A young Tibetan stabbed himself and jumped to his death from the roof of a building in Tibet’s Chamdo prefecture on Wednesday after authorities tried to halt his protest against a Chinese mine being built in…
2014-04-24: Authorities in a Tibetan-populated county in southwestern China’s Sichuan province have detained four village leaders following protests against a Chinese mining company’s attempt to seize land for operations in the area, according to sources…
(Reuters) – Managers mishandled a radiation leak at a New Mexico nuclear waste dump in which 21 workers were exposed to airborne radioactive particles due in part to substandard equipment and safety systems, a U.S. investigator…
Hundreds of Tibetans in a county in China’s Gansu province staged protests this week over the seizure of farm land for the construction of highways catering to state-linked gold mining and industrial activities that are…
Researchers looked at 3,500-year-long tree ring records from North East Tibet to estimate annual precipitation. They found that recent decades have likely been the wettest on record in this semi-arid region.
Twenty Tibetans have been taken into custody by the Chinese authorities as a result of their alleged participation in recent protests against the construction of a local tunnel in Derge county, or Kardze in Chinese,…
Tibetan leaders and researchers claim that this displacement has been going on over the last few years under China’s nature conservation policy. The allegation comes at a time when the figure for Tibetans reaching other countries…