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Current Tibetan Sikyong gets a competitor in 2026 election

(TibetanReview.net, Nov20’25) – Former Representative of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) for North America Mr Kelsang Aukatsang (Kaydor) has announced Nov 19 that he is standing for election as Sikyong, the executive head of the CTA, in the 2026...

1962 conflict a Tibet-handiwork by US to prevent Sino-India rapprochement?

(TibetanReview.net, Nov20’25) – The 1962 India-China war was driven not primarily by border disagreements or diplomatic failures, as long accepted in mainstream historical accounts, but by a deliberate American strategy pursued through the 1950s and early 1960s, reported thehindubusinessline.com...

China reports significant findings from its second years-long scientific expedition to Tibetan Plateau

(TibetanReview.net, Nov19’25) – China said Nov 19 that its second Qinghai-Tibet Plateau scientific expedition had yielded significant practical outcomes, with its top 10 application achievements officially released that day in Tibet’s capital Lhasa. China has been carrying out expeditions...

New studies stated to indicate likelihood of major new earthquakes in the Himalayas

(TibetanReview.net, Nov19’25) – The Himalayan regions, which encompasses Tibet, Nepal, and Bhutan, as well as parts of India and Pakistan, and which has been hit by several devastating earthquakes in the past, faces the possibility of two major such...

Richard Gere addresses Canadian Parliament to standing ovation, leading Tibet Lobby Day

(TibetanReview.net, Nov18’25) – Hollywood star Richard Gere has on Nov 17 told Canadian Parliament that Ottawa shouldn’t pivot to a stronger relationship with China in response to its strained relationship with the United States, for Beijing cannot be trusted...

Former Top India official decries China’s political football playing of Dalai Lama reincarnation issue

(TibetanReview.net, Nov18’25) – The issue of reincarnation of the Dalai Lama and the continuation of the lineage is a “religious matter” and is not a “political football” which countries like China and others can play, Shivshankar Menon, India’s former...

Dalai Lama’s 75-year leadership of Tibet marked with celebrations of gratitude

(TibetanReview.net, Nov17’25) – The 75th anniversary of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s assumption of spiritual and temporal leadership of Tibet was marked today at the Tsuglakhang in Dharamshala as part of yearlong celebrations worldwide of his 90th birthday. A...

Dalai Lama biography in Hindi lauded as contribution to Indian literature, interfaith dialogue

(TibetanReview.net, Nov17’25) – Two Senior Congress and BJP leaders who had held top government posts in their times have on Nov 15 shared platform in New Delhi to shower praises on the Dalai Lama and expressed optimism for Tibet’s...

Amazon-focused COP30 told that world cannot afford to ignore the Tibetan Plateau climate crisis

(TibetanReview.net, Nov16’25) –As world leaders gathered in Belem, capital of the Brazilian state of Pará in the Amazon forests, for the COP 30 conference over Nov 6-21 with the Amazon as a centre of their attention, a small delegation...

India-China reopening yet to reach Himachal’s annual Tibet-border trade fair

(TibetanReview.net, Nov14’25) – India and China have been slowly reopening each other to business, pilgrimage, tourism, and flight services in recent months after a freeze in bilateral ties that lasted some five years as a result of border clashes...

China’s massive fuelling of Russia’s Ukraine war chest called a threat to Europe, NATO

(TibetanReview.net, Nov13’25) – Finland’s Defence Minister Antti Hakkanen said Nov 12 that China was “massively” financing Russia’s war efforts, which increases the security threat in Europe and poses a challenge to NATO, reported the AFP Nov 13. Speaking in...

India’s commissioning of new airfield in Ladakh a strategic milestone for countering China

(TibetanReview.net, Nov13’25) – Amid reports that China continues to greatly strengthen its military build-up in occupied Tibet’s southern border, including with building of new missile bases and fighter plane hangars close to Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh, India has been...

Guinness records 416-year-old grape vine found in Tibet as world’s oldest

(TibetanReview.net, Nov12’25) – A grape vine discovered deep in the mountains of eastern Tibet’s Chamdo (Chinese: Changdu) City has weathered four centuries of wind and frost, becoming the world’s oldest wild living vine, according to the guinnessworldrecords.com Nov 10....

Hongqi Bridge collapse in eastern Tibet triggered by nearby hydroelectric power dam?

(TibetanReview.net, Nov12’25) – A massive section of the newly constructed Hongqi Bridge in a historically Tibetan region of what is now part of Republic of China’s Sichuan province has dramatically collapsed into a river below on Nov 11 afternoon,...

China opens more convenient Tibet-pilgrimage route from Mustang, Nepal

(TibetanReview.net, Nov10’25) – Pilgrims from Nepal as well as other countries can now travel to western Tibet’s sacred Mount Kailash and Mansarovar Lake directly through the Korala border point in Mustang, following the start of operation of a new...

Indian Army set for harsh winter deployment, geo-tagging of key features along Ladakh border

(TibetanReview.net, Nov10’25) – Even as Sino-India relations appear to continue towards normalization with the resumption of Kailash-Mansarovar pilgrimage, direct flight services, issuance of tourist visas, and so forth, the military situation along their Tibet-border, whose flareup in 2020 reset...

Overtourism not a problem in Tibet?

(TibetanReview.net, Nov08’25) – Tourist sites in some countries in Europe, as well as Japan and others have been trying to limit tourist footfalls in recent times through various measures due to the adverse impact of what is called overtourism....

“Even Silence Burns” Days after March 10, 1959—the horrific invasion of Tibet by China.

Paying homage to the people in Tibet today whose culture, language, and identity have been suppressed after China’s invasion of their homeland, Meadon Lhamo* says she wrote this piece to show that even when voices are silenced, memory speaks...

Special event held in UK parliament as part of global 90th Dalai Lama birthday commemoration

(TibetanReview.net, Nov06’25) – A special event to celebrate the Dalai Lama’s contributions to humanity was held on Nov 3 in a committee room of the House of Commons in UK’s parliament as a part of a year-long global commemoration...

Prof Samdhong Rinpoche’s birthday marked as Teacher’s Day

(TibetanReview.net, Nov06’25) – Exile Tibetan schools observed the birthday of Prof Samdhong Rinpoche on Nov 5 as their Teacher’s Day following its designation at the 8th Tibetan General Conference on Education of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) held earlier...

China-disappeared 11th Panchen Lama awarded democracy medal by US foundation

(TibetanReview.net, Nov05’25) – A congressionally-funded non-profit foundation in the USA promoting democracy and human rights globally has presented its Democracy Service Medals to four individuals and groups, including the 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima of Tibet, at a...

Arunachal Pradesh to host 6th Dalai Lama global conference next month

(TibetanReview.net, Nov05’25) – Arunachal Pradesh,India’s northeastern Tibet-border state of India, is to host a global conference on the 6th Dalai Lama of Tibet (1683-1706 AD) next month. The Dalai Lamas since the 5th have been the temporal head and...

Tibetan IT centre says its Chatbot outperforms all major AI platforms in Tibetan

(TibetanReview.net, Nov05’25) – The Monlam Tibetan IT Research Centre of exile Tibetans based in India has said at its third annual event on Nov 3 in Dharamshala, India, that its Melong.ai surpasses existing large language models such as Gemini,...

Chinese goods are set to re-enter Indian markets after over four years

(TibetanReview.net, Nov04’25) – In a continuing trend of normalization in bilateral ties, Chinese goods are set to re-enter Indian markets after nearly four years of stalled clearances triggered by border clashes in the Union Territory of Ladakh in 2020,...

Pressuring UK university ultimately fails to stop research on rights abuses in China

(TibetanReview.net, Nov03’25) – China carried out a campaign of threats and intimidation lasting more than two years in attempts to get a university in the UK to shut down sensitive research into alleged human rights abuses, reported bbc.com and...

Tibetan Sikyong questions China’s ‘golden urn decree’ trick in claiming Dalai Lama reincarnation right

(TibetanReview.net, Nov02’25) – China rests its right to appoint the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama on false or at best distorted history, the executive had of the Central Tibetan Administration, Sikyong Penpa Tsering, has said while addressing the National...

Czech President to copatron Dalai Lama 90th birthday gala this month

(TibetanReview.net, Nov01’25) – Czech President Petr Pavel is to copatron in capital Prague on Nov 11 a special gala evening to honour the Dalai Lama for his 90th birthday, along with commemorating the country’s late first President Václav Havel...

India’s call for respect for int’l law in South China Sea disputes a message to China

(TibetanReview.net, Nov01’25) – In comments clearly directed at China without mentioning it by name, India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has on Nov 1 advocated for respect for international law and freedom of navigation and overflight in the hotly contested...

Last of Dingri earthquakes victims moved into new homes as questions linger about scale of disaster

(TibetanReview.net, Oct31’25) – The true scales of the death and destruction caused by the devastating 6.8-manitude earthquake which hit Tibet’s Mt Everest county of Dingri on Jan 7 remains unknown due to China’s denial of access and tight control...

Early heavy snowfall traps hikers on both sides of Mt Everest, Nepali locals

(TibetanReview.net, Oct31’25) – Both the Nepali and Tibetan sides of the Mt Everest region were closed to tourism on Oct 29 due to heavy snow brought by cyclone winds, with deep snowdrifts causing a helicopter to crash as it...