(TibetanReview.net, Dec07’23) – The Chinese government in Tibet Autonomous Region blocked entry to nearly 50,000 pilgrims from India this year while letting in visitors from all other countries, compelling many to visit Nepal instead, reported the kathmandupost.com Dec 6....

(TibetanReview.net, Dec06’23) – Chinese authorities are reported to have detained two Tibetan women, who are sisters, for what they apparently saw as making religiously inspired appeals for donations to their charity work that helps the poor and needy in...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec06’23) – The two 17th Karmapa reincarnations, each recognized by different top lamas within the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, have issued a joint statement Dec 4, outlining their mutual plans to work together toward the recognition, education,...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec05’23) – India’s Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment has on Dec 4 called on Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in Dharamshala to invite him for the Dhamma Diksha, an international conference on Buddhism,...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec05’23) – Environmental inspectors sent by Beijing have criticised authorities in Qinghai Province for turning a blind eye to illegal mining activities of Chinese companies operating there while also failing to implement China’s environmental protection guidelines, reported the...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec04’23) – Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, said Nov 30 that it had taken down thousands of fake accounts from several networks that were part of a China-based influence campaign to spread polarising political...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec04’23) – Chinese authorities in Golog (Chinese: Guoluo) prefecture of Qinghai Province have jailed a Tibetan singer for apparently sharing on social media a patriotic Tibetan song, according to Dharamshala-based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy Dec...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec03’23) – As their border standoff across occupied Tibet in the Ladakh region continues, China and India are still talking and have agreed Nov 30 to hold the 21st round of commander-level talks at the earliest opportunity to...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec02’23) – Although Bhutan previously denied it, China has continued its unsanctioned programme of settlement construction across the contested border in the kingdom’s Himalayan north, reported chathamhouse.org Dec 1, citing satellite imagery from Sep 2023. The report felt...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec02’23) – To prepare egg fried rice, which has long been a beloved dish in China and one of most recognizable icons of Chinese cuisine around the world, is to court political controversy, if not danger as well,...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec01’23) – Tibetan applicants for Chinese government jobs continue to be required to denounce their exile religious leader, the Dalai Lama, besides being loyal to the Party-state, reported the Tibetan Service of rfa.org Nov 30, citing a directive...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec01’23) – China said Dec 1 that it had completed this week the relocation of Tibetans from one of the highest villages in Tibet to a lower altitude settlement. Independent sources have in the past condemned such relocations...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov30’23) – A bipartisan bill which would require the United State government to push China to negotiate with the exile Tibetan leadership to resolve the longstanding Tibet-China dispute now heads for a floor vote after it was unanimously...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov30’23) – Seven Tibetan Buddhist nuns have been awarded their geshema degrees, the highest academic achievement in the Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, at a convocation ceremony held in Bodh Gaya, India, on Nov 27. These nuns became...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov29’23) – China has opened on Nov 28 the Tibetan region of Ngaba (or Ngawa, Chinese: Aba) for high-speed railway traffic from China as a part of its Sichuan-Qinghai Railway project. This is the first railway on the...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov28’23) – To counter global criticisms for its authoritarian system, persecution of dissidents, ill-treatment of ethnic minorities, and aggressive behaviour towards neighbours, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-state, led by President XI Jinping, has “cultivated” a large pool of...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov27’23) – The Chinese government’s replacement-appointed 11th Panchen Lama Gyaltsen Norbu appears to have spent far longer period in Tibet this year than at any time before, mainly visiting monasteries and performing prayer services, giving “head touching” blessings...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov27’23) – China has opened to traffic today a crucial section of its strategically grand Tibet-Yunnan Railway, connecting two well-known tourist cities in Yunnan province. With the operation of the Lijiang-Shangri-la railway, the fastest travel time between the...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov25’23) – China’s hope for a new President of Taiwan amenable to its goal of eventual ‘reunification” of the island has suffered a blow with the two opposition parties amenable to it failing to agree on a common...

EDITORIAL (TibetanReview.net, Nov24’23) – Academics in China derive their relevance and, indeed, legitimacy from the fact that they paint a glorious picture of the situation in the country, as mandated by its Communist Party dictators, no matter how far...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov24’23) – The Sikyong Mr Penpa Tsering, the executive head of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) at Dharamshala, India, was on Nov 22 introduced in the Canadian Parliament as “the voice of the Tibetans around the world”, said...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov23’23) – China is closing, destroying, or repurposing hundreds to over a thousand mosques in an expansion of its campaign of Sinicizing the Islamic faith beyond Xinjiang to other Muslim areas in the country, according to New York-based...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov21’23) – In an apparent suggestion that he is back in robust health, the Dalai Lama is to give his previously postponed or cancelled teachings in Sikkim and Salugara next month before his scheduled Bodh Gaya teachings, according...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov21’23) – Questions continue to hang starkly over the whereabouts or, indeed, the very fate of the 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima he replaced in 1995. But this has not prevented the Chinese government-appointed 11th Panchen Lama Gyaltsen (or...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov21’23) – With the Dalai Lama’s schedule of teachings at Bodh Gaya towards the end of next month confirmed, those desirous to attend it have been invited to register online at www.dalailamateaching.com, although prior registration is not compulsory....

(TibetanReview.net, Nov20’23) – As China continues its propaganda drive to dismiss well-documented reports, including by the United Nations, that it is carrying out an acculturation schooling system for Tibetan children in their occupied homeland, the Belgian parliament has issued...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov19’23) – Serious-looking security personnel stood in readiness to handle anything that might breach the peace and embarrass the authorities as Tibetans stood in line to file past the Chinese government-appointed 11th Panchen Lama Gyaltsen Norbu at Tashilhunpo...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov18’23) – China has condemned US president Joe Biden’s reiteration of his position that its virtually life-time President Xi Jinping is a “dictator”, although this does not appear to have soured Beijing’s portrayal of the two leaders’ Nov...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov17’23) – US President Joe Biden has included Tibet among issues of human rights he raised in his meeting Nov 16 with visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping. However, he has been urged to go further to push China...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov17’23) – Chinese supporters had clashed with Tibet protesters outside the Hyatt Regency hotel in San Francisco as Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived for the Nov 15-17 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference of 21 member-countries. Almost a thousand...