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...
Read MoreThe Chinese government has begun work on a £3-billion (approximately US$4.65 billion) theme park on the outskirts of Lhasa, the capital of the troubled Tibetan Autonomous Region. Despite the huge potential economic interests...
Read MoreState 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,...
Read MoreThe Australian examines a Chinese mining company’s “land grab” in New South Wales, following purchases of coal-rich farmland amounting to AU$213 million. Michael Clift is a sixth-generation Liverpool Plains...
Read MoreThe following article was published by the Hong Kong-based Ta Kung Pao, translated by CDT. The Information Office of the State Council recently issued a notice requiring all domestic news websites to implement a real-name...
Read MoreBaidu Post Bar 百度贴吧, operated by the China’s leading search engine company, Baidu, is one of the country’s most popular online communities, where individual discussion communities (“post bars”) are generated by Baidu...
Read MoreRowan Callick writes in the Australian: Last weekend a Chinese blogger posted the following comment on the website sina.com: “When a country gets the right to host the Olympic Games, it makes other countries jealous. China...
Read MoreFrom The Los Angeles Times: It wasn’t supposed to be this way. When China seven years ago won the right to hold this summer’s Olympics, the nation erupted in joy, confident it would finally receive the accolades it...
Read More“Photos and footage of the bloody riots and protests in Tibet continue to make their way onto the web, despite the Chinese authorities’ best efforts to both spin the news and stifle reports emerging from the...
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: Yahoo! goes further than any of its rivals in blocking information on Tibet, the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and the Falun Gong spiritual movement. Ma says it is as much of a philosophical choice as a...
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