(TibetanReview.net, Mar22’24) —Beijing denied access to Mt Kailash in Tibet to nearly 50,000 Indian pilgrims seeking to travel there through Nepal last year and the situation does not seem likely to change, given the state of Sino-India relations, reported...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar22’24) —China relishes the fact that no country recognizes the Tibetan government in exile as if this legitimizes its coerced 1951 annexation of its eastern neighbour. However, when the United States recently expressed its recognition of Arunachal Pradesh...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar21’24) — As China speaks of the primacy of the interests of “all ethnic groups”, designedly including the Han predominant group, to combat what it calls “ethnic minority exceptionalism” under President Xi Jinping’s assimilationist call for “a sense...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar21’24) —Tibetans protesting against Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi clashed with police as they tried to get inside the Chinese embassy compound in Australia’s capital Canberra on Mar 20 afternoon, reported Daily Mail Australia Mar 20, citing video...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar20’24) —India on Mar 19 reiterated its offhanded rejection of China’s claim over its northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, calling it “absurd” and “baseless”, two days after the latter’s military sought to reassert it on the basis of...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar19’24) — The fire has been extinguished from one field of its spread, has been contained in the remaining two, and the number of villagers evacuated as a safety measure was more than 5,900, said China’s latest official...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar19’24) —“Minorities” appear to have become a dirty word in President Xi Jinping’s China, as the party-state shifts focus, instead, to speaking of “all ethnic groups” to combat “ethnic minority exceptionalism” and promote the concept of zhonghua –...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar18’24) — The forest fire in Kardze (Ganzi or Garze) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province, has affected two counties and reached a residential area in one of them even as it has been put out at one of...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar17’24) — Nearly 3,400 Tibetans from a number of villages have been evacuated and more than 1200 firefighters deployed to fight a raging forest fire which started on Mar 15 evening in the eastern Tibetan County of Nyagchu...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar17’24) —China has made it clear Mar 15 that geographical names in ethnic minority or foreign languages should reflect the country’s sovereign and extraterritorial claims when translated into Chinese characters. These would include names of islands in the...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar16’24) — As Tibetans and supporters across the free world commemorated the 65th anniversary of their national uprising on Mar 10, there was total blackout on information from Tibet itself as China greatly tightens security ahead of the...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar15’24) — A popular Tibetan writer and poet taken away by police in Malho prefecture of Chinese-ruled Qinghai province more than three years ago continues to remain disappeared, with his family being denied any information on his condition...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar15’24) —After apparently failing to get the event cancelled, China has on Mar 13 expressed deep dissatisfaction and lodged a stern opposition to the US and Canada’s determination to hold an event on the preservation of Tibetans’ unique...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar14’24) —The 6th session of the current, 17th Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE), disrupted by an unsavoury walkout by a quorum-busting section of its members in Sep 2023 after sitting for just three days, resumed on Mar 13....

(TibetanReview.net, Mar13’24) — A Tibetan mother in Kardze (Chinese: Ganzi) prefecture of Sichuan province was reported to have died on Feb 17 due to severe depression stemming from China’s continued refusal to provide any information on her son who...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar13’24) —China’s intentions to maintain “large troop deployments and sporadic encounters” with India (across occupied Tibet’s border) could risk “miscalculation and escalation into armed conflict”, reported indiatoday.in Mar 12, citing the United States’ 2024 Annual Threat Assessment released...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar12’24) — Amid more reports of more protest rallies held across the continents to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Tibetan national uprising against Chinese occupation rule, a House resolution was introduced in the US Congress on Mar...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar12’24) — India has on Mar 12 pointedly rejected China’s criticism and protest over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the country’s Tibet-border state of Arunachal Pradesh and his inauguration of a strategic tunnel there. China claims the...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar11’24) — The 65th anniversary of the Tibetan national uprising against Chinese occupation rule was commemorated Mar 10 by Tibetans and their campaign supporters across the free world but again banned in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu which feared that...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar10’24) — The University College London (UCL) has come under criticism after a professor said she had been banned from teaching a course about China in order to avoid putting Chinese students off from applying to be taught...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar09’24) — A Chinese-backed hacking group, Evasive Panda (also known as BRONZE HIGHLAND and Daggerfly), has launched a cyberespionage campaign targeting Tibetans globally, reported hackread.com Mar 8, citing Antivirus and Internet Security Solutions provider ESET. The report said...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar09’24) — In light of its latest assessment of threats posed by an expansionist China from across occupied Tibet, India has freed nearly 10,000 soldiers from its western border to redeploy them under a new command to its...

Tibetan artist Tenzin Gyurmey Dorjee has told Choekyi Lhamo* that his storytelling through art layers complex issues with simple themes I met Tenzin Gyurmey Dorjee on a cold winter morning prior to his second solo exhibition in the foothills...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar08’24) – While China released a few dozen Tibetans on Feb 27 after the arrest of more than 1,000 in Dege County of Kardze prefecture in Sichuan province some days earlier, the crackdown continues with those who may...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar07’24) – Members of England’s cricket team have met with the Dalai Lama at his exile home in Dharamshala on Mar 6, ahead of their fifth and final Test match against India to be held in the picturesque...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar07’24) – China has claimed Mar 6 that there were no “mass incidents” last year in Tibet, a euphemism for protests. But it was obviously referring only to the situation in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), which is roughly...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar07’24) – Philippine Foreign Minister Enrique Manalo on Mar 4 urged regional maritime neighbours to stand together more strongly in upholding the rule of law in the South China Sea, where China had constructed garrisons on several artificial...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar07’24) – Unsustainable development, especially proliferating hydropower dams in the upriver Tibetan Plateau region, threatens the health and diverse fish populations of the Mekong river, with one-fifth of fish species in Southeast Asia’s main artery facing extinction, reported...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar05’24) – In a departure from the much-criticised reticence of most of his predecessors towards taking on China over its abysmal record in occupied Tibet, the top UN human rights official has on Mar 4 called on Beijing...

(TibetanReview.net, Mar05’24) – In what may be seen as proof that Chinese rule in Tibet is typically colonial, debunking the official designation of the historical Tibetan territories, broken up and placed under the authoritarian rule of the Chinese Communist...