Dharamshala: The Department of Education (DoE) of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) successfully concluded a four-day Jolly Phonics Workshop for English Primary Teachers on Friday, 19 June, at the Administrative Training and Welfare Society (ATWS) in Dharamshala. The workshop,...

France shut down nine alleged Chinese police stations accused of monitoring diaspora communities and pressuring dissidents living abroad.

Dharamshala: The Department of Religion and Culture, in collaboration with Namgyal Monastery, commenced the annual Maha Guru Bumtsok prayer ceremony at Thekchen Choeling Tsuglakhang in Dharamshala on 20 June 2026. The ceremony, which includes the offering of one hundred...

Washington, D.C.: Sikyong Penpa Tsering engaged in several strategic meetings on Tibet with U.S. government officials across key legislative and executive branches this week. The primary focus of Sikyong’s visit, after taking oath of his second term in the...

Geneva, 15 May 2026 — United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk delivered a stark warning to the 62nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, stating that the world is confronting a period of profound...

Wangpo Tethong* remembers Lhasang Tsering, who passed away just recently, for the remarkably cool-headed manner in which he steered the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) as its President when His Holiness the Dalai Lama made his Strasbourg proposal in 1988...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, June 19: French authorities have dismantled nine alleged clandestine Chinese police stations operating across the country, marking one of Europe’s most significant crackdowns on Beijing’s purported overseas surveillance and influence networks. According to reports, French counterintelligence...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, June 19: In a development to strengthen grassroots democracy in the Tibetan exile setup, the Chief Justice Commissioner Yeshi Wangmo of the Tibetan Supreme Justice Commission (TSJC), the highest judicial body of the Central Tibetan Administration...

(TibetanReview.net, Jun19’26) – China’s ruling Communist Party has coined a new phrase to make Xi Jinping the country’s ideological Czar on Party Building, stressing governing the party with discipline and unified leadership, under him of course. In this connection,...

UN rights chief Volker Türk urged China to repeal its Ethnic Unity Law, warning it could restrict Tibetan language, religion and culture.

Chinese authorities reportedly demolished Mani stone mounds, burned prayer flags and tightened controls across Hainan Tibetan Prefecture.

According to Phayul, Congressman John Moolenaar, chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, has joined as a co-sponsor of the bipartisan Tibet Atrocities Determination Act.

According to the ETGE press release, the legislation, introduced by Senator John Curtis and co-sponsored by Senator Jeff Merkley, seeks to strengthen US support for Uyghurs through diplomatic engagement, foreign assistance initiatives, Uyghur-language training for Foreign Service Officers, and...

Dharamshala: Secretary Dhondul Dorjee has formally assumed office as Secretary of the Department of Security under the Central Tibetan Administration, following his tenure as Secretary of the Department of Religion and Culture. A charge handover ceremony was held at...

Dharamshala: The Political Secretary of the Kashag, Tashi Gyatso Shadrong, has officially assumed charge as Cabinet Secretary (pro tem) of the Central Tibetan Administration. To mark the transfer of responsibilities, a handover ceremony was held at the Cabinet Secretariat....

Dharamshala, 18 June 2026: Speaker Dolma Tsering Teykhang of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile extended her deepest condolences on demise of Professor Robert A. F. Thurman. In a letter to Nena Von Schlebrugge, the Speaker wrote, “We are deeply saddened by the...

(TibetanReview.net, Jun18’26) – China has on Jun 15 sought to drive home to visiting Nepali Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal the point that the West, especially the United States, should not be trusted whereas “good neighbour” China is always there...

(Aug 3, 1941 – Jun 16, 2026) OBITUARY (TibetanReview.net, Jun18’26) – Professor Robert AF Thurman, the first Westerner to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist monk by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and who went on to become an...

June 18, 2026 The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) is pleased to welcome four Lodi Gyari Fellows through the Washington Internship Program for Tibetan Americans (WIPTA) for the summer 2026 cohort. Representing the next generation of Tibetan American leaders,...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, June 18: Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party on Monday joined as a co-sponsor of the bipartisan Tibet Atrocities Determination Act, legislation that seeks a formal U.S. assessment of whether China’s treatment...

When Chinese engineering troops crossed into the disputed Doklam plateau on 16 June 2017 and began extending a road southward toward the Jampheri Ridge, they triggered a 73-day… The post The Road That Shook the Himalayas: How Doklam Exposed...

London | 18 June 2026 | Tsering Passang I was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Kasur Chope Paljor Tsering-la on 11 June 2026. His life was one of remarkable service, unwavering dedication and steadfast commitment to...

US Rep. John Moolenaar cosponsored a Tibet bill seeking a State Department determination on genocide or crimes against humanity.

By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA, 18 June: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has called on China to repeal its newly adopted “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress,” warning that the legislation risks further restricting the...

China is building the world's largest hydroelectric dam in the lower parts of the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet, about 50 kilometres from the border with India.