Tibetan Review
RFA announces over 90% staff lay off, including at its Tibetan service
(TibetanReview.net, May03’25) – Radio Free Asia (RFA) has said May 2 that it will lay off almost all of its staff and close production in several languages, including the Tibetan service, after President Donald Trump cut off funding, effective...
Kasur Tashi Wangdi (1947-2025)
(TibetanReview.net, May02’25) –Kasur Tashi Wangdi, one of the longest serving and most familiar faces in the senior rung of the Tibetan government in exile for decades, has breathed his last in Ottawa, Canada, on May 1, aged 78. He...
China parsimonious in opening Tibet for Indian pilgrims?
(TibetanReview.net, May01’25) – China is to begin letting in Indian pilgrims to receive Mt Everest and lake Mansarovar blessings in eastern Tibet’s Ngari Prefecture from Jan 30 for those joining the government-organized trip after a gap of some five...
European parliament asks China, Vietnam to account for Tibetan lama’s custodial death
(TibetanReview.net, Apr30’25) – The European Parliament has on Apr 30 joined the growing international call on China and Vietnam to account for the arrest of a revered Buddhist leader from Tibet, his sudden death under suspicious circumstances in their...
UN a playing field for China’s rights repression policy?
(TibetanReview.net, Apr29’25) – China has been flooding the UN, including its Human Rights Council in Geneva, with an army of fake NGOs to monitor and intimidate rights activists as well as to defend and heap glowing praises on Beijing’s...
China confirms resumption of annual Indian pilgrimage to eastern Tibet, cites 75th diplomatic ties anniversary
(TibetanReview.net, Apr28’25) – China has confirmed today India’s External Affairs Ministry statement Apr 22 that the annual Indian pilgrimage to Mt Kailash and lake Mansarovar will resume and take place over Jun-Aug this year after a hiatus of five...
A Pakistan hitch on road to normalizing Sino-India ties?
(TibetanReview.net, Apr27’25) – As India and China marked progress in normalizing bilateral ties with the announcement of the resumption of the Kailash-Mansarovar pilgrimage in western Tibet for Indian believers from Jun 30 after a gap of nearly five years,...
Tibet’s ‘stolen Child’, the 11th Panchen Lama, highlighted on his 36th birthday
(TibetanReview.net, Apr26’25) – As China continues to keep in hiding the 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima in defiance of decades-long global demands for access to him, including from the United Nations, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have...
London auction to feature rare 14th Dalai Lama enthronement pictures from British gov’t witness’ collection
(TibetanReview.net, Apr25’25) – Ahead of the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday, which the Central Tibetan Administration plans to commemorate with a year-long series of events internationally, and as China remains determined to select the 15th “reincarnation” of him in defiance...
Judge halts shutdown of VOA, RFA etc in a decision condemned by White House
(TibetanReview.net, Apr24’25) – After a temporary block on his March order by a New York judge, a federal district judge in Washington, DC, has on Apr 23 ordered the Trump administration to restore all jobs and funding for the...















