The Uneasy Future of the Nepal-China Railway
June 21, 2019Tashi Sherpa runs the only teashop in Rasuwa Gadhi on the Nepal-China border, 170 km north of the capital Kathmandu. About 50 meters away, a group of Chinese workers is busy building a bridge that will link the two countries, … Continued The post The Uneasy Future of the Nepal-China read more →
Tibet: Successful Campaign Against Google Search Engine in China
June 21, 2019After growing pressure from Tibetan, Chinese and Uyghur rights activists, Google has announced that it will refrain from offering a search engine in the People’s Republic of China. Over the last 10 months, this broad coalition of activists raised its … Continued The post Tibet: Successful Campaign Against Google Search read more →
To restore calm in Hong Kong, try democracy
June 20, 2019IT WAS PROBABLY the largest political protest ever staged in Hong Kong. It may have been the biggest in China’s history. Organisers reckon that about 1.9m people joined the demonstration on June 16th. Even during the unrest in Tiananmen Square … Continued The post To restore calm in Hong Kong, read more →
Laws higher than sutras
June 20, 2019While Hong Kongers may escape China’s educational scheme to test the monks’ and nuns’ legal knowledge, it will be difficult for Tibetans, Uyghurs or mainlanders to avoid them Chinese President Xi Jinping is travelling a lot these days; he went to Bishkek … Continued The post Laws higher than sutras appeared first read more →
Spy satellites reveal extent of Himalayan glacier loss
June 20, 2019By Rebecca Morelle Science Correspondent, BBC News Images from Cold War spy satellites have revealed the dramatic extent of ice loss in the Himalayan glaciers. Scientists compared photographs taken by a US reconnaissance programme with recent spacecraft observations and found that melting in the region has doubled over the last read more →
Event Series Highlights Threats to Tibet’s Glaciers
June 20, 2019Tibet accounts for an estimated 14.5 percent of the world’s total glacier mass, but climate change and air pollution are an increasing threat to the nation’s glaciers. The retreat of these glaciers causes grasslands to shrink and permafrost to thaw. It also … Continued The post Event Series Highlights Threats to Tibet’s read more →
What Chinese Citizens Have (and Haven’t) Learned About Hong Kong’s Protests
June 19, 2019While the world has focused on Hong Kong over the past week, most of the 1.4 billion people right across the border in China have not. As hundreds of thousands of protesters march in Hong Kong’s streets against unpopular China-backed extradition legislation, … Continued The post What Chinese Citizens Have (and Haven’t) read more →
Inside China’s ‘thought transformation’ camps
June 19, 2019The BBC has been given rare access to the vast system of highly secure facilities thought to be holding more than a million Muslims in China’s western region of Xinjiang. Authorities there insist they are just training schools. But the BBC’s visit uncovers important evidence about the nature of the read more →
Sound of Hong Kong’s defiance reverberates in Beijing
June 19, 2019Beijing’s public support for Hong Kong leader likely hides private fury, but letting her go would be another humiliation The most obvious casualty of Hong Kong’s extraordinary uprising against chief executive, Carrie Lam, and her campaign to tie the city … Continued The post Sound of Hong Kong’s defiance reverberates read more →
Tibetan human rights group plan Auckland protest against Google’s China expansion plans
June 18, 2019A Tibetan human rights group will be protesting outside Google’s Auckland office demanding that the technology giant scrap its plans to launch a censored search engine in China called Project Dragonfly. Friends of Tibet leader Thuten Kesang said it will … Continued The post Tibetan human rights group plan Auckland read more →