(TibetanReview.net, Jan19’24) – The US Secretary of State has on Jan 18 awarded the Department’s International Religious Freedom Award to eight individuals from different countries in recognition of their courage and commitment to promoting and defending religious freedom globally....

(TibetanReview.net, Jan18’24) – Amid claims and suggestions that an uneasy calm has continued to prevail on India’s border with Chinese occupied Tibet, it has emerged that more clashes between Indian and Chinese troops have occurred than had been reported...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan17’24) – Although her position on the issue of Tibet throughout her two terms has been marked by China-sensitive caution of silence, outgoing President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan has lavished gratitude on Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan17’24) – Did King Frederik X of Denmark wear a distinctly Tibetan Buddhist bracelet when he ascended the Danish throne on Jan 14, succeeding his mother, Queen Margrethe II, who abdicated after 52 years as monarch? A report...

OPINION John Billington* pays tribute to the distinctly Buddhist-altruistic character which defines the Tibetan culture, underlining its enduring global appeal. (TibetanReview.net, Jan17’24) Tibet’s culture is UNIQUE.  There is no other culture like it in the world.  It is a...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan16’24) – President Xi Jinping has sought to drive home the point that China is more than anything else a Communist Party of China-state and demanded continued, absolute loyalty to the Party from the country’s judicial and law...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan15’24) – The Dalai Lama as well as top leaders of the exile Tibetan administration have congratulated Mr Lai Ching-te (or William Lai) on his election Jan 13 as the new President of Taiwan while China has scolded...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan15’24) – China said Jan 14 that it had extended its national power grid connections to remote outposts to boost its capabilities in border defence. Its official globaltimes.cn said Jan 14 that a group of its reporters recently...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan14’24) – China’s campaign of warplanes, naval ships, balloons and fearsome rhetoric to intimidate voters have left Beijing red-face after Taiwan still elected Mr Lai Ching-te as president in elections held on Jan 13. China had called him...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan13’24) – As the dispute between India and China along Tibet’s border continues to simmer, the two countries are trying to outbuild each other to enhance their relative advantages in the event of the outbreak of a conflict,...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan12’24) – Apparently targeting India, China has said Jan 11 that it “firmly opposes external interference” in the internal affairs of the Maldives and supports the Indian Ocean island nation in upholding its sovereignty and independence as the...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan12’24) – Releasing its world report for 2024, covering the year 2023, New York-based Human Rights Watch said Jan 12 that in Tibet, the authorities still forcibly assimilate Tibetans. What is more, extreme information controls make it very...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan11’24) – As Taiwan prepared to vote for a new President and a new parliament on Jan 13, China has made clear whom it does not want to see elected as President: current Vice president Mr Lai Ching-te...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan11’24) – Chinese authorities are carrying out random checks in residential areas and commercial establishments in several parts of Tibet to ensure that Tibetan children don’t attend private Tibetan classes denied in their regular schooling or engage in...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan09’24) – Ahead of Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo and Minister of Foreign Affairs Hadja Lahbib’s visit China this week, marking the first high-level mission since 2019, the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) has called for the...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan09’24) – As recommended by the country’s Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) in its annual report released Apr 2023, the United States has on Jan 4 designated China, along with 11 other countries that included North Korea...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan07’24) – The Chinese government is to boost its infrastructure construction spending in Xizang Autonomous Region, the western half of Tibet proper this year, with an injection from Beijing of 80 billion yuan (about $ 11.26 billion), reported...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan06’24) – China ushered in the year 2024 with the implementation of its Patriotic Education Law, which was adopted by its rubberstamp parliament in Oct 2023. The sweeping new law aims to get families, schools, companies, international institutions,...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan05’24) – India’s External Affairs Minister, Mr S Jaishankar, has on Dec 2 called the country’s Panchsheel agreement with China an example of past government action which is very difficult to understand today. The agreement, signed in Apr...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan04’24) – China has forbidden the admission of new monks at a monastery in the prefecture-level City of Chamdo in Tibet Autonomous Region as it continues to tighten religious activities under its ongoing Sinicization campaign, reported the Tibetan...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan04’24) – Following the conclusion on Jan 1 of his officially announced teaching schedules at Bodh Gaya, the Dalai Lama has, on being invited, presided over the Gelukpa University Convocation on Jan 3 for the award of the...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan04’24) – US-based Biotechnology company Thermo Fisher Scientific said it had halted sales of its DNA collection kits to Chinese-occupied Tibet after criticism from rights groups and pressure from Congress, reported axios.com Jan 3, citing an emailed statement...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan03’24) – Chinese police in Kyegudo (Chinese: Yushu) Prefecture of Qinghai Province had in Oct 2023 placed a Tibetan woman under administrative detention after she criticized police and bureaucratic ill-treatment of Tibetan people, including for subjecting them to...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan02’24) – The Dalai Lama concluded on Jan 1 his 11 days of scheduled programmes at Bodh Gaya, gracing a long-life ceremonial prayer offering made to him by an assortment of three Tibetan entities. They consisted of the...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan01’23) – President Xi Jinping has admitted in his televised annual New Year Eve speech that his country’s economy was in trouble, with some being unable to meet basic needs, while vowing that the democratically self-ruled island of...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec31’23) – Despite record-high grain output this year, making it the 20th consecutive bumper harvest year, China continues to be more dependent than ever before on imports, especially from the US, Canada and Australia, a potential geopolitical risk,...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec30’23) –China has built new border defence villages close to a spot called Yangtse where Indian troops brawled with intruding Chinese soldiers in Arunachal Pradesh a year ago, reported newsweek.com Dec 29, citing recent satellite images. China claims...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec29’23) – Rampant youth unemployment and plummeting marriages after three years of stringent zero-Covid policies under President Xi Jinping has derailed the growth engine that China’s economy has been over the preceding three decades or so. And as...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec28’23) – One of the Party-state of China’s main policies to deal with its failures is to avoid any public discussion of it, and censor those who expose it for doing so, as this is seen to negate...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec27’23) – While traditional or official Tibetan history begins from 127 BC with the enthronement of King Nyatri Tsenpo, the progenitor of the Yarlung dynasty, the country, now China-occupied, was known to be inhabited by humans as far...