Tibetan Writer Woeser’s House Arrest Ends (Updated)
Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser reports that she and her husband Wang Lixiong have once again been...
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83 Buried in Tibet Mine Landslide (Updated)
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....
Read MoreTibetans Protest After Self-Immolations (Updated)
On Wednesday, five Tibetans self-immolated in protest against Chinese policies in Tibet. The next day, a former monk set himself alight in Tongren, Qinghai. Following this incident, thousands of people gathered in protest in...
Read MoreAnother Self-Immolation as Access to Tibetan Areas Blocked (Updated)
On Saturday, an 18-year-old nun from Aba county, Sichuan died after setting herself on fire. Her death is the latest in a string of self-immolations among Tibetans in which more than a dozen have died. Voice of America reports:...
Read MoreTwo Tibetans Set Themselves Alight In Sichuan (Updated)
After over a dozen people, including one nun, set themselves on fire in the past year in order to protest Beijing’s strict control over ethnically Tibetan areas, two more Tibetans have set themselves alight in Sichuan. One...
Read MoreTibetan News Site and Blog Host Shut Down (Updated)
Update: Wangchuk Tseten will talk about the site and its closure at Columbia University on Thursday evening (March 24). Details here. TibetCul.com, a news site and blog host with some 80,000 users, appears to have been taken...
Read MoreTibetan Environmentalist Karma Samdrup Gets 15 Years in Prison (Updated)
The New York Times reports on the trial of Tibetan businessman Karma Samdrup, as part of a broader crackdown on prominent members of the Tibetan community since the riots in Lhasa in 2008: Exile groups and rights advocates say...
Read MoreEarthquake Death Toll 1,484; Tibetans Begin Cremating Victims (Updated)
As the death toll from the Qinghai earthquake rose to 1484, Buddhist monks began cremating bodies of the dead, in a break from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of “sky burial.” AP reports: About 1,000 monks were on...
Read MoreChina Will Reopen Tibet to Tourists (Updated)
According to the head of Tibet’s tourism industry, the region is now “harmonious and safe” for foreign tourists. More from The New York Times: The Chinese government will reopen Tibet to foreign tourists on April 5 after a...
Read MoreChina Government Office Attacked in Tibetan Area (Updated)
Reuters reports on the attack of a government office in Qinghai: A government office in an ethnic Tibetan part of China’s western province of Qinghai was attacked by about 20 people after a man being probed for Tibet...
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