(TibetanReview.net, Nov06’19) – China has been the world’s worst abuser of internet freedom for the fourth consecutive year, while Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia were not far behind, according to Washington-based independent international rights monitoring group Freedom House, releasing its latest report Nov 5. The report, Freedom on the Net 2019: […]

Dr M N Rajesh, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. This article appeared in the Special Issue 2015 edition of the Tibetan Review, published in association with the JNU Tibet Forum. Excerpt from the 1st annual symposium in memory of Prof. Dawa Norbu organized on April 7, 2015. Prof Dawa […]

(TibetanReview.net, Mar03’19) – China said Mar 1 that it had opened its first 5G internet base station in Tibet, located in capital Lhasa, with plans to launch tests to enable the facility to reach people living in the region’s remote farming areas as the next step. China Mobile’s Tibet branch […]

(TibetanReview.net, May19, 2018) – China said May 17 that it will spend some 3 billion yuan (US$ 471 million) to connect 98 percent of administrative villages in the Tibet Autonomous Region with optical fibre communication under a universal telecom service project by the end of this year. “The newly-established network […]