From the New York Times: At the Doulong Store, the musty shelves are stocked with the necessities for Tibetan nomads. There are kettles for yak butter tea and bolts of colorful fabric for traditional Tibetan robes and clothing. A nomad affluent enough to use a light bulb in his tent can buy an electric generator. […]
Read MoreFrom The Times: Much of Lhasa’s old-world charm and ways of life unchanged for centuries have disappeared. Average annual incomes have nearly quadrupled to ¬£570 since 1986. Chinese tourists were virtually unknown in Tibet 20 years ago. In 1987 it had 47,000 visitors; this year the figure is expected to approach 3million. Most will be […]
Read MoreIn the New York Times, actor Richard Gere, who is also Chairman of the International Campaign for Tibet, wrote an op-ed about the new Qinghai-Tibet Railway: THE opening this month of the final segment of world’s highest railway, from Beijing to Lhasa, Tibet, is a staggering engineering achievement and a testimony to the developing greatness […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: For centuries Tibet has been the embodiment of an exotic fantasy. A Buddhist Shangri-La, mysterious and remote, locked away within high mountains from the frenetic modernity of the outside world. But as the first train ever pulled up to Lhasa station on July 1 having hurtled across frozen tundra for more than […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Naydup Gyatse, chief of this settlement on the grasslands of the high Tibetan plain, does not know the name of China’s president. Nor does he want to. On the map, this land is part of China’s Sichuan province. But to the 300 people who live here, it is part of greater […]
Read MoreFrom The Wired magazine: China’s new 1,200-mile railway crosses some of the harshest terrain on the planet. Plug in your oxygen supply. All aboard the Tibet express. About 1,000 miles from the railway’s starting point, on the Yellow Sea city of Qingdao, past rank after rank of new apartment complexes, Amir Levin walks through a […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency via Shanghai Daily: Travelers planning to take the new rail line from Beijing to Tibet are advised to bring along a book to pass the time – maybe two. The 4,064-kilometer trip will take 47 hours and 28 minutes. Authorities in Beijing yesterday set the timetables for the first trains that […]
Read MoreFrom PTI, via The Hindu News: Chinese archaeologists claim that relics unearthed in areas along the strategic Qinghai-Tibet Railway have proved that human beings lived there atleast 30,000 years ago. Experts with Qinghai Provincial Archaeological Institute said they collected large number of chipped stone tools including knives and pointed implements dating back 30,000 years in […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: At a ceremony in Brussels, he (the Dalai Lama) presented a Tibetan butter lamp to the Herge Foundation representing Tintin books. The book Tintin in Tibet was published in the same year that the Dalai Lama fled the Himalayan kingdom. He also presented a lamp and silk scarf to fellow Nobel Peace […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily via Xinhua: Officials and experts yesterday called for preparatory steps to be taken in the construction of the final west route of the south-to-north water diversion project, to bring much needed water to parched Northwest China. Once completed the project will carry urgently needed water from southern China through a series of […]
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