhi’s...
Nepali PM’s Oli’s China visit plan seen as break from tradition
(TibetanReview.net, Nov03’24) – In what is seen as a break from tradition, Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli of Nepal is likely to undertake his first official visit to China next month, four months after he took over as the...
Ghosts of Batman, Donald Trump and the Buddha scared China on Halloween Day
(TibetanReview.net, Nov02’24) –In China where freedom of speech is severely curtailed, festive costumes might be seen as providing a way out to citizens to express themselves with a bit of celebratory liberty, especially on an occasion like the Halloween...
Union minister Rijiju interacts with Chinese soldiers in Arunachal as eastern Ladakh disengagement set for completion
(TibetanReview.net, Nov02’24) –In a culmination of the ongoing disengagement process in eastern Ladakh, India’s federal government minister Mr Kiren Rijiju has on Nov 1 interacted with soldiers of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) near Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh along...
Tibetan Monk reported dead due to Chinese prison beating in Lhasa
(TibetanReview.net, Nov01’24) –A Buddhist monk in Tibet’s capital Lhasa has died as a result of beating and denial of medical care as a form of torture after being arrested by police in May this year on suspicion that he...
China has detained Tibetan who exposed eco-devastating illegal sand-mining in his village
(TibetanReview.net, Nov01’24) –Chinese authorities admitted last month that a nationally as well as internationally prominent building company had carried out environmentally devastating illegal sand mining in a Tibetan village in Ngaba (or Ngawa, Chinese: Aba) county in Sichuan province,...
Tibetan children from closed monastic schools being Sinicized in prison-like conditions
(TibetanReview.net, Nov01’24) –Tibetan children as young as 6 who had been removed from two monastic schools in Ngaba (or Ngawa, Chinese: Aba) and Dzoege (Ruo’ergai) counties of Sichuan province are being subjected to rigorous Sinicization makeover in prison-like conditions...
Indian and Chinese border troops exchange Diwali sweets after Depsang and Demchok disengagement
(TibetanReview.net, Nov01’24) – On the occasion of Diwali, India’s Hindu New Year festival of light, on Oct 31, Indian and Chinese troops have exchanged sweets on five locations along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), including two in Ladakh....
Nepal opens Lomanthang to all citizens travelling to Chinese ruled Tibet
(TibetanReview.net, Oct30’24) –Nepal has opened on Oct 30 a new immigration office at Lomanthang Rural Municipality-1, Nechung, of Mustang district in the Gandaki Province, to help streamline cross-border travel and operations at Korala Dry Port, reported the kathmandupost.com Oct...
China’s Ladakh border climbdown a part of easing foreign policy to prop failing economy?
(TibetanReview.net, Oct30’24) –China’s climbdown on its previously unyielding stand of not withdrawing from the Depsang and Demchok plains in India’s eastern Ladakh border areas over the past more than four years may be part of its overall policy to...
Nepal entrusts China to print Rs 100 notes with map laying claim over Indian territory
(TibetanReview.net, Oct29’24) –Nepal under Prime Minister KPS Oli appears to be making common cause with China on its territorial dispute with India by awarding the contract for the printing of its controversial new Rs 100 note to a Chinese...
China punishing officials for reading books that may affect their party-loyalty, academics also targeted
(TibetanReview.net, Oct29’24) –More and more officials are being punished for illicit reading as the Communist Party of China (CPC) tightens its grip on the personal lives of cadres, increasing its policing of ideological purity amid growing domestic challenges, reported...
Role reversed for China’s birth-control enforcers, now cajoling women to marry, have children
(TibetanReview.net, Oct29’24) –As China unveiled on Oct 28 new birth support policy measures to promote the building of a birth-friendly society, its grass roots government workers, who had spent decades imposing strict birth control policies, ruining careers and families,...
India: Border issues far from fully resolved, normalizing China ties to take time
(TibetanReview.net, Oct28’24) –India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said Oct 26 that the breakthrough agreement with China on patrolling arrangement along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh’s Demchok and Depsang plains does not mean that...
New research calls Tibetan Plateau mothers ‘evolution in action’
(TibetanReview.net, Oct27’24) –In what has been described as “evolution in action”, a study led by Cynthia Beall, Distinguished University Professor Emerita at Case Western Reserve University, has found that the Tibetan women’s evolved physiological traits enhance their ability to...
Glacier pollution in Tibet shows reach of harmful human activities
(TibetanReview.net, Oct26’24) –The environmental harmfulness of human activities could be gauged from the fact that its effect has reached the remotest corners of the world, namely the glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau, for instance. The findings are reported in...
China confiscating monks’ cell phones over leak of news on forced closure of monastic schools
(TibetanReview.net, Oct25’24) –Chinese authorities have been confiscating the cell phones of Tibetan Buddhist monks in a historically Tibetan area of Sichuan province, accusing them of having leaked news about the recent forced closure of monastic schools there, reported the...
Rights-scrutiny-sensitive China asked to account for four arbitrary-detention Tibetan victims
(TibetanReview.net, Oct25’24) –As China mustered support from “more than 100” countries at the UN General Assembly committee meeting on human rights in New York City on Oct 22, demanding that its deplorable records on the human rights situation in...
India and China disengaging at Ladakh border after reaching a patrolling deal
(TibetanReview.net, Oct25’24) –In a promising start to the implementation of a patrolling arrangement reached between them recently, India and China have begun the disengagement of their troops at two critical friction points in the Eastern Ladakh sector — Demchok...

































