(TibetanReview.net, Oct14’19) – As Chinese President Xi Jinping left after concluding his Oct 12-13 state visit, Nepal is to charge 24 Tibet activists, most of them Nepali Citizens of Tibetan descend, for indecent behaviour, reported english.onlinekhabar.com Oct 13. It is not clear what actions on their part earned them this […]

(TibetanReview.net, Oct13’19) – Police in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu had arrested 22 alleged free-Tibet movement campaigners and human rights activists over the past three days on suspicion of planning to hold protests during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Oct 12-13 state visit to the country, reported thehimalayantimes.com Oct 13. Five were held […]

(TibetanReview.net, Oct07’19) – Apart from writer and independence activist Mr Tenzin Tsundue, police in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu have taken into custody eight other Tibetan activists on suspicion of planning to protest during the Oct 11-13 informal summit of visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister […]

(TibetanReview.net, Oct06’19) – Police in Viluppuram district of the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu have taken into preventive custody on Oct 5 Tibetan writer and independence activist Mr Tenzin Tsundue ahead of an informal summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He is expected to […]

(TibetanReview.net, Oct04’19) – Richmond, a city in western Contra Costa County of the US state of California, has decided to rename a part of its Huntington Avenue as ‘Dalai Lama Avenue’. The decision was taken by unanimous vote on Oct 1 by the Richmond City Council. On July 16, the […]

(TibetanReview.net, Oct02’19) – Forty Tibetans, including 18 females, were taken into custody after they staged a protest near the Chinese embassy in New Delhi on the occasion of China’s 70th national day on Oct 1, according to several Indian news media reports. The protest, carried out by activists of the […]

(TibetanReview.net, Sep27’19) – Deputy Speaker Acharya Yeshi Phuntsok of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile was on Sep 26 honoured by a New Delhi-based prominent Indian non-governmental organization for excellence in leadership, said the exile Tibetan administration on its Tibet.net website Sep 27. Acharya Yeshi Phuntsok was awarded the prestigious ‘Dr. Shyamaprasad Mookerjee […]

(TibetanReview.net, Sep16’19) – Tribal neighbours of a 56-year-old Tibetan refugee settlement in the Indian state of Odisha (formerly Orissa) are demanding the eviction of the settlement residents, reported newindianexpress.com Sep 15. The report said the tribals were accusing the Tibetans of being in illegal encroachment of the land which was […]

(TibetanReview.net, Sep10’19) – Brushing aside pleas from local bystanders and, in fact, warning them against speaking about it, police in Nepal’s northwestern corner district of Humla have on Sep 5 evening dragged away and handed over to Chinese border forces six Tibetans who had just crossed over to seek asylum, […]

(TibetanReview.net, Aug29’19) – Sogyal Lakar, better known as Sogyal Rinpoche, one of the most prominent Tibetan Buddhist masters living in the West, best known for a long time by his bestseller The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying but whose reputation was badly sullied in recent years by allegations of […]