(TibetanReview.net, Jan21’26) – The two Gelug members of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE) have on Jan 20 offered their solemn penitence in keeping with a directive issued by the Lachi of the Drepung monastic university in the Doeguling...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan20’26) – The number of Tibetan students sent to study in classes especially set up for them in schools in various provinces of China has increased in recent years in keeping with Beijing’s intensified drive to Sinicize Tibet...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan19’26) – Despite a slew of socio-economic measures over the past one decade directed at encouraging the youth to marry and have children, and the married to have more children, China’s birth count plummeted to a record low...

OPINION Taking a recent journal report by Chinese scientists on the discovery and analysis of rare earth minerals near his birthplace in Tibet to task, Tenzin Jigmey* argues that scientific exploration must account for local impact and incorporate local...

Who was the first US President to write to the Dalai Lama and who the first to meet with him? Which US president became the first to call on China to open dialogue with the Dalai Lama, and which...

OPINION By obliging candidates to disclose their positions and be judged on them, the smartvote Tibet campaign shows at a glance comprehensive, comparable, and accessible information about all candidates at one place, enabling voters to know which of them...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan16’26) – Rather than being allowed to focus primarily on learning their mother tongue and the extensive religious texts which are written in it, China’s campaign for Sinicizing Tibetan Buddhism and making religion conform to its so-called socialist...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan15’26) – China appears to have adopted a sect-wise Sinicization of Tibetan Buddhism not only to make it conform to its so-called socialist principles but also to possibly assimilate it with Chinese Buddhism. A symposium on Chinese-Tibetan Buddhism...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan14’26) – An Indian lawmaker has on Jan 12 broached the idea of taking up in parliament the setting up of a Buddhist university at Dharamshala, which he represents as the member of its Lok Sabha chamber from...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan14’26) – US tech billionaire entrepreneur Palmer Luckey has said in a podcast interview that despite their advanced weapons capabilities, China’s strongest weapon may be the government’s ability to control the populace with propaganda and get people to...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan13’26) – China has on Jan 12 defended its illegal acquisition in 1963 of the Shaksgam Valley of India’s Union territory of Ladakh, following New Delhi’s sharp criticism on Jan 9 of its expansion of the China-Pakistan Economic...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan12’26) – Given the regime-threatening protests that are being staged across Iran these days by a people no longer able to endure the economic hardship caused by their theocratic government’s grossly misplaced priorities, the Communist party of China...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan11’26) – The Lachi of the Drepung monastic university has on Jan 9 called on the two monks representing the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism in the Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE) to express heartfelt remorse for their...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan10’26) – India has reacted sharply to an announcement by Beijing and Islamabad of an expansion of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to include areas across Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Chinese-ruled Shaksgam valley of Ladakh. The Shaksgam valley...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan09’26) – A total of 11 shops have been gutted by a raging fire which swept through a Tibetan winter sweater-sellers’ market in Kolkata, capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on Jan 8 afternoon. No casualties...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan09’26) – In yet another major move to normalise business ties with China even as the border issue continues to fester, albeit with reduced tensions, India has decided to let Chinese companies compete for government contracts, reported Reuters...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan08’26) – An overseas Chinese democracy activist has sued the social media platform X after it failed to restore his account after repeated representations over the past nearly four years, reported independent.co.uk Jan 7. The platform, owned by...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan07’26) – The temperature on the Tibetan Plateau region last year was 1.12 C above normal, breaking record for four consecutive years, reported China’s official chinadaily.com.cn Jan 7, citing data released by the China Meteorological Administration’s National Climate...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan07’26) – In a significant step in continued improvement in bilateral ties amid escalating border militarisation on both sides, India has launched a new e-B-4 visa for Chinese nationals designed to boost business cooperation and industrial ties between...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan06’26) – China said Jan 6 that its local government in Tibet autonomous region’s efforts to build a modern transportation network had brought the total length of highways in it open to traffic to 125,200 kilometres by the...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan05’26) – China reduced its forward troop presence in eastern Ladakh by half over the last one year, but then it is building border military infrastructure at four times the pace of India, reported theprint.in Jan 5, citing...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan04’26) – One of the main drivers of China’s top mining company’s output growth target for the coming years is the expansion of the Julong copper mine in Tibet, reported newsable.asianetnews.com Jan 3. The company, the Zijin Mining...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan03’26) – China in Jun 2024 declared 2025 as “Visit Nepal Year in China” and promised to bring at least 500,000 Chinese tourists to the country. However, the Himalayan country has registered negative growth from China, which may...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan02’26) – China’s discovery of one million tons of lithium in Ngaba (Chinese: Aba) prefecture, formerly part of Tibet’s Amdo Province but now incorporated as part of Sichuan province, explains why the country is taking the front row...

OPINION Tenzin Nordon* believes would-be candidate Tashi Lamsang has what it takes to represent the Tibetan people in North-South Americas at the 18th Tibetan Parliament in Exile, come the 2026 elections. I came to the United States from India as...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan02’26) – Chinese travelling by Nio electric vehicle cars can now drive all the way from Yunnan’s capital Kunming to the base of Mt Everest in Tibet’s Dingri Country as the company has set up battery swap stations...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan01’26) – President Xi Jinping of China has said only the Communist Party of China (CPC) can make the country strong. He has called what he sees as an eventual reunification of the motherland an unstoppable trend of...

OPINION As 2026 approaches, Tsering Passang* argues why resolving the China–Tibet conflict before it is too late serves global peace, regional stability, and justice, and sees a role for India, amid a weakening of Western support for Tibet and...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec31’25) – China’s Zijin Mining Group Co, the world’s third largest mining company after Rio Tinto Group and BHP Group in market value, is planning double-digit growth for its gold and copper production in 2026, thanks due in...

(TibetanReview.net, Dec31’25) – An unnamed Indian official has dismissed as “bizarre” China’s foreign minister Wang Yi’s claim Dec 30 that his country “mediated” the ceasefire between India and Pakistan following New Delhi’s launch of “Operation Sindoor” which lasted from...