11 May, 2008
Tibet/XiZang educational development in Exhibition
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A series of numbers given in the exhibition themed on Tibetan Past and Present show the consistent progress in Tibetan education field: Tibet Autonomous Region is the first one to accomplish compulsory education with free-accommodation and free-tuition in urban and rural areas; 1,200-yuan assistance is provided for every pupil in per academic year, while every [...]
9 May, 2008
Olympic Torch Reaches Everest Peak - Tibet/XiZang Qomolangma
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A team of climbers trudged through snow and ice to carry the Olympic torch to the summit of Mount Everest on Thursday, fulfilling a long-held goal of the Chinese government to have the Olympic flame lit on top of the world's highest mountain - Tibet/XiZang Qomolangma.
Overseas groups opposed to Chinese rule in Tibet quickly denounced [...]
5 May, 2008
US journalist commends China's efforts to develop Tibet/XiZang, preserve its culture
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The Chinese government has made impressive efforts to bring Tibet to the modern world of the 21st century and preserve its traditional culture, a U.S. journalist said on Sunday.
David Jones, the interim managing editor of the Washington Times, said in an email interview with Xinhua that he saw during his trip to Tibet last September [...]
3 May, 2008
Exhibition testimony to progress in Tibet/XiZang
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Huang Guangxue, vice-director of the National State Nationalities Affairs Commission in the 1980s, still remembers his first visit to Tibet in 1954. Huang and his colleagues were on a State Council mission to assess the situation in the region.
The young man, who grew up in the countryside, was struck by the poverty of the Tibetans.
In [...]
2 May, 2008
Listen to the other side of Tibet issue
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[Dori Jones Yang of Seattle is a writer who specializes in China; dorijonesyang.com]
When I happily announced to my Chinese husband that I obtained a coveted ticket to hear the Dalai Lama, he frowned. To him, the Dalai Lama is a divisive political leader, not a compassionate holy man.
These days, I feel caught between widespread U.S. [...]
29 Apr, 2008
Policeman killed in pursuit of riot leader in NW China
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A policeman was shot dead during the pursuit of an alleged riot leader in northwest China's Qinghai Province, local authorities said on Tuesday.
Lama Cedain, a Tibetan officer in charge of criminal investigations in the Public Security Bureau of Dari County, Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Golog, was wounded six times and died at about 6:30 a.m. [...]
28 Apr, 2008
Tibetan "government-in-exile" still a theocratic power
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The Tibetan "government-in-exile" in fact is still a theocratic power, an integration of church and "state" with the Dalai Lama at the top, according to a senior Tibetologist.
Under its claim of power division, the Tibetan "government-in-exile" sets up its legislative framework (the Assembly of Tibetan People's Deputies), executive body (the Kashag), and judiciary (the Tibetan [...]
27 Apr, 2008
Tibet/XiZang will receive foreign tourists soon
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Tibet will receive foreign tourists as soon as possible as all the conditions become mature, the Tourism Bureau of the Tibet Autonomous Region informed on April 27.
According to the Deputy Director of the Tourism Bureau of the Tibet Autonomous Region, the normal reception work of the tourism industry in Tibet was greatly disturbed by the [...]
25 Apr, 2008
China's central gov't department to meet with Dalai's private representative
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BEIJING, April 25 (Xinhua) -- China's central government department will meet with Dalai's private representative in the coming days, Xinhua learned from official sources on Friday.
"In view of the requests repeatedly made by the Dalai side for resuming talks, the relevant department of the central government will have contact and consultation with Dalai's private representative [...]
10 Jan, 2008
The Real Tibet
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The purest air and the bluest sky in the world. This is what I first saw in Tibet when I went there some 20 years ago.
Under the blinding sunshine were men wrapped up in sheep hides. With chest and arms exposed to the air, they chatted merrily with girls with deeply sun-tanned cheeks.
Out of my [...]
