By Khedroob Thondup For sixty-seven years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has occupied Tibet, attempting to transform a nation with its own language, culture, and spiritual traditions into a compliant appendage of Beijing. Today, the CCP has reached a...

By Khedroob Thondup China’s proposed mega-dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo River, located approximately 50 miles from the Indian border, represents one of the most consequential hydropower projects in the Himalayas. While Beijing frames the dam as a renewable energy...

By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA, 31 August: The toll from last week’s devastating floods in Tibet’s Kyirong region appears to be significantly higher than figures released by Chinese authorities, according to new information gathered by the International Campaign for Tibet...

By Khedroob Thondup When a glacier avalanche struck Tibet recently, the devastation was immediate and profound. Entire communities were left in shock, families torn apart, and countless lives disrupted. Yet what stands out most is not the natural disaster...

By Khedroob Thondup When a glacier high above the Langtang Lirung peak sheared away and plummeted more than two kilometres into the valley below, the earth itself shuddered. The ice avalanche released seismic energy equivalent to a 5.2 magnitude...

By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA, August 27: A catastrophic flood along the Nepal-Tibet border on Wednesday devastated Tibetan communities on both sides of the frontier, washing away homes and entire settlement clusters in Nepal while hundreds remain missing across the...

By Khedroob Thondup The Tibetan Plateau is often called the “Third Pole” for its vast reserves of freshwater locked in glaciers and rivers. Yet beneath this image of abundance lies a fragile geological reality: active fault lines, frequent earthquakes,...

By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA, 27 August: The 25th Annual General Conference of the Tibetan Cooperatives in India opened here on Wednesday, with speakers calling on Tibetan cooperative societies to adapt to changing economic conditions, demographic shifts, and evolving consumer...

By Khedroob Thondup The rise of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has forced the world to confront a paradox: a nation that has achieved extraordinary economic success while simultaneously tightening autocratic control...

By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA, 25 August: High-stakes border negotiations are currently underway in Beijing between Indian and Chinese special representatives, with no official updates on the meeting’s contents yet as the discussions continue. National Security Advisor Ajit Doval arrived...