(TibetanReview.net, Sep15’23) – Religious freedom in Chinese ruled Tibet to the limited extent it is allowed is quintessentially local, whether it comes to getting the requisite permits and clearances to enrol in a monastic order or to attending important...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep14’23) – Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang of Sikkim has announced Sep 13 that Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, will visit the northeast Indian border state for five days next month. It is not clear yet...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep14’23) – What India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru did not foresee – and the fact that he also did not bother to define the border between the two countries – while recognizing Tibet as an autonomous region...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep13’23) – In keeping with China’s appropriation of all things uniquely Tibetan as Chinese and the ongoing Sinicization campaign, China-imposed 11th Panchen Lama Gyaltsen Norbu has called Tibetan medicine a treasure in Chinese culture as he concluded a...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep13’23) – Continuing its ongoing effort to reduce the huge infrastructure differential with China across occupied Tibet amid continuing border tensions, India has on Sep 13 inaugurated 90 projects to enhance its preparedness for any future conflict. Launched...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep12’23) – As questions swirl on public no-show of China’s defence minister Li Shangfu over the last two weeks, at least four high-ranking officials from the country’s military enterprises have been detained by the party’s Central Commission for...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep11’23) – Chinese President Xi Jinping has on Sep 8 called for comprehensively enhancing the troops’ combat readiness during an inspection of a group army headquartered in the country’s northeast as speculation whirled on the whereabouts of defence...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep10’23) – In what has been seen as a hint on why Chinese President Xi Jinping took the unprecedented decision to skip the 18th G20 Leaders’ Summit in New Delhi, Sep 9-10, a Chinese think tank affiliated with...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep09’23) – China is to give more power and opportunity for corruption to its police forces by empowering them go after citizens for “hurting the feelings of the Chinese nation” under a proposed legal amendment that has triggered...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep08’23) – Tibetans staged a protest in their north Delhi colony area of Majnu-ka-Tilla in the morning of Sep 8, the eve of the Sep 9-10 G20 summit being held in the city. The main purpose was to...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep08’23) – Snow Leopard, a masterpiece directed by late Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden, was screened at the 2023 Venice International Film Festival on Sep 7. The film is about a snow leopard, a protected species, that kills the...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep08’23) – A new library and learning center is being opened at the Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies in Ithaca, New York state, with the inaugural festivities continuing from Sep 8 to 10, reported ithacajournal.com Jun 7....

(TibetanReview.net, Sep07’23) – The Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), the largest Tibetan non-government organization, has made clear its plan to protest against China on Sep 8 ahead of the G20 meeting in New Delhi over Sep 9-10. This followed a...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep07’23) – A Chinese company, which is one of the world’s top copper mining companies, is to produce an average of 99,000 tons per year of the metal for some 20 years from a currently undeveloped, ultra-large copper...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep06’23) – Tibetan protests have been a regular feature during any visit to India by top Chinese leaders for as long as one remembers. But the G20 meeting being hosted by India in New Delhi over Sep 9-10...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep05’23) – Pope Francis has returned to Rome on Sep 4 after the first papal voyage to Mongolia in a trip overshadowed by apparent overtures to Beijing, with whom the Vatican has for years struggled to make inroads,...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep05’23) – Reports from Tibet of children being separated from their families are disturbing and deeply concerning, Australia has said in various interactions with Chinese officials, reported au.news.yahoo.com Sep 4, citing Foreign Minister Penny Wong. Addressing the country’s...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep05’23) – Prime Minister Narendra Modi has on Sep 3 rejected criticisms by China and Pakistan earlier this year for hosting G20 events in parts of India they claim are disputed territories ahead of hosting the main event...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep03’23) – Chinese President Xi Jinping had no problem flying all the way to South Africa to attend the BRICS summit in Johannesburg from Aug 22 to 24, but is not coming to what China considers its next...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep02’23) – A delegation of lawmakers from Sweden and representatives from more than 20 international donor organizations took part in the 63rd anniversary commemoration of Tibetan Democracy Day at the main Buddhist Temple in Dharamshala, India, on Sep...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep02’23) – China is escorting in Tibet Autonomous Region a group of ambassadors from different countries to the United Nations with the aim to convince them of its tale about the “true situation” there following a series of...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep02’23) – British foreign secretary James Cleverly has said he had raised human rights concerns at “every single one” of his meetings with top Chinese officials, as he made a state visit to Beijing on Aug 30, reported...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep02’23) – After diplomatic protests by India, the Philippines and Malaysia, three more countries have joined in the chorus of criticisms of China’s cartographic aggression on their land and maritime territories depicted in the 2023 edition of its...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep01’23) – Former US president Barack Obama and Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, will visit Mandya district in Karnataka state, India, in Dec 2023 to lay the foundation stone for an International Yoga and Meditation Centre,...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep01’23) – As China begins implementing on Sep 1 a new set of measures to restrict religious freedom across the country, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) at Dharamshala, India, has expressed serious concern over its particularly serious implications...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep01’23) – China has on Aug 31 vowed to impose tit-for-tat sanctions on US officials in retaliation for Washington’s recent announcement to impose visa curbs on Chinese officials responsible for Beijing’s “forced assimilation” boarding school system in Tibet....

(TibetanReview.net, Sep01’23) – Australia’s ruling Labour Party has adopted a human rights resolution during its 49th National Conference, held over Aug 17-19 in Brisbane, strongly condemning the situation in Xinjiang as well as across the rest of the People’s...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug31’23) – China has on Aug 30 justified its cartographic assertion of sovereignty over Aksai Chin and much of the state of Arunachal Pradesh, when asked about India’s lodging of a strong protest over the inclusion of these...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug30’23) – India has expressed outrage, dismissed as “absurd”, and lodged a “strong protest” over China’s cartographic invasion of its territory on the basis of its illegal annexation of Tibet more than half a century ago following the...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug28’23) – China may have territorially fragmented Tibet into Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR, or Xizang) and Qinghai province, and as “autonomous” prefectures in its Gansu, Sichuan, and Yunnan Provinces. Nevertheless, it wants to treat all Tibetan areas as...