Tibetan Father of Three Self-Immolates in Gansu
A Tibetan man died after self-immolating in a historically Tibetan region of Gansu Province,...
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LatestChina Promises to Rein In Abuse of Powers by Police
Speaking to top government officials during a policy reform meeting on Friday, Chinese President...
Mogao Buddhist Caves Face a New Threat: Tourists
The Mogao Caves in Gansu’s historic city of Dunhuang are a trove of Buddhist and Silk Road...
Beijing Restricting Hui Islam While Courting Tourists
As members of the predominately Muslim Uighur ethnic minority have found increased restrictions on...
Journalists Arrested in Gansu After Critical Reports
At Radio Free Asia, Qiao Long reports on the recent detentions of investigative journalists Zhang...
Tibetan Woman Dies After Self-Immolation in China
At the New York Times, Andrew Jacobs reports that a 20-year-old Tibetan woman died Monday after...
Minitrue: Blood Donation Out of Order?
The following censorship instruction, issued to the media by government authorities, has been...
Rush For Bottled Water After Benzene Scare
Reuters reports that people in Lanzhou have rushed to buy bottled water after authorities...
Teen Weibo User’s Request for Compensation Denied
Local authorities in Gansu have rejected a 16-year-old’s request for an apology and symbolic...
Tibetan Monk Self-Immolates in Gansu
A 43-year-old monk has died in a self-immolation in Gansu Province. From Radio Free Asia: Tsultrim...
Gansu Teen Suing Police Over Detention
16-year-old Yang Zhong, the Gansu teenager who attracted attention in September when he was...
Surveillance and Space Junk in Tibetan Region
A government white paper insisted this week that there would be no change to Chinese policy on...
Is 16-Year-Old “Rumor” Poster’s Release a Hollow Victory?
Monday saw the end of the week-long detention of Yang Zhong, a Gansu teenager accused of causing...
Gansu Red Cross: Water for Quake Victims Was Donated
In response to online criticism that the Red Cross Society of China had exaggerated the expense for water it provided to quake-hit areas of Gansu province, the charity’s Gansu branch director confirmed on Wednesday that...
9 More Dead, 8 Missing in Quake-Hit Gansu Province
The AP reports that at least nine more people are dead, and another eight missing in Gansu province after landslides. Gansu was hit by a 6.6 magnitude quake (5.9 according to the U.S. Geological Survey) on July 22, and as of...
At Least 86 Dead in Gansu Earthquake
UPDATE (July 22, 6:45 am PST): Chinese media are now reporting that 86 people have died and more than 500 have been injured in Monday’s earthquake in Min County in Gansu: #CHINAQUAKE update: The death toll has risen to 86,...
China Reaffirms “Absolute Fight” Against Dalai Lama
An article by a Central Party School scholar and reports of experimental concessions in some Tibetan areas have recently given rise to hopes that China might adopt a softer line towards the Dalai Lama. But after police allegedly...
From Sand to Skyscrapers: Inside China’s Newest City
As Beijing plans to move hundreds of millions into China’s cities, Tom Phillips reports from Lanzhou New Area, a new city under construction in Gansu province for which 700 mountains were condemned to be flattened: Its...
