Story Archive
2018-07-13
They help move families to higher ground and rescue what they can of their household goods and belongings.
2018-07-11
Meanwhile, a delegation sent afterward to appeal to provincial authorities for help has not returned, a local source says.
2018-07-10
Novices aged 15 and younger must be enrolled instead in government-run schools, authorities say.
2018-07-10
Many observe the day in private, or hold picnics in the countryside away from public view, sources say.
2018-07-05
The Tibetan spiritual leader, who fled into exile in India in 1959 to escape Chinese rule, turns 83 on Friday.
2018-06-27
They are taken into custody amid a province-wide crackdown on 'separatist influence,' a local source says.
2018-06-21
Activists warn that the move will leave a power vacuum in international human rights issues that China will fill on its own terms.
2018-06-18
Heavy fines are threatened for those refusing to take part, local sources say.
2018-06-15
Dorjee Gyantsan had gathered information on refugees' names and political views and will now serve 22 months in jail.
2018-06-06
No explanation is given for Lobsang Tenzin's early release from a 10-year prison term for 'aiding and abetting' a self-immolation protest.
2018-06-05
Pema Gyatso, a student at Lanzhou's Northwest University for Nationalities, had previously been warned that his writings were politically sensitive.
2018-06-01
Government employees, schoolchildren, and retirees are ordered not to take part, a local source says.
2018-06-01
Fewer teachers able to teach in both Mandarin and Tibetan are being hired, disadvantaging Tibetans, they say.
2018-05-22
Observers call for his release, saying he followed Chinese law in promoting his mother tongue.
2018-05-17
Dashar, a resident of Sershul county in Sichuan's Kardze prefecture, had been jailed for 10 years for his role in protests in Lhasa in 2008.
2018-05-16
They are told not to visit monasteries or attend religious gatherings during the Buddhist holy month of Saga Dawa.
2018-05-16
Chinese authorities fear the spread of 'separatist' sentiment inspired by exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
2018-05-14
Already partially fenced for farming, the grazing land is now being taken for development, a local source says.
2018-05-04
The representative of the Trump administration to India calls the spiritual leader 'inspirational,' voices hope he may soon visit the US.
2018-04-27
Police have now blocked communications in the area to keep more news from getting out.
2018-04-24
Woechung Gyatso was taken into custody after participating in a Chinese-led workshop on laws regulating internet use.
2018-04-18
Meetings with a Chinese embassy official in Poland and a journalist in Sweden were unconnected with intelligence work, he says.
2018-04-17
Local Tibetans lose land they have farmed for generations, with compensation paid at below-market rates.
2018-04-13
Lhamo Dolkar, 60, came under suspicion after she visited a political prisoner in jail some six years before her detention.
2018-04-12
The suspect is believed to have been paid by Chinese agents for information about the diaspora.
2018-04-05
It was Labrang monk Jinpa Gyatso's second period of incommunicado detention in less than a month.
2018-04-04
Listed offenses include environmental activism and the promotion of Tibet's national culture and language.
2018-03-30
Lobsang Sangye was sentenced in a closed trial after seven months of incommunicado detention.
2018-03-20
Police take a village leader into custody after he refuses to sign his approval for the project, a local source says.
2018-03-19
A former leader of Tibetan student protests, he was sentenced for his writings criticizing Chinese policies in Tibetan areas.
