Infrastructure projects in Tibet have often drawn controversy for failing to balance development, human rights, and environmental protection. As CDT has covered this year, state-sponsored hydropower projects have forcibly...
Two research reports published this week underscore how authorities in Tibet have displaced local communities to impose state-sponsored projects, undermining environmental protection and human rights. The collaborative research...
A new Human Rights Watch Report on the secret trials of four Tibetan monks has shed light on repression in Tibet. At The Guardian, Helen Davidson summarized HRW’s report on the raid against a small monastery in the foothills of...
In an interview with Himal Southasian, University of British Columbia historian Tsering Shakya...
At The Washington Post, Emily Rauhala reports on government efforts to intensify state-led...
The New York Times’ Edward Wong reports on the erosion of Tibetan language by official...
The Economist examines the Communist Party’s policy of integrating Tibet with the rest of...
As British prime minister David Cameron visits China to build “a partnership for growth and...
Thursday marked the opening of a new highway linking China’s last remaining county to the...
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...
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...
Outside Magazine has published a slideshow of photos by Phil Borges from his new book, Tibet: Culture on the Edge. The book documents Tibet as it confronts the triple threat of, “global warming, development, and cultural...
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....
Beautiful scenic photos of Tibet are a controversial matter. Posting them on Twitter will often lead to rebuke from vocal activists who argue that they gloss over the realities of Chinese rule: Typical #Tool used by #China...
The governor of Tibet has spoken out against the Dalai Lama’s remarks that he may not be reincarnated upon his death, and says that he must respect Buddhist religious traditions, with the approval of the Communist Party....
Xinhua reports from Tibet on the completion of a tunnel to the last remaining county still to be linked to the national highway system: Teams from the two ends of the tunnel, part of a planned highway that will link Metok to the...
The controversial railway into Tibet is going to be expanded to Tibet’s second largest city, Shigatse (Xigaze), Xinhua reports: The Lhasa-Xigaze railway, with a budget of 13.3 billion yuan (1.95 billion U.S. dollars), is...
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