(TibetanReview.net, Apr08’24) — China has shut down a Tibetan-language weblog and its related social media blog that have been popular among Tibetans in Tibet and exile for alleged copyright infringement. However, the move is seen as part of an...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr08’24) —Mt Everest on the Chinese-occupied Tibet side is opening for business for non-mainland Chinese foreigners again after four years of Covid-19 pandemic ban. Climbers must obtain separate visas for Tibet, in addition to their tourist visas for...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr08’24) — China and Ukraine established formal diplomatic relations in 1992, a year after the latter gained independence from the erstwhile Soviet Union, and went on to declare themselves strategic partners in 2011. But now China has ramped...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr07’24) — Well-known Ladakh-based Indian climate activist Mr Sonam Wangchuk has called off his planned Apr 7 march at the head of his supporters to the Chinese-occupied Tibet’s border. He wanted to “avoid any sort of confrontation with...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr06’24) — Chinese police have arrested a Tibetan Buddhist monk in Ngaba (or Ngawa, Chinese: Aba) county of Kardze (Ganzi) prefecture in Sichuan province last month when he staged a lone protest against government policies, carrying a portrait...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr06’24) — China is set to develop 175 more border villages on the occupied-Tibet side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) facing the northeast Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. These settlements will be in addition to the...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr05’24) — China which has been intimidating Taiwan with a series of highly menacing military exercises with threats to invade should it move towards formally declaring independence has expressed thanks to the world for showing concern over the...

LETTER Recently I visited Wales and as I travelled through the rolling valleys and rugged mountains I was reminded of places in Tibet. It was impossible to miss the masses of golden daffodils, currently in bloom, and I was...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr04’24) — A delegation of Buddhist monks from Sri Lanka has on Apr 4 presented to His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Dharamshala, relics of the Buddha that has been kept at their monastery for the last one...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr04’24) — At a time when the Buddhadharma is seeing a bit of a decline, I am determined to serve it for another 15-20 years, said Holiness the Dalai Lama Apr 3 at a ceremony to offer long-life...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr03’24) — India’s External Affair Minister, Mr S Jaishankar, has said Apr 2 that mistakes made by independent India’s first Prime Minister had led to problems including Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) and China’s occupation of some parts of...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr03’24) — The United States has on Apr 2 criticized China’s Mar 30 announcement of a list of 30 new names for places in the India state of Arunachal Pradesh, calling it yet another “unilateral attempt” to reassert...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr02’24) — Reacting to China’s renaming of 30 more places in Arunachal Pradesh, announced on Mar 30, India said Apr 2 that it would not have any effect on the ground reality. Arunachal Pradesh was, is, and will...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar31’24) — Despite Covid-19 lockdowns and restrictions having long become a thing of the past across the world, and China having even granted visa-free entry to citizens of a number of countries to boost its tourism industry, the...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar31’24) — China marked on Mar 28 the 65th anniversary of its scrapping of a “one country, two systems” policy for Tibet, promised less than eight years earlier, in 1951, with public celebrations across the occupied territory, including...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar31’24) — In yet another provocative move, asserting cartographic sovereignty over the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh on the basis of its occupation rule over Tibet, China has on Mar 30 declared its own names for 30...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar30’24) — The massive $1.2 trillion government funding bill passed by the US Congress earlier this month and signed into law by President Joe Biden on Mar 23 to fund the rest of the federal government included provisions...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar30’24) — The heightened level of bonhomie seen in India-Bhutan relations in recent times has prompted a Chinese academic to warn that it could have “obvious and direct” impacts on China’s efforts to resolve its long-running occupied-Tibet border...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar29’24) —The seventh session of the 17th Tibetan Parliament in Exile concluded today with the approval of an over Indian Rs 3.33 billion budget for the financial year Apr 2024-Mar 2025 of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA). It...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar28’24) — While most of the Tibetans, including hundreds of monks, detained and severely ill-treated and beaten during their interrogation for around a month by Chinese police since the last week of Feb 2024 in Dege county of...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar28’24) —The 29th meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs has been held in Beijing on Mar 27 and the two sides had an in-depth exchange of views on how to achieve...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar27’24) —Police in India have on Mar 26 detained two young Chinese nationals who illegally crossed over from Nepal, claiming to wish to meet the Dalai Lama and also visit Bengaluru, reported the timesofindia.com Mar 26. A man,...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar27’24) —China has on Mar 26 called on India to respect its sovereignty claims over the disputed South China Sea (SCS) after the latter backed Philippines’ maritime sovereignty based on international law. The bitter row comes as China...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar26’24) — Hundreds of remaining monks and other Tibetans detained by Chinese police in Feb 2024 for gathering to protest and petition against a major hydroelectric power dam complex being built in Dege County of Kardze prefecture, Sichuan...

LETTER (TibetanReview.net, Mar26’24) All who were watching the ongoing Tibetan parliament session might have wondered with bated breath when MP Jamphel Tenzin stood up to declare that what he was going to address the House about would be done...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar25’24) —For the fourth time since Mar 11, China has reiterated its claim that the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh is “Zangnan”, or southern Tibet, and belongs to it in view of the apparent fact that Tibet is...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar24’24) —Hospitals across China are closing their obstetric departments due to lack of patients as the country of 1.4 billion people suffered a population decline for two consecutive years despite government efforts to stem the falling tide both...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar23’24) — The forest fire that erupted on Mar 15 evening and immediately swept through Nyagchu (Chinese: Yajiang) County of Kardze (Ganzi or Garze) prefecture, Sichuan Province, is still smouldering and it started from a construction site, reported...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar23’24) —Amid reports that Bhutan and China are likely to reach a final settlement of their dispute over the latter’s occupied Tibet border, with significant potential security implications for India, New Delhi has on Mar 22 announced a...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar22’24) —Ji Guogang, a Chinese official who has held various senior positions in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) since 2013, including as the former vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the Regional People’s Congress, has pleaded guilty for corruption...