(TibetanReview.net, Oct27’23) – Li Keqiang, China’s former premier for two five-year terms until March this year when he was conspicuously sidelined by President Xi Jinping, has suddenly died early today, a day after he reportedly suffered a heart attack....

(TibetanReview.net, Oct26’23) – Citing the citizen’s constitutional obligation to safeguard national unity and the solidarity of all the country’s ethnic groups, and to safeguard the security, honour and interests of the motherland, China has, on Oct 24, newly adopted...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct26’23) – For collecting donations given for religious offerings, a county police in Qinghai province have detained eight Tibetans, said Tibet monitoring and research group Tibet Watch, which is associated with the London-based campaign group Free Tibet, on...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct25’23) – India’s Defence Minister Mr Rajnath Singh has on Oct 24 visited forward posts near the Tibet-border in Arunachal Pradesh to assess the operational preparedness of the armed forces in the eastern sector amid the ongoing military...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct25’23) – Members of the New Zealand cricket team and their families have on Oct 24 visited His Holiness the Dalai Lama at his Thekchen Choling residence at McLeod Ganj after their Oct 22, and ahead of their...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct24’23) – Echoing Bhutan’s recent remarks, China has said Oct 23 that it was willing to reach a settlement on its occupied-Tibet border issue with that country as soon as possible, paving the way for the establishment of...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct24’23) – A reprint of a book attributing the end of the Ming dynasty 400 years ago to the paranoia and incompetence of the Chinese emperor was pulled off the shelves last week as it drew now censored...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct23’23) – The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) at Dharamshala, India, is to mark 2025 as “Year of Peace” to celebrate the life and legacy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The exile spiritual leader of Tibet will reach...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct21’23) – Sikyong Mr Penpa Tsering, the executive head of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), has urged the international community not to follow China’s lead to use “Xizang” in place of “Tibet” while referring to Tibet Autonomous Region...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct21’23) – China is continuing what amounts to making preparations for war with India along occupied Tibet’s border, suggests the US department of defence its latest annual report on China’s overall military power. China has not reduced its...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct20’23) – The Dalai Lama’s scheduled Nov-Dec 2023 travels to Sikkim and South India have been cancelled to facilitate his full recovery from a recent bout of flu, said his office in a notice today. However, his planned...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct20’23) – A total of 575 Tibetans in the Netherlands, Belgium and France have newly enrolled to become annual contributors to the running of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), the de facto exile Tibetan government, at Dharamshala, India,...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct19’23) – Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the US House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have on Oct 18 issued a joint statement regarding ongoing efforts to find a...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct19’23) – Tibet-sympathizing lawmakers have on Oct 18 marked the 16th anniversary of the conferment of the US Congressional Gold Medal on His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama with the attendance of the visiting Sikyong (executive head) Mr...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct18’23) – US Senator Mitt Romney, a Utah Republican, has on Oct 17 met with Sikyong (executive head) Mr Penpa Tsering of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) and Hollywood star and Tibet activist Richard Gere “to discuss efforts...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct18’23) – After Kardze (Chinese: Ganzi) prefecture, it has now been reported that the ban on the teaching and use of Tibetan language has been extended to Ngaba (Aba) prefecture as well, bringing the whole of the Tibetan...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct17’23) – Canada has included Tibet, with its main tourist attraction of Potala Palace, among its nine no-go vacation spots for travellers, according to an mtlblog.com report Oct 16. Rising political tensions, unpredictable natural disasters, and volatile security...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct17’23) – China says all the nearly 700 towns (including Townships and sub-districts) in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) have now been covered by 5G network after a 5G base station started operation in Gogmo (Tibetan: Tradong) Township in...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct15’23) – Following a foreign ministry readout which used ‘Xizang’ as the official Chinese translation for Tibet Autonomous Region, Chinese e-commerce platform Weidian has advised millions of merchants to stop using ‘Tibet’ in English product descriptions or face...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct15’23) – China is investing an estimated 30.2 billion yuan ($4.14 billion) to build an expressway to link two Tibetan counties in Qinghai and Sichuan provinces. The work on building the expressway over a complicated geological environment with...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct14’23) – Decrying the lack of any official contact between the two sides after 2010, the US State Department has said in a new report to Congress Oct 10 that a negotiated resolution to the Tibet-China conflict provides...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct13’23) – Sikyong (executive head) Mr Penpa Tsering of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) was on Oct 10 given a ceremonial welcome in the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Congress of the Union, the bicameral...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct13’23) – India and China held their 20th round of Corps Commander-level talks to defuse tensions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, with no immediate resolution being reached. The meeting was held at the...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct12’23) – While no effect has been seen so far in many of its news reporting on Tibet, China has begun referring to Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), the western half of Tibet proper, by its own linguistic name...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct12’23) – The Dalai Lama returned to his Thekchen Choling home at Mcleod Ganj, Dharamshala, this morning after three days in New Delhi during which he underwent a routine medical check-up for a persistent cold. The testing was...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct12’23) – Implementing China’s assimilation campaign under the rubric of President Xi Jinping’s Sinicization drive, all the 20 or so counties in the historically Tibetan prefecture of Kardze (Chinese: Ganzi) will remove Tibetan language from their school curricula...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct11’23) – The government of Karnataka has granted a budgetary sanction of Rs 30 million for the welfare of the Tibetan community across the Indian state for the fiscal year 2023-2024, said the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) on...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct10’23) – Following the postponement of his Oct 16-22 visits to Gangtok and Salugara in Sikkim and West Bengal respectively, the Dalai Lama’s planned Oct-Nov 2023 visit to Arunachal Pradesh has been cancelled, reported arunachaltimes.in Oct 10. The...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct10’23) – China marked its communist party-state founding day holiday from Oct 1 to 8 in Tibet’s capital Lhasa by tightening security, including by imposing movement restrictions, closing to the public the major religious sites, and subjecting the...

(TibetanReview.net, Oct09’23) – The scheduled visits of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Gangtok, capital of India’s northeastern Tibet-border state of Sikkim, and Salugara, in neighbouring West Bengal state, over Oct 16-22 have been postponed due to the unprecedented...