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China stops short of supporting India for UNSC veto power seat

(TibetanReview.net, Feb11’26) – China has said Feb 10 that it “understands and respects” India’s aspirations for permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), but stopped short of the all-important commitment to support it. Nevertheless, livemint.com Feb 11...

China jails Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai for 20 years for saying things it did not like

(TibetanReview.net, Feb10’26) – China has jailed Hong Kong’s well-known media tycoon Jimmy Lai for what his son sees as a death sentence for the alleged crime, in essence, of nothing more than saying things Beijing did not like. The...

China reports discovery of vast natural hydrogen sources on Tibetan Plateau

(TibetanReview.net, Feb09’26) – Hydrogen, which produces only water when burned, is regarded as an ideal green energy source and China has recently discovered vast reserves of natural hydrogen sealed in ancient rocks on the Tibetan Plateau, pointing to a...

Dalai Lama has never met Jeffrey Epstein, his office says

(TibetanReview.net, Feb08’26) – Following reports in a section of the press that the name “Dalai Lama” has been mentioned a number of times in the Epstein files, the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama has clarified in a...

India in China-talks for opening Himachal route for Kailash-Mansarovar pilgrimage

(TibetanReview.net, Feb08’26) –India is engaged with China to explore the opening of an additional route for the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra (pilgrimage), including the possibility of using the Shipki La Pass in Himachal Pradesh, reported the tribuneindia.com Feb 7, citing...

Chinese troops harass, beat Nepal’s livestock farmers despite 2012 border grazing deal

(TibetanReview.net, Feb07’26) – Nepal’s communist leaders have been criticising the ongoing visit of a Tibetan Buddhist master on invitation from the country’s Buddhist community at a 10-day religious event in capital Kathmandu that began on Feb 1, calling him...

Did President Xi’s Tibet visit in 2025 portend top general’s fall from grace, disarray in China’s top army echelon?

(TibetanReview.net, Feb06’26) – Gen Zhang Youxia, senior vice-chairman of China’s Central Military Commission (CMC) and the most senior uniformed general, was all too conspicuous an absence to be ignored from the entourage of President Xi Jinping when he landed...

China out to eradicate Tibetan civilization, UN rights expert warns

(TibetanReview.net, Feb05’26) – As China’s policy to Sinicize Tibet continues to run amok, with focus especially on secular as well as religious educational institutions and curricula, a UN human rights expert has warned that its policies there are actively...

Delhi High Court reaffirms passport right of Tibetan citizens of India, their registration as foreigners not an impediment

(TibetanReview.net, Feb05’26) – The Delhi High Court has on Feb 3 upheld its series of previous decisions since 2010, saying Tibetans born in India on or after Jan 26, 1950, and before Jul 1, 1987, are citizens by birth...

Survey: Tibet’s clean energy potential could help China meet its entire power needs

(TibetanReview.net, Feb04’26) – The exploitable solar, wind and hydropower resources in western Tibet, demarcated by China as Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), alone could theoretically meet all of the energy needs of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), reported scmp.com...

VOA, RFA to be back in business, US assistance for Tibet projects retained

(TibetanReview.net, Feb04’26) – The Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Asia (RFA), with their Tibetan services, are expected to be back in business with the US fund for Tibetan projects also being continued, said Washington-based International Campaign for...

Chinese man’s D’shala stay without visa raises security concerns

TibetanReview.net, Feb03’26) – Although a person entering a country without a visa and having no linguistic skill defies the persona of a spy, the arrest of a Chinese person in McLeodganj (Dharamshala) on Feb 2 has raises security concerns...

China angry Dalai Lama won a Grammy for his Meditations audiobook

(TibetanReview.net, Feb03’26) – Beijing sees anti-China menace whenever and wherever the name “Dalai Lama” crops up, unless it is one which criticises him. And so, it exploded with anger when the global media reported on his winning on Feb...

Dalai Lama calls his Meditations audiobook Grammy win a recognition of shared universal responsibility

(TibetanReview.net, Feb02’26) – The Dalai Lama has added a new title to his long list of global honours – he is now a Grammy winner. On music world’s biggest night, the 68th Grammy Awards, which took place in Los...

China introduces lifetime travel passes for tourists to eastern Tibet’s Kardze prefecture as its Sinicization move proceeds apace

(TibetanReview.net, Feb01’26) – In order to give a significant boost to tourism in eastern Tibet’s Kardze (Chinese: Ganzi or Garzê) region, which presently forms part of China’s Sichuan province, the local government has introduced what has been called a...

Himalayan populations have strongest genetic links with Tibet, Siberia, less so with China

(TibetanReview.net, Jan31’26) – The Himalayan populations have strongest of ancestral affinity with Tibet and Siberia but less with China, reported the timesofindia.com Jan 31, citing a recent DNA study presented at an ongoing international conference. A recent DNA study...

China’s lifting of sanctions on UK MPs dismissed as ‘meagre return’ on PM’s visit

(TibetanReview.net, Jan31’26) – Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer of Great Britain has said China had lifted “all restrictions” on six current members of the British Parliament, after he held talks with President Xi Jinping in Beijing. However, a Labour...

BOOK: China’s official records since imperial times cited to prove Tibet’s sovereign status

(TibetanReview.net, Jan30’26) – The English translation has been launched on Jan 29 of a book by a retired professor from US and Hong Kong which lays bare China’s official and archival historical records which pointedly refute the current party-state’s...

Climate crisis depopulating Nepal’s ethnically Tibetan Limi Valley in face of gov’t apathy

(TibetanReview.net, Jan29’26) – Humla, Nepal’s northern-most district sharing border with Tibet, suffers from climate change-induced livelihood breakdown and the increasing outmigration of communities in the face of government apathy to the residents’ worsening plight, reported kathmandupost.com Jan 25. In...

Tibetan election commission penalises one, cautions two others as polling dates near

(TibetanReview.net, Jan28’26) – The Election Commission (EC) of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) has on Jan 28 suspended the electoral rights of one person for eight years and cautioned two others for violating or potentially violating the electoral rules...

Over 20,000 evacuated, 49 villages hit by non-fatal 5.5-magnitude earthquake in eastern Tibet

(TibetanReview.net, Jan26’27) – More than 20,000 people in a county in a Tibetan prefecture in Gansu province have been evacuated following a 5.5-magnitude earthquake which jolted it in the afternoon of Jan 26, said China’s official media reports Jan...

Report: China continues to be ‘World’s ‘Worst Jailer of Journalists’

(TibetanReview.net, Jan26’27) – For the third consecutive year in 2025, China jailed more journalists than any other country, retaining the dubious distinction of being “the world’s worst jailer of journalists”, according to the latest annual report of an international...

China launches record ultra-high-voltage power lines project to massively funnel ill-gotten clean energy from Tibet

(TibetanReview.net, Jan26’26) – When it comes to clean energy, Tibet is the source and China’s power-hungry coastal megacities the consumers, with the unabashedly exploitative manner in which production is carried out by state-linked Chinese companies rendering the situation colonial,...

Elections’26: Endorsement for Tseten Phuntsok – Institutional Credibility, Information Warfare, and the Democratic Stakes Ahead

Tenzin Norzin* presents her case for the election of Mr Tseten Phuntsok as a candidate for the North-South Americas in the preliminary poll to be held on Feb 1, 2026, for the 18th Tibetan Parliament in Exile. This election is not...

Breakthrough technology makes China’s lithium extraction in Tibet much more profitable

(TibetanReview.net, Jan25’26) – China says it has achieved a major technological breakthrough which makes much more profitable its extraction of lithium, often referred to as “white gold”, from its salt lake lithium resources. “China’s” primary lithium mines are concentrated...

Elections’26: Why I Am Running for Chithue – A Call to Heal Our Community and Strengthen Our Future**

Kelsang Phuntsok Jungney* dwells on his qualifications as a North and South Americas candidate for election to the upcoming, 18th Tibetan Parliament in Exile, and his agenda if elected. After a community event in Seattle, a friend shared a...

Tibetan Buddhist leader with provincial-level senior positions reported held, disappeared

(TibetanReview.net, Jan24’26) – China removed the head-lama of a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Yushu prefecture of Qinghai province from his provincial level political advisory and religious bodies in Dec 2024 and arrested him for having allegedly helped a fugitive...

China loses its top general to President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption bludgeon

(TibetanReview.net, Jan24’26) –China’s defence ministry has announced Jan 24 that senior military officials Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli had been investigated for suspected serious discipline and law violations, reported China’s state news agency Xinhua Jan 24. “Following a review…...

Report: 3.36 million Tibetans affected by China’s forced labour drive since 2000, 650,000 in 2024 alone

(TibetanReview.net, Jan23’26) – UN rights experts have on Jan 22 expressed deep concern stemming from allegations of forced labour affecting Uyghur, Kazakh and Kyrgyz minority groups as well as Tibetans in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and across other...

Famed Tibetan King’s Nepali queen no longer in home country’s national luminaries list

(TibetanReview.net, Jan22’26) – Bhrikuti, Bhelsa Tritsun in Tibetan, is no longer in Nepal’s list of national luminaries because there was no proper research on her despite the fact that her contribution to Buddhism and Buddhist culture in Tibet as...