Young Tibetans Self-immolate in Protest
Voice of America reports that a 22-year-old Tibetan man named Drugkho self-immolated in Sichuan on...
Dec 14, 2018
Voice of America reports that a 22-year-old Tibetan man named Drugkho self-immolated in Sichuan on...
Feb 20, 2018
Lhasa’s Jokhang temple, a sacred Tibetan Buddhist site dating back in parts to the seventh...
Nov 29, 2017
Citing Tibetan sources, Radio Free Asia reports that a 63-year-old Tibetan monk named Tenga has...
Feb 23, 2016
Tibetan writer and blogger Druklo has been sentenced to three years in prison by a court in...
Nov 16, 2015
While in China last week, U.S. House Minority Leader and longtime critic of Beijing’s human...
Feb 24, 2015
The Tibetan Review reports that thousands of Tibetans in the province of Sichuan defied government...
Jun 6, 2014
Imprisoned Tibetan filmmaker and activist Dhondup Wangchen has been released from jail six years...
Dec 22, 2013
At The New Yorker, former China correspondent Evan Osnos predicts next year’s top ten China...
Sep 27, 2013
Photographer Laurent Zyblerman and writer Eric Meyer were two of the first Western journalists...
May 27, 2012
Two unidentified Tibetan monks reportedly set fire to themselves in front of Lhasa’s Jokhang Temple on Sunday. From Radio Free Asia: “The security forces arrived immediately and put out the fire and all the tourists in the area...
Feb 17, 2012
State news site Tibet.cn celebrates a French newspaper’s departure from the Western “double standards”, “biased reports” and “Cold War mentality” often lamented by Chinese officials,...
Feb 10, 2012
This photograph (via CDT Chinese) was taken in 2010 in Kangding city, in the Ganzi/Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of western Sichuan. The poster’s comment: “As I was out for a stroll, I happened to see a...
Apr 16, 2011
Recent standoff between Chinese military forces and Tibetan monks in Ngaba County in Sichuan has been escalating over the past month. The Dalai Lama has now spoken out, hoping Tibetan protesters will show greater restraint and...
Apr 9, 2009
Two Tibetans were sentenced to death and two to death with a two-year reprieve for their role in the unrest in Lhasa last March. From the Guardian: According to the Xinhua news agency, Lobsang Gyaltsen will be executed for arson...
Mar 28, 2009
To recognize the 50th anniversary of the PRC’s rule of Tibet and the Dalai Lama’s exile, China has declared March 28th to be a holiday that marks Tibetan emancipation. From Jason Subler of Reuters: China marked its...
Mar 26, 2009
For the China Media Project, David Bandurski looks at coverage of Tibet in the Chinese media, starting from a recent headline carried by all the major official media in recent days: “Treasuring the fruits of democratic...
Jul 31, 2008
[Editor’s Note: Since March, a series of events including unrest in Lhasa and protests following the Olympic torch relay, have brought to the surface a clash between nationalist elements of the Chinese public and...
Jul 27, 2008
[Editor’s Note: Since March, a series of events including unrest in Lhasa and protests following the Olympic torch relay, have brought to the surface a clash between nationalist elements of the Chinese public and...