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Narrow escape for Dalai Lama’s South Africa Representative in second nighttime arson attack in three months

(TibetanReview.net, Oct16’26) – The office and residence housing the Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in South Africa’s capital Pretoria has been severely damaged in a life-threatening arson attack for the second time in three months on Oct...

Stapled visa row prevents Arunachal weightlifter from crucial world championship meet in China

(TibetanReview.net, Oct16’26) – India has been forced to withdraw a weightlifter belonging to Arunachal Pradesh from the upcoming Senior World Weightlifting Championships to be held in Ningbo after Chinese authorities indicated that he would be issued a visa stapled...

Tibetan Sikyong globally highlights Tibet issues while attending Forum 2000 meeting in Czech Republic

(TibetanReview.net, Oct15’26) – Visiting the Czech capital Prague for the 30th Forum 2000 Conference (Oct 11-13), Sikyong Penpa Tsering, the executive head of the Central Tibetan Administration, met with lawmakers and other leaders from several countries as well as...

India reiterates border stability condition for normal ties as China rejects its Ladakh map assertions

(TibetanReview.net, Oct14’26) – India’s external affairs minister S Jaishankar has on Oct 13 made an emphatic reiteration of New Delhi’s position that if China wanted a normal bilateral relationship, the border between the two countries had to be stable....

China harnessing AI microdramas in ‘mobile-first strategy’ to counter Tibet critics, others

(TibetanReview.net, Oct13’26) – The rapid boom in AI microdramas has prompted the government of China to adopt it and the technology underlying it to modernise its propaganda messaging, including on the issue of Tibet. AI microdramas are serialized, vertical...

Heavy snowfall causes losses of homes, herds in Ngari in Tibet, leaves many people stranded

(TibetanReview.net, Oct12’26) – Sudden heavy snowfall is stated to have severely affected normal life in remote western Tibet’s Ngari prefecture, resulting in loss of electricity, collapse of residential buildings, deaths of domestic herds, and many visitors being stranded, including...

Another former top Chinese leader in Tibet sacked for corruption

(TibetanReview.net, Oct11’26) – Ding Yexian, who last served as deputy head of the standing committee of the People’s Congress of Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) from 2021 has been expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC), reported China’s state...

China’s Panchen for aligning all religious work in Tibet with China’s national assimilation law

(TibetanReview.net, Oct11’26) – The Chinese government-appointed Panchen Lama Gyaltsen Norbu has on Sep 30 called for all religious and other work in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) to remain aligned with the overall work of the Party and the Party-state,...

Dalai Lama congratulate 2026 Nobel Peace laureate, recalls her raising of Tibet concerns with China

(TibetanReview.net, Oct10’26) – The Dalai Lama has on Oct 10 recalled global human rights jurist Navi Pillay’s call on China to address the underlying issues in Tibet while congratulating her on being awarded the Nobel Peace prize for 2026...

European Parliament’s China-policy report condemnsforced assimilation drive in Tibet

(TibetanReview.net, Oct09’26) – The European Parliament has on Oct 7 adopted a set of policy recommendations on EU-China political relations drafted by its Committee on Foreign Affairs which among numerous other things strongly condemns China’s intensifying campaign of mandatory “Sinicisation” and forced...