(TibetanReview.net, Sep10’20) – Thousands of Tibetan farmers and nomads are being forced out by the Chinese government from their ancestral land in Themchen (Chinese: Tianjin) County of Tsonub (Haixi) Prefecture, Qinghai Province, under a plan to turn their hometown area into a 50,200 square kilometre Mount Qilian National Park. The […]

(TibetanReview.net, Sep05’20) – In a move to further assimilate Tibet and boost internal security and border strength amid increased border tension with India, China has embarked on a plan to spend more than 1 trillion yuan ($146 billion) to accelerate infrastructure investment in occupied Tibet, reported Reuters Sep 4, citing […]

(TibetanReview.net, Sep02’20) – Illegal coal mining has been going on in the Qilian Mountains in Muli town of Haixi Prefecture, Qinghai Province, since 2006, reported China’s official chinadaily.com.cn Sep 1, suggesting that there is nothing to stop such environmentally devastating exploitation of mineral resources in Chinese ruled Tibet until the […]

(TibetanReview.net, Sep01’20) – All the 74 counties in Tibet Autonomous Region have now been linked by asphalt roads and are accessible by buses, reported China’s official Xinhua news agency Sep 1. Besides, all the 476 townships and 2,050 administrative villages in it are accessible by buses, it said. The region […]

(TibetanReview.net, Aug26’20) – China said Aug 25 that its appointee to the position of the 11th Panchen Lama, Tibet’s second most prominent religious figure, after disappearing the Dalai Lama-recognized reincarnation of the 10th Panchen Lama back in 1995, had gone back to Beijing after a 15-day trip to his occupied […]

(TibetanReview.net, Aug25’20) – Chinese police have arrested a Tibetan man and his nephew in Yushu Prefecture of Qinghai province over the weekend after they had tried to dissuade local Tibetans from signing away their rights to their grazing land, angering the local Chinese authorities, reported the Tibetan Service of rfa.org […]

(TibetanReview.net, Aug16’20) – Visiting the region on an inspection tour, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Aug 14 called for efforts in safeguarding the security and advancing the economic and social development of Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), reported China’s official cgtn.com Aug 15. He visited the border […]

(TibetanReview.net, Aug16’20) – China under President Xi Jinping appear to have decided to focus central government funding in Tibet more on infrastructure and development projects meant especially to strengthen internal stability and external security, leaving the local government to raise its own resources for the other governmental purposes. As a […]

(TibetanReview.net, Aug15’20) – Illegal mining in collusion with corrupt locally posted party and government leaders in Chinese ruled Tibet continue for many years, even for more than ten years, until Beijing finally happens to take notice and order an investigation, a fact most recently illustrated by the ongoing crackdown on […]

(TibetanReview.net, Aug12’20) – China says it is stepping up efforts to relocate Tibetans to the border with India and Bhutan and developing infrastructure there to boost both national security and quality of life, reported China’s party mouthpiece globaltimes.cn Aug 11, citing residents and officials. It has called the resettlement voluntary, […]