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News · 21 Jun, 2026

Poverty in China: The Reality Behind the Propaganda

In recent months, videos posted by Indian social media users showing poor neighborhoods, unemployed workers, struggling migrant families, and underdeveloped rural communities in Ch…

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News · 29 Oct, 2025

Tibet’s Shapeshifting River Reveals Signs of Environmental Instability And Human Activity Behind It

A recent NASA Earth Observatory satellite photo, featured in Live Science (October 2025), has drawn global attention to a remarkable yet worrying phenomenon in Tibet. The Yarlung Z…

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News · 22 Aug, 2025

China’s Duplicity Exposed: Navigating Global Tensions with Deceptive Diplomacy

In the volatile geopolitical landscape of 2025, China’s actions reveal a calculated strategy of duplicity, as it balances charm offensives with aggressive expansionism. While…

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News · 06 July, 2024

World Tibet Day 2024

World Tibet Day (WTD), observed annually on July 6th, is a significant event designed to honor Tibetan culture and raise awareness about the Tibetan people’s struggle for fre…

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News · 19 Oct

China Expanding Mass Surveillance Network in Tibet: Concerns Over Increased Intrusion and Oppression

A major recent development inside Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) has been the development of a smart platform called “Smart Construction Sites” in housing and municipal …

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News · 03 Aug

CCP’s Exhibition in Tunisia projects misleading image of Tibet, Hides human rights violations while boosting Tourism

The "Perceive China · Great Beauty Qinghai" exhibition, organized by the Information Office of the Qinghai Provincial People's Government, has recently taken p…

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News · 06 May

China Boosting its Military Presence in occupied Tibet: Report

A significant increase in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles by PLA has been reported in Tibet & along LAC, a recent report by Observer Research Foundation (ORF) that studies …

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News · 24 Jan

Free Tibet: New report highlights human rights abuses in Tibet

Source: Free Tibet A new report, which was released on January 23, 2023 by the London-based NGO Free Tibet and its charitable research arm, Tibet Watch, details previously unreport…

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News · 10 Jan

HH the Dalai Lama to launch CIRCA 20:23 - The ART OF HOPE

Source: CIRCA The Cultural Institute of Radical Contemporary Arts (CIRCA) will present a message of hope from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Launching Wednesday 11th January on …

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News · 09 Jan

Truck-mounted drones visible in recent satellite images of a Chinese military outpost on the Tibetan plateau: Reports

Source : Swarajya Recent satellite imagery of a Chinese military garrison on the Tibetan plateau shows truck-mounted unmanned aerial vehicles. On 08 January, Open-source intelligen…

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News · 06 Jan

AFI’s 1Tibet initiative digital platform to focus on Tibet’s past as an Independent Nation

1Tibet is a digitizing and archiving initiative that maps and digitally unites materials of historical, political and socio-cultural importance; and involves the development of a d…

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News · 26 November 2022

Seeing and Believing: China using Photo exhibitions on Tibet as tools of propaganda

Do you believe what you see? China thinks you do. Photo exhibitions are being organised inside and outside occupied Tibet to showcase the beauty of the region and the development t…

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News · 10 October 2022

CCP propaganda machines prepare Tibet to ‘welcome’ 20th Party Congress

Lhasa: With Chinese Communist Party’s 20th Party Congress set to begin on October 16th, Chinese social media handles are replete with reports and pictures of events held in o…

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News · 13 Sep 2022

'Hunger Genocide' underway in Xinjiang: Uyghurs suffer under CCP regime’s Zero COVID Policy

Uyghur NGOs in Istanbul on Monday demonstrated near the Chinese Consulate in Sariyer district against China's 'Hunger Genocide' under the pretext of controlling the Cov…

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News · 12 September 2022

CCP spreading Propaganda in the form of Books that rewrite Tibetan history

From history books to books written by Xi Jinping himself, propaganda war using books is being deployed by Chinese Communist Party to justify its wrongful claims over Tibet and hum…

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News · 29 July 2022

Brainwashing campaigns underway in Tibet as 20th CCP National Congress approaches

Lhasa: Ahead of the 20th National Congress of Chinese communist Party meeting, Chinese authorities in Tibet continue to tighten the security and people’s movement. Reports su…

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News · 29 July 2022

US Senate Passes Resolution recognizing the 25th anniversary of Radio Free Asia

Washington DC: United Senate passed a resolution "Recognizing the 25th anniversary of Radio Free Asia and its mission to provide an independent source of news to closed societ…

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News · 27 July 2022

Tibet tourism boom, 3D mural villages and & Disneyfication of Tibet

Lhasa : Tourism is booming in Tibet and this is posing risks to the region's fragile environment and historic sites. The latest in the list includes a new 3D mural village; Chi…

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News · 26 July 2022

Asia Freedom Institute that seeks to promote democracy in Tibet and China launched

Asia Freedom Institute (AFI) promotes democracy and religious freedom in Tibet and China. It works towards strengthening the community of people and organizations working on human …

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News · 25 July 2022

His Holiness the Dalai Lama Visits Jokhang, Mosques and a Church in Leh, Ladakh

Ladakh: Having arrived in Ladakh on 15th July, His Holiness the Dalai Lama undertook his first public engagements on 23rd July, making pilgrimages to the Jokhang, the principal Bud…

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News · 5 July 2022

Collection of 1200 NFTs with 30 letters of Tibetan Alphabet to be launched tomorrow

Reports are suggesting that "the first Tibetan NFT Collection" will be launched on July 6, 2022 as the world will celebrate His Holiness the Dalai Lama's 87th birthda…

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News · 5 July 2022

China ramps up brainwashing campaign in Tibet ahead of 20th Party Congress

Lhasa : The Communist Party of China holds a national congress every five years where major leadership changes are announced. According to South China Morning Post , The 20th Party…

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News · 28 June 2022

Satellite imagery suggests new PLA base coming up near Rutog County, Tibet

Lhasa : According to some sources, a new PLA Forward base is coming up near the banks of Pangong Tso, near Rutog county in Tibet. Rutog County is only around 100 km from Pangong Ts…

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News · 25 June 2022

Spreading Masks : Friends of Tibet Foundation's initiative encouraging people to mask up

Mumbai : An organisation is fighting the war against COVID19 and urging people to not give up the masks; the Mask Lab & Friends of Tibet Foundation are distributing free N95 an…

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News · 08 June 2022

Jailed Tibetan monk not allowed to meet his family: Reports

Lhasa: A Tibetan monk serving a four-and-a-half-year prison term in China for working to “split the country” has been refused permission to meet with his family, with c…

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News · 2 June 2022

The Xinjiang Police Files: New insights into the internment of Xinjiang’s Uyghurs

A new trove of hacked Chinese government files have revealed excruciating accounts of mass detention and torture of more than one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities…

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News · 24-May-22

A hacker, a researcher and thousands of photos: Inside China's secret Uyghur detention system

According to the reports, thousands of photographs from China's higly secretive system of masss concentration camps in Xinjiang and the shoot-to-kill policy of are among the hu…

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News · 18-May-22

A resistance fighter’s personal documentation brings a quiet era in Tibet's independence history to life

Camp Hale, once a US army training facility in the Colorado mountains, also served as a top-secret spot for Tibet operations, code-named STCIRCUS where the CIA trained around 250 T…

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News · 04-May-22

Satellite photographs reveal China has completed the Pangong Tso bridge

New Delhi: China has finished the construction of a strategic bridge across the Pangong Tso on land it controls near Khurnak, reported The Print. Khurnak is one of the narrowest po…

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Report · 27 November 2023

We must continue our resistance, keep the Tibet issue alive: Tsering Passang on Tibetan Resistance Movement

Excerpts from our conversation with Tsering Passang la, Founder and Chair of Global Alliance for Tibet & Persecuted Minorities (GATPM), London, England. 1. Could you share the …

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Report · 09 Oct

I want people to appreciate and celebrate our rich culture: Ngoshi Choedon on her love for art and culture

Meet a talented Tibetan Paper Collage Artist and illustrator who has embarked on a creative journey rooted in her rich cultural heritage. Though not formally trained in art, she ha…

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Report · 24 April 2023

Tibetans protest misrepresentations of His Holiness the Dalai Lama

English Translation By Dhardon Sharling This is an English translation of an article published this morning in DERSTANDARD (The Standard), a widely-read German-language newspaper b…

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Report · 26 December 2022

I want to keep exploring, learning and representing Tibet in the world of art: Illustrator Tenzin Gonpo speaks on his art, social media and Tibetanness

Tenzin Gonpo is an illustrator whose simplistic and recognizable works have gained him popularity among social media users. With illustrations depicting different aspects of Tibeta…

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Report · 10 December 2022

On the occasion of Human Rights Day, why should we discuss Tibet?

By Tenzin Samphel An 81-year-old Tibetan named Taphun set himself on fire on March 27, 2022; it was the last known case of a person on a long list of Tibetans who have self-immolat…

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Report · 11 November 2022

Tibetans and Football: An Affair to Remember

By Tenzin Samphel “In order to be a real country, you need a beer, an airline, and a football team.”: Frank Zappa Every Friday, Tenzin Sonam (name changed) rushes to Ch…

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Report · 3 November 2022

No End in Sight: Tracking Three months of Zero-COVID repression & Lockdown in Tibet

“We just want to go home.” Han migrant workers in Tibet’s capital Lhasa protesting against the extended lockdown and Chinese Communist Party’s Zero-COVID po…

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Report · 9 September 2022

Significance of the Dalai Lama’s visit to Ladakh

By Tenzin Samphel His Holiness the Dalai Lama chose the remote Himalayan region of Ladakh for his first visit outside Dharamshala since the outbreak of COVID19 in 2019. This is not…

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Report · 28 June 2022

What Chinese Media Coverage of Michelle Bachelet’s China Visit Tells Us

The visit of the United Nations Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet to China was a golden chance to probe the human rights situation in areas like Xinjiang and Tibet and to hold it acco…

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Report · 1 January 2022

Tibet Brief 2021

Introduction “My message for the Chinese government is Free Tibet. Tibet belongs to Tibetans.” Enes Kanter Freedom is perhaps the one significant voice in 2021 that mad…

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