Late last week, censors wiped Weibo clean of posts documenting the chaos of pandemic control measures in Lhasa, Tibet. In mid-August, Tibet began reporting thousands of new cases in the region’s first documented outbreak...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Lhasa’s Jokhang temple, a sacred Tibetan Buddhist site dating back in parts to the seventh...
American fast food giant Yum! Brands—a company that’s seen its share of profit and scandal...
The New York Times’ Edward Wong reports on the erosion of Tibetan language by official...
As Ai Weiwei asks supporters to drop donated Lego through the sunroofs of strategically parked...
In a two-part interview at The New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson talks to Tibetan writer...
The Australian’s Rowan Callick reports that Australian ambassador Frances Adamson was...
At The Asian Review of Books, the University of Sydney’s Kerry Brown reviews Gabriel Lafitte’s forthcoming book, Spoiling Tibet: China and Resource Nationalism on the Roof of the World, available October 8th: A few...
Cyril Payen, a correspondent for France 24, got rare access to Tibet with a seven-day visa. He interviews activists and shows footage of the severe security presence in Lhasa, as well as the construction around the sacred...
The Chinese government’s development of Tibet in recent years is resulting in the destruction of many historically and culturally significant areas, especially in Lhasa. A recent post by Tibetan writer Woeser looks at the...
Tibet’s environment is in jeopardy due to mining and hydropower operations, but despite increasing damage, many are afraid to speak up due to the sensitive nature of Tibet-related topics. Even for Southern Weekly, one of the...
The Economist examines vigorous exploitation of Tibet’s natural resources in light of a landslide that killed 83 at a mine near Lhasa last week: THE ecology of the Tibetan plateau, noted the Ministry of Land and Resources...
Rescue efforts have been halted at a mine near Lhasa due to fears that fresh landslides might add to the toll from Friday’s disaster. 36 bodies have been recovered, and little hope remains of any survivors among the 83...
Rescue efforts by thousands of soldiers, armed police and firefighters turned up a single body on Saturday [see update below], over a day and a half after two million cubic meters of mud and rock buried 83 miners near Lhasa....
In the New Statesman, Tibetan dissident Tsering Woeser writes about the tightening government control over Tibet as a result of recent protests: Early one summer morning in August, travelling from Golmud to Lhasa on the...
Cross-Talk Comics looks at the last nine months in news and the government response to many...
As China’s inbound international tourism continues to grow along with the numbers of potential domestic ticket buyers, China is experiencing an amusement park boom, and is expected to have more theme parks than the USA by...
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