(TibetanReview.net, Jul11’19) – Ten years ago, Tibet’s capital Lhasa was a city of 100,000 Chinese, 50,000 Tibetans and 20,000 sex workers. Now, the population and infrastructure in the city has grown by 500 per cent, reported tribuneindia.com Jul 10, citing two Australian documentary filmmakers after their recent trip to Tibet. […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jul02’19) – After carrying out a further expulsion campaign, China has now set the upper limit for the number of resident monks and nuns at the Yachen Gar Tibetan Buddhist Centre in what is now part of Sichuan province at 4,700, a steep cut from around 10,000 monks, nuns […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jul01’19) – Demand for meat has seen dramatic rise in China in recent decades as a result of the country’s phenomenal economic growth which has seen many hundreds of millions of people lifted out of poverty. And as supplies of pork, the country’s main high nutrition diet, have been […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jun27’19) – In the backdrop of continuing increase since data began to be collected in 1981, temperature in Tibet’s capital Lhasa, as well as in some other places, was the highest thus far on Jun 24, reported China’s official Xinhua news agency Jun 25. The reading in Lhasa on […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jun25’19) – China has decorated the replacement 11th Panchen Lama it appointed back in 1995 in place of the one recognized by the Dalai Lama with a third title: the president of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Branch of the Buddhist Association of China. Gyaltsen Norbu, 29, is already a […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jun24’19) – China said Jun 21 that there was a new case of African swine fever in a district in Qinghai Province that was the birthplace of the current Dalai Lama. The outbreak occurred in a village in Shihuiyao County of Pingan (Tibetan: Tsongkhakhar) District, Haidong (Tsoshar) City, reported […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jun19’19) – China said Jun 18 that had intensified its crackdown on gang crimes in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) as it entered a key year in its strictest national campaign. And it explained that in the case of Tibet, such crimes were usually related to what it called separatist […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jun08’19) – Chinese authorities have been expelling monks and nuns from a sprawling monastic study complex in Palyul (Chinese: Baiyu) County of Karze (Ganzi) Prefecture in Sichuan Province over the past one month or so, with the move still underway, reported the Tibetan Service of rfa.org Jun 7. The […]

(TibetanReview.net, May30’19) – Ahead of celebrations marking his 84th birthday, Chinese authorities have Launched a new push to enforce its ban on pictures of the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, even in remote nomadic locations with little or no routine Chinese presence in Karze (Chinese: Ganzi) Prefecture of Sichuan […]

(TibetanReview.net, May30’19) – As authorities launched a renewed push to strengthen a ban on pictures of the Dalai Lama in Karze (Chinese: Ganzi) Prefecture of Sichuan Province ahead of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader’s 84th birthday, visiting top Chinese leader Wang Yang has “underlined efforts to curb separatists, maintain normal […]