Dramatic new photos obtained by RFA Tibetan Service’s Dolkar and a citizen journalist, show Chinese security forces detaining up to 30 Tibetans in Shigatse after an anti-mining protest. On May 21st, local Tibetans in the U Yuk Sogchen sub-district of Namling Shigatse protested environmentally destructive gold mining activities which have affected their only sources of drinking water, grazing ground for cattle, and have brought an increasing number of Chinese miners to the region. Read More
For those looking for the next spiritual leader of Tibet after the Dalai Lama, the ageing monk's 75th birthday ceremony this month offered some clues. Sitting next to the Nobel laureate at the front of the stage was the imposing figure of the Karmapa, a thick-set 26-year-old with the highest profile among a cast of young lamas who might fill the void that will one day be left.
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China National Gold Group (CNGG) said Monday the first phase of its Gyama polymetallic mine in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, began production Monday, giving a boost to economic development in the mineral-rich region. Read More
While announcing plans to boost tourism along the Nepal-Tibet border, China has blocked a Buddha rally from Nepal to the ongoing Shanghai Expo 2010 due to jitters that it may trigger fresh anti-China feelings in Tibet.
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When British climbing legend George Mallory took his iconic 1921 photo of Mount Everest's north face, the mighty, river-shaped glacier snaking under his feet seemed eternal. Decades of pollution and global warming later, modern mountaineer David Breashears has reshot the picture at the same spot -- and proved an alarming reality.
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Tourists, foreign and Chinese, mingle with Tibetans, browsing for ethnic jewelry and intricate Buddhist paintings. Child beggars hold up grubby hands asking for a few yuan. Old women prostrate themselves in front of Buddhist temples. Armed soldiers and police patrol the streets, especially in Lhasa’s old Tibetan quarter, in a reminder of Beijing’s tight grip on the restive region. “The fear is all around,” says one nervous young businessman, his features weathered by the harsh climate and high altitude.
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India has denied permission to Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the 17th Karmapa who is the third most respected Tibetan monk reincarnate and is recognised by both the Dalai Lama and China, to go on a two-week religious tour to the US this month.
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China is pumping money into the region, hoping that raising Tibetan living standards, what it calls leap-frog development, will win over Tibetan support. But it seems that fear and repression are at least as important in ensuring China keeps control in Tibet.
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In the new millennium, when the Tibetan language is thriving in places like Bhutan, Ladakh and, curiously, on the internet, it is coming under systematic attack in Tibet.
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At the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao failed to attend an initial meeting with Obama, sending a lower-level official in his place. At one point, Obama was subjected to a finger-wagging lecture by a high-ranking Chinese official, which would have provoked an international incident had an American treated the Chinese leader in such a manner.
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