China defends damming Brahmaputra river in Tibet Economic Times BEIJING: Defending its plans to build a series of hydropower projects over Brahmaputra river in Tibet, China today said it has taken "full account" of concerns of downstream countries as well as the "bigger picture" of good relationship with India ... |
Voice of America | Struggle of the Tibetan People is Very Meaningful and Important to Me: Ashoka ... Voice of America Still regaining his strength from his recent Ebola treatment, Ashoka Mukpo spoke to VOA Tibetan Service from his home in Rhode Island. He recalls the images of Ebola patients dying or lying outside clinics in Liberia. “The images and suffering that I ... |
China Focus : Major hydroplant begins operation in power-thirsty Tibet People's Daily Online LHASA , Nov . 23 -- Tibet ' s largest hydropower station became partly operational on Sunday , harnessing the rich water resources of the Yarlung Zangbo River to develop the electricity-strapped region . The first generating unit of the 9.6 billion ... |
A new book documents China's exploitation of Tibet's natural resources PRI Only the Arctic and the Antarctic have more ice than the glacial highlands of the Tibetan Plateau, earning it the nickname "the third pole." These glaciers feed into rivers that provide water for more than a billion people in Asia. But to generate ... |
indiatvnews.com (press release) (blog) | China builds first hydropower dam on Brahmaputra in Tibet indiatvnews.com (press release) (blog) New Delhi: China has announced that its 510 MW hydropower dam project at Yarlung Zangbo, the source of River Brahmaputra in Tibet, has started functioning. . The construction, which began in 2010, had, in the past, raised concern in India. It is ... |
Use "Technology" constructively: Spiritual leader of Tibet Tibet Post International Hindu-Tibet-India-2014 New Delhi: - The spiritual leader of Tibet His Holiness the Dalai Lama said 'Technology makes our life easier and brings people closer together, but we must use it constructively.' His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Friday 21 ... |
Hydroplant in Tibet Global Times Tibet's largest hydropower station became partly operational on Sunday, harnessing the rich water resources of the Yarlung Zangbo River to boost development in the electricity-strapped region. The first section of the 9.6 billion yuan ($1.5 billion ... |
Activists call on China to free Tibet Fiji Times CHINA's President Xi Jinping may not reach Suva during his three-day State visit to Fiji, but that did not deter the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre from posting up a Free Tibet poster on their gates in support of Tibet's independence from China. FWCC co ... |
PA home page | Sacred Art of Tibet Tour to Visit NEPA PA home page The Sacred Art of Tibet Tour will visit Northeastern Pennsylvania December 8 – 14, 2014, coordinated by local educational non-profit organization, Yoga Journeys. Six Tibetan Buddhist Monks will be sharing the art and culture of Tibet, as well as the ... |
UNPO | Tibet: China Plans to Force Nomads from Their Land by the End of the Year UNPO China plans to forcibly move Tibetan nomads into urban areas and off their own land as part of its 'tuimy huancao' policy. This policy, which started in the early 1990s, has already resulted in the compulsory resettlement of over one million Tibetans. |
CRIENGLISH.com | Tibet Sees More Than 1000 Foreign Climber Teams in the Past 3 Decades CRIENGLISH.com According to the Sports Bureau of Tibet Autonomous Region, with the economic income created by receiving foreign mountaineering teams, Tibet has invested over 40 million yuan in constructing sports facilities and helping expedition teams finish ... |
Photo Friday: A Visit To Amdo, Tibet GlacierHub Khashem Gyal is a photographer who recently documented residents of Amdo, Tibet, located in the northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau in the series included here. Amdo's glaciers are the source of Asia's major rivers including the Yangtze, Yellow ... |
Renovation work at temple in Tibet near complete CCTV The Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa, capital city of China's Tibet Autonomous Region, is arguably the most important temple for Tibetan Buddhists. The temple is notably famous for its long, intricate murals. Over the past couple of years, painstaking ... |
The Economist | How Tibet was won The Economist A new crop not only allowed people to colonise the highest reaches of Tibet, but let them do so at a time when the weather was actually getting colder. Archaeology suggests that humans have been visiting the Tibetan plateau for at least 20,000 years. |
China opens new grid to ease power woes in Tibet Economic Times The project aims to put an end to electricity shortages of the over 500,000 residents of the Qamdo region and ease power strain in Tibet as a whole, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. The complex interconnection circuits stretch 1,521 kilometers ... |
Tibet Post International | My mpressions from visiting of Tibet, a place with surprises Tibet Post International kathleen-ford-tibet-visit-november-2014 Dharamshala:- Our decision to take the controversial new train from Xining to Lhasa in 2012 tugged at my conscience, but it was the one way that we could logistically manage our trip to Tibet. And I will admit ... |
Tibet Post International | A Visitor's Impressions of Tibet: The beauty and the arts Tibet Post International kathleen-ford-tibet-visit-november-2014 Dharamshala:- Our decision to take the controversial new train from Xining to Lhasa in 2012 tugged at my conscience, but it was the one way that we could logistically manage our trip to Tibet. And I will admit ... |
Yibada (English Edition) | Tibet Adds 23 Percent Green Area This Year Yibada (English Edition) According to Dong Yijun, an official with Tibet's forestry department, the region now has completed planting 32,140 hectares of trees and has closed off 50,526 hectares of hills and mountains to allow the newly planted trees and grass in the area to grow. |
The News Hub | Taking Tibet to the world stage The News Hub G20 Brisbane. As Brisbanites fled their locked down, barricaded and fortified city, exiled Tibetans from around the country - and from as far way as NYC and India - converged on Queensland's capital city to join forces with the Australia Tibet Council ... |
Tibet Post International | At-least 26 Buddhist nuns expelled from their nunnery in Tibet Tibet Post International Kharkyodling-Nunnery-Tibet Dharamshala: - At-least 26 Buddhist nuns have been expelled from a Tibetan nunnery in eastern Tibet for their refusal to comply with new crackdons, after the Chinese government increased restrictions on religious practice. |
High-speed rail to operate on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau CCTV XINING, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- China's vast and fast-growing high-speed rail network will extend into the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as a route linking Xinjiang with inland is scheduled to start running through Qinghai Province next month, the railway ... |
Tibet grows stronger capital market Global Times The total market value of Tibetan listed companies exceeded 80 billion yuan (13 billion US dollars), surpassing the region's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2013, the regional securities regulator said Friday. Tibet Autonomous Region now has 10 ... |
Postcard from: Lhasa, Tibet Houston Chronicle Where we went: A 25-hour, overnight train ride climbing to over 17,000 feet brought us to the beautiful city of Lhasa, Tibet. My husband, myself and three people from Germany were the only non-Asian passengers on board a slow, old train out of Xining ... |
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Norah Shapiro - 'Miss Tibet: Beauty in Exile' Indie Wire (blog) For her current project, Miss Tibet: Beauty in Exile, Shapiro traveled several times to Dharamsala, India, home of the exiled Tibetan government, to explore the role of a Western-style beauty pageant in a culture that has traditionally prized inner ... |
Scientific American | Raft Ride on Tibet's Powerful Rivers Reveals Regional Meltdown Scientific American AUGUST 2005: My introduction to the tremendous power of the rivers of Tibet comes via a rafting ride on the Drigung River, a few hours' drive from Lhasa. This is a baptism fueled by pure adrenaline, a baptism that raises lots of questions—and gets me ... |
Echonetdaily | G20 draws activists for a free Tibet Echonetdaily Grace Jeffery-Kingston from Lismore helped raise the sign to call to attention the human rights violations China is committing in Tibet just one day before Chinese President Xi Jinping attends his second G20 Summit. The four Tibet activists deployed a ... |
Columbia Daily Tribune | Tibetan monk explains Buddhism to students Columbia Daily Tribune Lhunpo escaped Tibet in 1959 after the Chinese takeover, initially settling in Dharamsala, India, home of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government in exile. Now in the United States, he teaches Tibetan language courses at the University of Kansas ... |
GoKunming (blog) | Shangri-la to nowhere: A week on the edge of Tibet, part 2 GoKunming (blog) Editor's note: GoKunming contributor Sander Van de Moortel first landed in Yunnan in 2011 after taking a wrong turn on a bike trip through Vietnam. Comfortably trapped in Kunming by his linguistic ambitions and his somewhat complicated relationship ... |
'Rally for Tibet' for 2015 Tibetan Uprising Day Phayul DHARAMSHALA, November 12: Tibetans in Europe will hold a rally for Tibet in Paris, France, to commemorate the 56th year of Tibetan Uprising against Communist forces on March 14. The first preparatory meeting for the rally was held in Paris on Saturday. |
Index On Censorship | Under cyber attack: an interview with Lobsang Sangay, Tibet's exiled political ... Index On Censorship Just a few weeks earlier, Sangay had become Tibet's new political leader, taking over all political authority from the Dalai Lama after winning an election held among exiled Tibetans all across the world. It had been his first day in parliament in ... |
Under persistent cyberattack, Tibetan monks taught to 'detach from attachments' Minneapolis Star Tribune There's little doubt that groups like Tibet Action need protection. A major study published Tuesday by Internet watchdog Citizen Lab shows that it and other civil society organizations have been penetrated by cyberspies, many of them linked to China ... |
India has ignored Tibet for too long Livemint Beijing says Tibet is a core issue for China. In truth, Tibet is the core issue in Beijing's relations with countries such as India, Nepal and Bhutan that traditionally did not have a common border with China. These countries became China's neighbours ... |
Year 2020 Crucial for Tibet, says Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay Tibet Post International Tibet-Sikyong-Sikkim-2014 Dharamshala: - Speaking to Tibetans in Gangtok – the Indian state Sikkim's capital – Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay argued the year 2020 is crucial for the Tibetan movement. Specifically, the Tibetan political leader stated ... |
Detained Solo Tibetan Protester is Freed After Interrogation Radio Free Asia A Tibetan businessman detained in China's Sichuan province last month for launching a solitary protest challenging Beijing's rule in Tibetan areas has been freed after being interrogated over slogans he wrote on his protest banner, Tibetan sources said. |
