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Tibetans honor Tulku Hungkar Dorje amid calls for investigation into death

Tibetans honor Tulku Hungkar Dorje in Dharamsala, call for probe into his death in Vietnam custody amid claims of Chinese persecution.

Sikyong Penpa Tsering Meets Member of Canadian Parliament Yvon Baker

Toronto: On Friday, 16 May 2025, Sikyong Penpa Tsering met and congratulated Canadian MP Yvon Baker on his reelection and thanked him for his ongoing support to the Tibetan people. Representative Namgyal Choedup and Canada Tibet Committee’s Executive Director...

Sikyong Penpa Tsering Meets Canadian Member of Parliament Yvon Baker

Toronto: On Friday, 16 May 2025, Sikyong Penpa Tsering met and congratulated Canadian MP Yvon Baker on his reelection and thanked him for his ongoing support to the Tibetan people. Representative Namgyal Choedup and Canada Tibet Committee’s Executive Director...

30th Anniversary of the Enforced Disappearance of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima

17 May 2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the enforced disappearance of the 11th Panchen Lama of Tibet, Jetsun Tenzin Gedhun Yeshi Trinley Phuntsok Pal Sangpo. On 17 May 1995, three days after His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama...

China launches vigil in Lhasa for independence, terror activities after rare pub brawl

(TibetanReview.net, May16’25) – Police in Tibet’s capital Lhasa, known for tight security, have handed administrative penalties on dozens of people involved in a rare brawl in front of a pub on May 7 early morning, reported the scmp.com May...

Activists, devotees gather to honor Tibetan Buddhist leader who died in Vietnam

Tulku Hungkar Dorjee died 49 days ago under mysterious circumstances while in Chinese custody.

China accuses Taiwan of ‘de-Sinicization’ move, sounds familiar?

(TibetanReview.net, May16’25) – In a twist of fate, China has condemned alleged attempts by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities to push “de-Sinicization” and sever the historical and cultural ties between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. However,...

A Stolen Child, A Silenced Voice: The Enforced Disappearance of Tibet’s Panchen Lama

By Tsering Passang Thirty years ago, on 17 May 1995, before he could speak his first words as a spiritual leader or sit among his people, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was abducted by Chinese authorities. He was just six years...

30 years on, rights groups press China for word of Tibet’s missing Panchen Lama

The Panchen Lama was abducted on May 17, 1995 as part of China’s plan to control the succession of the Dalai Lama.

ICT alerts European Parliamentarians on the devastating impacts of China’s hydropower dams in Tibet

May 16, 2025 At a conference held at the European Parliament in Brussels on 14 May, EU policymakers, scientists, and human rights experts came together to examine China’s hydropower dams-building spree on the Tibetan Plateau and its serious and...