(TibetanReview.net, Nov17’23) – Chinese president Xi Jinping claim Nov 16 that his country had “not provoked a conflict or war, or occupied a single inch of foreign land” has been received with derision in India which had suffered an...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov16’23) – Tibetans with their Snowlion national flags – some being waved about or held up, others draped around them, yet others being held from or planted on strategic high spots – were a marked presence among hundreds...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov16’23) – The Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE) is to reconvene next month in a resumption of the session which opened in September but was postponed in disarray after a quorum-busting section of its members staged a walkout....

(TibetanReview.net, Nov15’23) – As hundreds of Chinese nationals, including students from local San Francisco universities like UC Berkeley and Stanford, gathered with massive Chinese Communist Party flags to welcome their dictatorial leader Xi Jinping for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov15’23) – China said Nov 14 that Gyaltsen Norbu, whom it had designated and appointed in Dec 1995 as the 11th Panchen Lama of Tibet, had given “head-touching” blessing to more than 38,000 Buddhist adherents in Shigatse City....

(TibetanReview.net, Nov14’23) – China has on Nov 13 opened a new land port serving as a gateway between it through Tibet and Nepal to give bilateral economic and trade exchanges a major boost, reported China’s official chinadaily.com.cn Nov 13...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov14’23) – Banned in India as a threat to national security and in at least 34 US states for federal and state employees amid criticisms from Beijing, China’s TikTok had been delivered the same fate in Nepal on...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov12’23) – Tibet’s exile spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, is to visit Mumbai next month to take part in a high-profile international Buddhist conference, report the PTI news agency Nov 12, citing India’s union minister Mr Ramdas Athawale....

(TibetanReview.net, Nov12’23) – An international peer-reviewed journal based in China has forced Indian scientists to withdraw from publication a paper on the White-Cheeked Macaque, objecting to its mentioning of Arunachal Pradesh as a sampling site, reported thehindu.com Nov 11....

(TibetanReview.net, Nov11’23) – The lofty, meditative but very beautifully photographed film Kundun was a very personal story for Scorsese, tackling the true story of Tibet’s 14th Dalai Lama until China occupation and annexation of his homeland. However, now Disney...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov11’23) – Three activists of the San Francisco chapter of Students for a Free Tibet have on Nov 10 hung a banner from the roof of the city’s Moscone Center, denouncing Chinese President Xi Jinping as a “dictator”...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov10’23) – The publicity section of the cabinet of the Chinese government has today issued its 19th White Paper on Tibet since 1992, with its most distinctive feature being the use of the term “Xizang” or “Xizang Autonomous...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov10’23) – The top Chinese boss of Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), the regional Communist Party Secretary Wang Junzheng, has begun on Nov 8 a five-day visit to Nepal to hold discussions on the progress of the agreements made...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov09’23) – As the exile Tibetan administration holds its fifth strategic meeting since 2021 towards the resolution of the Tibet issue and the exile Tibetan civil society holds a fourth conference since 2022 on Tibet’s future, both at...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov09’23) – Chinese authorities in the Tibetan prefecture of Kanlho (Chinese: Gannan), in Gansu province, had arrested last month a Tibetan Buddhist monastic teacher for having contact with people outside his local area, said the Tibetan service of...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov08’23) – An ethnic Middle School in Yushu (Tibetan: Yulshul) prefecture in Qinghai Province, most of which constitutes the bulk of the historical Tibetan province of Amdo (or Domey), has told parents and teachers in Sep 2023 that...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov07’23) – Chinese authorities in Tibet’s westernmost prefecture of Ngari have told its teachers and students to vow allegiance to the communist party-run People’s Republic of China (PRC) and denounce the Dalai Lama in its latest so-called anti-separatism...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov07’23) – As China and Bhutan talk about settling their Tibet-border disputes sooner rather than later and establishing diplomatic ties in its wake, the latter’s visiting King has met with Indian Prime Narendra Modi on Nov 6 and...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov06’23) – China’s top officials on women have on Oct 30 downplayed gender equality and focused, instead, on President Xi Jinping’s goal for Chinese women: Get married and have babies, reported the New York Times Nov 3. The...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov04’23) – The film Snow Leopard, directed by late Tibetan writer-director Pema Tseden, has won the Tokyo Grand Prix at the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival (Oct 23-Nov 01) as his son Jigme Trinley’s debut film was released...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov03’23) – Almost all of the China-funded Confucius Institutes in the US have closed, reported the bloomberg.com Nov 2, citing a new report. It said all but five of the institutes, which were created in 2004 to promote...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov03’23) – Following reports, most recently on Oct 23, that his country and China had reached an understanding for a speedy settlement of their Tibet-border disputes, King Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck of Bhutan has reached India today for an...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov02’23) – It requires creativity and seizing the moment when an opportunity, rare as it is, presents itself for Chinese citizens to poke fun at their dictatorial leaders and the Halloween Day on Oct 31 was such an...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov01’23) – After limiting the daily number of tourists allowed to enter the Potala Palace to 7,000 or so through much of the year due to the fragility of its ancient architecture, China has now opened it to...

(TibetanReview.net, Nov01’23) – The Tibetan Plateau’s vast currently known deposits constitute around 85% of the total lithium reserves of the People’s Republic of China and Beijing’s rush to exploit it in the face of booming demands for the scarce...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct31’23) – As the Chinese public mourn with fondness for its former premier Li Keqiang who passed away early in the morning of Oct 27, aged 68, as a moderate whose key focus was on the country and...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct30’23) – Comprehensive efforts should be made to promote standard spoken and written Chinese language and the use of unified state-compiled textbooks, China’s official Xinhua news agency Oct 28 cited President Xi Jinping as saying Oct 27, calling...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct29’23) – China has censored all references to the suddenness of the death of its former premier Li Keqiang on Oct 27 and the offering of praises of him on social media while universities have banned mourning activities...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct28’23) – Human rights violations in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong, as well as individual cases of concern were among the large number of issues raised by US Secretary of State Antony J Blinken during his seven-hour meeting...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct28’23) – Mr Tarh Tarak, State BJP Vice-President, has been elected as the new President of Tibet Support Group of Arunachal Pradesh (TSGAP) at a meeting in capital Itanagar on Oct 27, with Mr Nima Sange, Co-Convener Media...