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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…
Read more →China and Bangladesh’s Coordinated Pressure on India: Echoes of Tibet in Arunachal and the Seven Sisters
As India navigates heightened tensions with Pakistan, a more insidious challenge emerges from its eastern flank. China, in a brazen act of cartographic aggression, has renamed 27 p…
Read more →India’s Hydroelectric Push in Arunachal Pradesh Irked China
China has reacted angrily to reports of India expediting the construction of hydroelectric power projects in the Himalayan region, where Beijing has made territorial claims. The Ch…
Read more →China’s lust for lithium from Tibet: Ten Things you should Know
Here are 10 things you need to know about lithium mining in Tibet. The following points have been taken from this key article written by Gabriel Lafitte, one of the foremost enviro…
Read more →China conducts Military Training for students at Tibet University for Nationalities
Reports indicate that students at Tibet University for Nationalities, have been subjected to military-style training activities, including drills and exercises to “build a so…
Read more →China`s Foreign Minister Wang Yi asserts territorial claims in Tibet, Disregards Regional Tensions
In a recent forum held in Tibet, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi heightened tensions in the region by calling for mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity among na…
Read more →Explained: China`s Tool of Renaming to Assert its Propaganda
China has once again stirred controversy with its move to rename 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh, an Indian state that Beijing claims as South Tibet. The Chinese Ministry of Civil A…
Read more →Chinese team is in Nepal to research a Himalayan railway project that would connect Tibet to Kathmandu: Reports
Source: SCMP Chinese survey and design experts are in Kathmandu to conduct feasibility studies for a 170km railway project that has been in the works since 2016. The Belt and Road …
Read more →China to start Tibet-Nepal Railway, concerns that environmental impacts are not being considered
Source: The Third Pole On August 10, China announced that within a year it will start a feasibility study for the ambitious Tibet-Nepal Railway project. The announcement, which cam…
Read more →China’s Tibet-Nepal Rail line project: Concerns
The construction of Tibet-Nepal Railway line is underway and reports suggest that just 121km (75 miles) of track remains to be built. The railway would cross the Himalayas from the…
Read more →Chinese Panchen Lama visits Lhoka prefecture, Tibet
Lhasa: Chinese appointed Panchen Lama Gyaltsen Norbu visited Lhoka prefecture in southern Tibet, according to Chinese social media reports. Lhoka (or Shannan) is the most southerly…
Read more →“Examining Reality of Tibet’s History Extremely Vital and Beneficial for Resumption of Sino-Tibetan Dialogueâ€: Sikyong Penpa Tsering
Kollegal: Sikyong Penpa Tsering of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) whose visit to five Southern Tibetan settlements is underway reached Dhondenling Kollegal settlement. Hi…
Read more →China fines clothing brand JNBY for excluding Tibet in map
Beijing: China’s market supervisor has fined the country’s clothing brand JNBY 800,000 yuan ($120,140) for using a national map on its official website which excluded T…
Read more →Genkhang Rigzin Choedon has been appointed as the new Representative of the Tibetan Office in Brussels.
Brussels : Ms. Genkhang Rigzin Choedon, who was recently appointed as the new representative for the Office of Tibet in Brussels, officially took over from Mr. Tashi Phuntsok, the …
Read more →110th Anniversary of the 13th Dalai Lama’s Tibetan Declaration of Independence
Today - February 13, 2023 – marks the 110th anniversary of the historic Declaration of Independence; Tibet’s leader, the 13th Dalai Lama proclaimed in 1913 that his cou…
Read more →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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