Tibetan Review
China alleged to destroy religious features on exteriors of Tibetan homes
(TibetanReview.net, Jul26’24) – China’s campaign to Sinicize the Tibetan culture appears to have reached the doorsteps of villagers in Ngaba (or Ngawa, Chinese: Aba) county in what is now part of Sichuan province where residents have reportedly been ordered...
No info on two Nepalis called and held by China on suspicion of helping Tibetans flee
(TibetanReview.net, Jun12’24) —Police in Chinese ruled Tibet lured and arrested two Nepali youths on suspicion of trying to help Tibetans flee their occupied homeland. And they have remained missing for the last one month and half, reported kathmandupost.com Jun...
China disowned its citizen kidnapped by Hamas?
(TibetanReview.net, Jun11’24) —China is known to expects those who have emigrated abroad and their offspring to consider themselves as Chinese first and owe their primary loyalty to their country of origin, speaking up for them whenever any occasion arises....
After Nepal, will China reopen Covid-closed Tibet-India border trade points?
(TibetanReview.net, Jun11’24) —After China reopened 14 border trade points between its occupied Tibet and Nepal on May 25 after a prolonged Covid-19 closure, those on the Indian side of the border in Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand state are feeling...
China’s anti-corruption campaign a tool for fighting factional politics?
(TibetanReview.net, Jun10’24) —A report saying senior Chinese leaders, including President Xi Jinping, are engaged in corruption and hiding hundreds of millions of dollars in wealth by using relatives to disguise their activities suggests that the high-profile anti-corruption campaign that...
REPORT: Tibet Continued to be the most restricted destination in PRC for int’l travellers in 2023
(TibetanReview.net, Jun09’24) —Chinese government regulations and procedures that have historically impeded travel to Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and Tibetan areas outside the TAR for US diplomats and officials, journalists, and tourists remained in place in 2023, witnessing no improvement...
China betting on EU delegation’s Tibet outing to salvage its image?
(TibetanReview.net, Jun08’24) —China is to take a delegation of EU officials on a rare field trip to Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), the western half of Tibet proper, later this month, betting on a hope that they will see, hear...
China protests Modi’s acknowledgement of congratulations from Taiwan’s Lai on his re-election
(TibetanReview.net, Jun07’24) —Although the exchanged messages were devoid of any political contents, China on Jun 6 took exception to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s acknowledgement of Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te’s congratulations on his alliance’s victory in the just concluded...
India set to rename over 30 places in Tibet in tit-for-tat response to China
(TibetanReview.net, Jun07’24) —India is all set to not only refute China’s renaming in recent years of a total of 30-odd places in its northeastern border state of Arunachal Pradesh by claiming they are parts of its territory but also...
Speculations abound ahead of Dalai Lama’s US visit
(TibetanReview.net, Jun06’24) —Although the Dalai Lama’s planned visit to the US sometime later this month after Jun 20 is stated to be to get his knee problem fixed, speculations abound as to whether political leaders, including especially President Joe...
Dalai Lama congratulates India’s Modi for democratic re-election
(TibetanReview.net, Jun06’24) —The Dalai Lama has on Jun 5 congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India as the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), of which his BJP is the leading partner, won re-election for a third consecutive term following the...
China to strategize rail networking of Tibet and Xinjiang
(TibetanReview.net, Jun05’24) —Tibet and Xinjiang are major sources of strategic mineral and natural resources for China while also occupying vital geostrategic positions. They are also rife with resentment against the Chinese occupation rule. Given this fact, China has ‘big...
Chinese police arrest Tibetan for flying banned flag at his house consecration ceremony
(TibetanReview.net, Jun04’24) — For flying the Tibetan national flag atop his newly built home as a part of its consecration ceremony, Chinese police in Pashoe (Chinese: Basu, or Baxoi) County of eastern Tibet’s Chamdo City have taken away a...
US democracy foundation to honour two Tibetan partners at its annual award event
(TibetanReview.net, Jun04’24) —A government-funded, non-profit US democracy organization said Jun 3 that a Canada-based Tibet group and an India-based individual will be among six honourees at its Jun 13 awards event. In a statement, Washington-based National Endowment for Democracy...
Dalai Lama to visit US this month for knee treatment
(TibetanReview.net, Jun03’24) — The Dalai Lama is to travel to the United States in the coming couple of weeks or so, his first abroad in many years, to seek treatment for his knee problem. His office did not say...
China suspected to have removed missing British explorer’s body to protect its Everest propaganda claim
(TibetanReview.net, Jun03’24) — The body of British explorer George Mallory discovered in 1999 after he vanished during his Mt Everest expedition in 1924 may have been secretly removed by China sometime after 2001 to serve its propaganda interests, reported...
Witnessing the dismantling of dam-displaced Atsok Monastery in Tibet a sad, disturbing experience
LETTER I read your article (TibetanReview.net, Apr 13, 2024) about the relocation of Atsok Monastery in Dragkar Dzong (Ch. Xinhai), Amdo. I happened to be traveling around there in the area and it was easy to go (unlike Wonto...
D’shala boarding school for Tibetans in the West to begin running this year
(TibetanReview.net, Jun02’24) — The growing number of Tibetans living overseas outside the Indian subcontinent who are concerned about the sustenance of their ethnic and cultural identity through future generations now have an option to send their children to a...
China reported to have boosted offensive air capabilities along Tibet-border with India
(TibetanReview.net, Jun01’24) — Even as it keeps downplaying the seriousness of the standoff with India along the occupied-Tibet- Ladakh border, insisting that the two sides can resume normal bilateral ties without being bogged down by it, China keeps strengthening...
Major Chinese gold mine in Tibet resumes operation
(TibetanReview.net, Jun01’24) — After being closed for over a year due to the overflow of its tailing dam, China Gold International Resources has announced the resumption of the Phase II processing plant at its Jiama mine near Tibet’s capital...
Hong Kong convicts 14 activists, arrests six others ahead of 35th Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary
(TibetanReview.net, May31’24) — As the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre – in which peaceful student-led protesters urging democratic reform were massacred by the People’s Liberation Army of the Communist Party of China – approaches near, authorities in...
Meta dismantles China linked fake network of accounts that incited Sikhs against India, also targeted Tibet
(TibetanReview.net, May31’24) — A China-originated network previously found targeting India and Tibet has been running fake social media accounts that incited the Sikh community internationally to target the government of India, Social media giant Meta has said. Meta owns...
Chinese ambassador reprimands Estonian MP for visiting Tibetans in D’shala last month
(TibetanReview.net, May30’24) — In a belated, angry reaction, the Chinese Ambassador to Estonia has written to an Estonian MP, reprimanding him for visiting the exile Tibetan community in India at Dharamshala and meeting with their Central Tibetan Administration (CTA)...
Chinese ambassador scolds Nepalese journalist for raising failed airport loan interest issue
(TibetanReview.net, May30’24) — Public reports say Nepal has to pay a 2% interest on a $215.96 million Chinese loan for building what has now become a failed international airport project. However, a senior Nepalese journalist has said he had...
China has tightened religious restrictions in Lhasa during Tibet’s holiest month
(TibetanReview.net, May29’24) — As Tibetans mark a month-long observance of the full-moon day on which the Buddha Shakyamuni was believed to have taken birth, attained enlightenment, and passed away more than 2,500 years ago, Chinese authorities in Tibet’s capital...
China’s religious ban has driven depressed teenaged Tibetan monk to commit suicide
(TibetanReview.net, May29’24) — The emotional pains of being forced to leave his monastery and join a government-run school instead, with the imposition of a ban on wearing his monastic robes again, has driven a 17-year-old Tibetan Buddhist monk in...
REPORT: Rising Tibetan Plateau lakes spell widespread societal, ecological impacts
(TibetanReview.net, May29’24) — While recent reports have stated that more than half the world’s largest lakes, including those in the Tibetan plateau, are drying up, a paper published May 27 in Nature Geoscience suggests that, by the end of...
China touts Tibet’s tourism development, ‘ethnic unity’ on 73rd illegal annexation anniversary
(TibetanReview.net, May28’24) — While the anniversary of China’s illegal annexation of Tibet went seemingly unnoticed among the Tibetan diaspora, in Beijing, a press conference was held to commemorate the occasion. The people of Xizang (China’s new name for the...
After prolonged, tortuous Covid closure, China finally reopens 14 Tibet-Nepal border trade points
(TibetanReview.net, May26’24) — There is probably no other part of the world, including in China itself, where Covid-19 restrictions did not end years ago. To the local populations on the two sides of Nepal and Chinese-occupied Tibet border areas,...


































