(TibetanReview.net, Feb08’24) – A software, ostensibly designed to combat fraud, is under scrutiny for its potential use as a surveillance tool against the Tibetan population in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), said the bbc.com and several other news...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb07’24) – The reason why not much is heard about, and therefore reported on, on the human rights situation in Tibet today is because it remains the least free country on earth, an international summit on religious freedom...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb06’24) – Chinese authorities in the historically Tibetan region of Sichuan Province had arrested a Buddhist monk in Jun 2023 for having republished books from the exile Tibetan community and also for having contact with people outside the...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb06’24) – Signalling full onslaught on Sinicization of religion, China’s top leader on religious and minority affairs has on Feb 5 called on the country’s religious leaders to be more purposeful in serving the overall work of the...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb05’24) – Chinese authorities have been scrubbing the internet of negative takes on the state of the country’s economy, including news articles from financial experts and economists, according to reports last week by The New York Times and...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb04’24) – India’s strategically important Tibet-border Union Territory of Ladakh observed a complete shutdown on Feb 3 as thousands of its residents staged a march, demanding statehood and protections of local people’s interests under the Sixth Schedule of...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb04’24) – The exile Tibetan Administration at Dharamshala, India, is to compile a database of exile Tibetan households in a project that will be launched after the Tibetan New Year, Losar, which begins on Feb 10. This was...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb03’24) – Sounding the urgency to realise President Xi Jinping’s vision of “forging a sense of community of the Chinese nation,” a top policy office of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has pledged to tighten control of...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb01’24) – Chinese authorities in the historically Tibetan region in Sichuan Province have greeted with bearing of gifts the local people for Losar – the Tibetan New Year coming up on Feb 10 – by asking the leading...

(TibetanReview.net, Feb01’24) – The executive head of the Central Tibetan administration (CTA) at Dharamshala in India, the Sikyong Mr Penpa Tsering, has on Jan 31 held meetings and discussions and answered questions in the Seimas, the Lithuanian parliament building,...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan31’24) – Shepherds in India’s Union Territory of Ladakh have clashed with Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers on Jan 2 in a dispute over a piece of grazing land arising from difference in the two sides’ perception...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan30’24) – Amid allegations that China “gamed” the process, a top Chinese diplomat has said his government would “earnestly study” the 428 recommendations for addressing the human rights situation in the country submitted by UN members during the...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan29’24) – In what is seen as an unprecedented move, visiting Chinese leaders have publicly claimed that certain countries were trying to destabilise the good relations between Nepal and China, while some elements were also defaming the Belt...

OPINION Palden Sonam* argues that the American company Thermo Fisher Scientific’s recent statement that it had stopped the sale of its DNA-based human identification technology in Tibet Autonomous Region, though a symbolic victory to the campaigners, will have little...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan28’24) – In what is seen as a message to China, India has awarded its third highest civilian honour, the Padma Bhushan, to Taiwan’s Liu Young-way, the Chief Executive Officer of Foxconn. The move will send a very...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan27’24) – India is to repopulate a village in its Himalayan state of Uttarakhand lying nearest to Tibet’s border after having evacuated its residents during the late 1962 war with China, reported indiatimes.com Jan 27. The decision follows...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan27’24) – A federal jury in Boston has on Jan 25 convicted a Chinese music student on charges of stalking and harassing one of his Chinese classmates after she had posted flyers in support of freedom and democracy...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan26’24) – While China’s stock propaganda line is that “Tibet has been part of China since ancient times,” a retired Chinese university professor has presented imperial record-evidence Jan 25 to show this was not true. The occasion was...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan26’24) – China has responded with what amounted to saying a polite “no” to India’s suggestion that it could ease its heightened scrutiny of Chinese investments if peace is restored at the two countries’ border along occupied Tibet....

(TibetanReview.net, Jan25’24) – As the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group at Geneva prepared to finalize on Jan 26 its recommendations on the basis of its Jan 23 hearing, China has put itself in...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan25’24) – China met stinging criticism from Western countries during a review of its rights record at the United Nations on Jan 23, while other nations lumped praise on Beijing, including Russia and Iran, reported the AFP Jan...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan24’24) – The hinterland of the Tibetan Plateau, reputed as the “roof of the world” or the world’s third pole, had been inhabited since 50,000 years ago, rather than 40,000 years as previously known, reported China’s official Xinhua...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan24’24) – China is found to have jailed for three years a Tibetan Buddhist monk it arrested in the historically Tibetan region of Sichuan province in 2021 for among other reasons leading prayer ceremonies during the Covid-19 lockdown...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan23’24) – China appears to have completed in remote western Tibet the building of a new dam which if true will enable it to control the flow of water to Nepal and India’s northern plains, reported the newsweek.com...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan23’24) – Even as it demanded that the issue be not politicized, China has been lobbying non-Western countries, asking them to praise its human rights record ahead of a UN group’s Jan 23 meeting in Geneva where it...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan22’24) – The Dalai Lama arrived back at his Thekchen Choling home in Dharamshala, India, today after being away for some 40 days, visiting Sikkim, Bagdogra (West Bengal) and Bodh Gaya to mainly give a series of religious...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan22’24) – India is the only country in South Asia where China still does not have an ambassador, although the post has been lying vacant for the past 15 months, reported the IANS news service Jan 21. The...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan21’24) – Wondering why natural disasters had seen a marked increase especially in specific areas of the Indian Himalayas in recent years, India’s defence Minister, Mr Rajnath Singh, has wondered Jan 18 whether this was a result of...

OBITUARY Tenzin Dorjee* pays tribute to a friend who was born in Tibet under Chinese occupation rule, raised in India as an orphan, driven out of Nepal as an activist, rediscovered himself as an artist in America, and who...

(TibetanReview.net, Jan20’24) – China has announced the discovery of a massive deposit of lithium, a key material in the country’s flourishing new-energy sector that has emerged as a pillar of economic growth, in an area that was previously part...