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30th GCM Gold cup football tournament kicks off in Dharamshala

Tsering Dhundup DHARAMSHALA, June 2: The Tibetan exile community’s most prestigious sporting event, the Gyalyum Chenmo Memorial Gold Cup’s 30th edition kicked off on Sunday at the Dharamshala Tibetan Children’s Village playground. The tournament honours Diki Tsering, the beloved mother...

ICT urges UNESCO to designate Potala Palace Ensemble as “World Heritage in Danger” amid cultural heritage violations in Tibet

June 2, 2025 The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) is calling on the UNESCO World Heritage Committee to designate the “Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace” in Lhasa, Tibet, as a World Heritage Site in Danger during its upcoming...

China cannot hold a white paper on Tibetan rights tainted by its bloody hands of repression

OPINION Palden Sonam* expresses outrage at the suspicious circumstance in which Tulku Rigzin Hungkar Dorje, a victim of China’s campaign to assimilate Tibet and transnational repression, died in Vietnam on March 28, and calls the outrageous manner in which...

Dragon's Dilemma: If China Cuts Water To India, Pakistan And Bangladesh Will Dry Out Too

Two of the most important rivers originating in Tibet, the Sutlej and the Brahmaputra, flow not only into India but also onward into Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Tibetan voices for independence will be “muted”, says China defender Victor Gao

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, June 2: Victor Gao, the former translator for Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping and current Vice President of the Center for China and Globalization, reiterated China’s uncompromising stance on Tibetan independence, stating that voices advocating for it...

Tibetan Leadership Address Tibetans in Japan Ahead of World Parliamentary Convention on Tibet

Tokyo: Sikyong Penpa Tsering, along with Speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel, Deputy Speaker Dolma Tsering Teykhang, and Parliamentarian Tenzin Phuntsok Doring, who currently in Japan to organise the World Parliamentary Convention on Tibet, addressed the Tibetan community in Tokyo on...

CTA Leadership Engages with Tibetan Community in Japan

Tokyo, Japan: On 1 June 2025, the leadership of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), comprising Speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel, Sikyong Penpa Tsering, Deputy Speaker Dolma Tsering Teykhang, and Parliamentarian Tenzin Phuntsok Doring, convened a public meeting with members of...

His Holiness the Dalai Lama Joins Recitation of Mani Mantra at Tsuglagkhang

Dharamshala: Today (on 1 June 2025), under a clear blue sky, and while the early morning temperature was still mild, His Holiness the Dalai Lama rode in an electric golfcart from his residence to the Tsuglagkhang, the Main Tibetan...

China may have spoken too soon on weaponing the Brahmaputra against India?

(TibetanReview.net, Jun01’25) – Having stopped sharing with downstream India vital hydrological data on transboundary rivers like the Brahmaputra since 2022, China has now hinted at weaponizing the Brahmaputra’s waters in support of its “all-weather friend” Pakistan, reported businesstoday.in May...

Chinese imports targeted in campaign for boycotting foreign goods in India

(TibetanReview.net, Jun01’25) – Swadeshi Jagaran Manch (SJM), the economic wing of the RSS, a Hindu religion-based nationalist volunteer organization with 5-6 million members spread across India, has on May 30 expressed disappointment that despite a call for boycott of...

School Curricula to be Monitored to Prohibit Content Which Opposes the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

Reported By Tenzin Phurbu Edited By Pema Tso Translated By TenGyal The Chinese authorities are set to investigate and monitor school curricula in primary and middle schools, as well as online platforms for content that “ advocates separatism and...

Representative Tsering Yangkey Engages with Scottish Parliament’s Tibet Group

Representative Tsering Yangkey joins Scottish Parliament Tibet Group, highlights Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday plans and strengthens advocacy ahead of Tokyo convention.

China uses colonial boarding schools for political assimilation: New report reveals exile community condemns unjust system

US-based Tibet Action Group has come up with a new report that reveals that China is using colonial boarding schools for political assimilation and not for education access. The report says that China has designed this system to assimilate...

Royal Mint Court may become Chinese mega-embassy in London

China’s new mega-embassy plan at Royal Mint Court stirs controversy in the UK over secrecy, security threats, protests, heritage concerns, and influence on government decisions. LONDON: The new Chinese Embassy is causing quite a stir in London. The new...

Silence must end on Pakistan Occupied Balochistan

There must be sustained political and diplomatic efforts to expose the reality of Pakistan Occupied Balochistan. In the long and unfinished history of betrayals in South Asia, few episodes are as deliberately buried and as morally outrageous as the...

US State Department issues annual report on access to Tibetan areas

The report highlights ongoing restrictions imposed by Chinese authorities on US diplomats, journalists, and citizens seeking to enter Tibet.

Magnitude 3.5 Earthquake Shakes Tibet At Shallow Depth, Follows Recent 3.6 Quake In Same Region

Tibet:: An earthquake of magnitude 3.5 on the Richter Scale struck Tibet on Saturday, the National Center for Seismology said (NCS).As per the NCS, the earthquake struck at a shallow depth of 10km.In a post on X, the NCS...

New report accuses China of ‘indoctrinating’ Tibetan children in boarding schools

The Tibet Action Institute (TAI) in its recent report has accused the Chinese government of using Tibetan children as a means to aggressively and forcibly assimilate Tibetans, threatening their survival as distinct people

US report says China continued to most tightly restrict access to Tibet in 2024

(TibetanReview.net, May30’25) – China continued to tightly restrict or altogether deny access to Tibet in 2024 to all categories of prospective visitors, but especially diplomats and other officials as well as journalists and Tibetans living abroad, said the US...

Tibetan Filmmakers Who Paid with Freedom Condemn Nepal Festival for Chinese Propaganda

By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA, 30 May: Two Tibetan filmmakers, who served time in Chinese prisons for their documentary work, have condemned the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival(KIMFF) for what they described as complicity in China’s effort to politicise film...

Viral video exposes devastating toll of state-approved mining in Tibet

Tsering Dhundup DHARAMSHALA, May 30: A viral video footage from Tibet circulating on Chinese social media in the second week of this month has exposed the devastating environmental toll of government-approved mining operations in Drongri village, Tsonga Township, Markham County,...

CTA President highlights rights abuses in Tokyo ahead of 9th World Parliamentarians’ Convention on Tibet

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, May 30: President Penpa Tsering of the exile Tibetan government known officially as the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) drew attention to the deteriorating human rights situation in Tibet under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during an...

Study: Tibetan Plateau neutralizes local global warming amid rising global temperature

(TibetanReview.net, May29’25) – As two of the world’s top weather agencies forecast several years of even more record-breaking heat that pushes Earth to more deadly, fiery and uncomfortable extremes, Chinese scientists have found that the Tibetan Plateau plays a...

Global groups oppose Chinese propaganda films on Tibet at Kathmandu festival

(TibetanReview.net, May29’25) – A coalition of 145 global Tibet-related organisations have called on the organizers of the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (KIMFF) to cancel “Xizang Panorama” immediately, saying it is China’s “propaganda”. Nepal has long cracked down on...

Tibetan Activist Jamyang Tenzin Continues Sixth Solo Cycle Rally

Tibetan activist Jamyang Tenzin continues solo cycle rally to Delhi, urging awareness of Panchen Lama’s disappearance and support for Tibet’s cause.