(TibetanReview.net, Aug12’24) – The general narrative on the demise of the Tibetan empire, which pervaded across Central Asia and beyond during the period of 7th to 9th centuries AD, even sacking China’s Tang dynasty capital Chang’an—modern day Xian—in 763,...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug12’24) – A delegation from the Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE) has concluded on Aug 9 a five-day Tibet outreach campaign in India’s capital Delhi, taking part in the relaunch of the Tibet group in the newly elected...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug11’24) – Glacier sizes are rapidly reducing due to the impact of climate change in recent years, resulting in a gradual rise of moraine-dammed lakes in Himachal Pradesh in India and the Trans Himalayan Region of Tibet, posing...

OPINION Robert Vanwey* contends that people, especially those with expert knowledge, who worry for the future of Tibet, Tibetan culture, and Tibetan Buddhism have an obligation to come together and support the entire community, for while we cannot change...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug09’24) – China is in an all-out soft-power conquest of Africa effort, building infrastructures, providing aid and loan, establishing party-to-party relations, cultivating political leaders, and building political schools to promote its governance and development model and ideology. The...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug09’24) – As China seemingly tightens the noose for its invasion of Taiwan with a rising crescendo of grey zone war tactics, so also does it close in on individuals it deems to be responsible for provoking its...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug08’24) – In what has been termed as a landmark development, the American Bar Association (ABA) has on Aug 5 adopted a resolution urging the United States and the United Nations to investigate human rights violations in Tibet....

(TibetanReview.net, Aug08’24) – The All-Party Indian Parliamentary Forum for Tibet (APIPFT), first established in 1970, was relaunched in the new Indian Parliament on Aug 7 following the Apr-Jun 2024 Indian general elections. It took place as a delegation of...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug07’24) – The presumptive Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz has long-standing ties to China. However, he also has a solid record of being critical of China’s human rights record and of having met with the Dalai Lama as...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug07’24) – Wang Shujun wanted to be seen as a democracy activist with a passion to see his country become a free and open society, but a court in New York City has found that he was wearing...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug06’24) – “His Holiness is recovering well,” Dr David Mayman, MD, Chief of the Adult Reconstruction and Joint Replacement Service at the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, has said after visiting the exile spiritual leader of Tibet...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug06’24) – China’s top ethnic policy official has criticised works about ethnic minorities which do not focus on the common national identity as “self-centred”. By way of example, he has cited a Tibetan-language movie for only focusing on...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug05’24) – An international research team has successfully drilled record boreholes in the world’s highest saltwater lake located in northern Tibet over Jun-Jul 2024 to collect sediment cores to study the Earth’s history, including climate change, dating back...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug04’24) – It appears to be clear from the latest Chinese state media reports that the same flood and landslide toppled a tunnel-bridge and hit a village in the night of Aug 2-3 in Kangding (Tibetan: Dartsedo) City,...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug04’24) – Two men from the state of Arunachal Pradesh missing for nearly two years from a remote location along India’s border with Chinese ruled Tibet are still untraceable. They are believed – in fact, known – to...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug03’24) – Hollywood star Richard Gere, possibly the world’s most famous lay Tibetan Buddhist as well as Tibet activist, is helping to produce a documentary about the Dalai Lama and his message of peace, reported aussiedlerbote.de Aug 2,...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug03’24) – Mudslide disasters have hit two nearby places in a Tibetan area of what is now part of China’s Sichuan province over Aug 2-3, resulting in deaths and people missing, necessitating the dispatch of hundreds of people...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug02’24) – After two back-to-back meetings between their foreign ministers during the month, India and China held their latest round of foreign-office led border talks on Jul 31. Both sides have spoken of the talks in positive terms...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug01’24) – The physical assault on activists of Tibet and other campaign groups during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to San Francisco for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit over Nov 14-15 last year was coordinated by the...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug01’24) – Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) is the only provincial-level region in the People’s Republic of China where road construction is fully funded by the central government, underlying Beijing’s top priority in ensuring political stability and border security...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug01’24) – In an action that has only symbolic value at best, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has on Jul 31 announced “countermeasures” against US Congressman Jim McGovern, a Democrat representing Massachusetts, “in response to his frequent words...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul31’24) – Chief Minister Pema Khandu of the border state of Arunachal Pradesh already said it before: that India’s border is with Tibet, not China. And now, the only Rajya Sabha (upper house) member from Sikkim, another border...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul31’24) – The Union Territory of Ladakh is set to receive new protections for its land, jobs, and cultural heritage, although the Central government is unlikely to grant it the Sixth Schedule status or restore its statehood as...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul30’24) – The trial has begun in a New York City federal court on Jul 29 of Shujun Wang who had long billed himself as a scholar and democracy activist, having fled China to build a new life...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul30’24) – India’s External affairs minister S Jaishankar has said Jul 29 that relations with China continued to be problematic and that he had held two meetings with his counterpart Wang Yi this month alone in efforts to...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul29’24) – As it continues the border standoff across India’s eastern Ladakh, there is no let-up in China’s building of border security villages, referred to as Xiaokang villages, in occupied Tibet, of which 624 had reportedly been built...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul29’24) – China is desperate as it fails to repeat the spectacular success of its decades-long one-child policy in implementing its current three-child policy. Burdened by economic hardship and for sundry other reasons, young people are simply refusing...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul28’24) – The focus of China’s new development plans in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), which includes the establishment of New Economic and Technology Development Zones (ETDZs), are on pockets of the Han populated areas. Already, the Tibetan economy...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul27’24) – After brushing aside heartbreaking pleas, protests and what not, Chinese authorities in Tsolho (Chinese: Hainan) Prefecture of Qinghai province have completed the demolition of a 135-year-old Tibetan Buddhist monastery ahead of the planned completion later this...

(TibetanReview.net, Jul26’24) – A reception was held at the Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, DC, on Jul 25, during which the Sikyong, Mr Penpa Tsering, of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) expressed gratitude to the lawmakers who had sponsored...