Tibet News

China said Jul 29 that it will "fundamentally solve the power shortage problem in Tibet (Autonomous Region, TAR)" under a project to link its electricity network with that of the rest of the People’s Republic of China by 2012.

The average salary of non-private, which means state, sector employees in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) is the third highest in the People’s Republic of China, next only to Shanghai and Beijing, reported China’s online Tibet news service eng.tibet.cn Jul 28.

All trains from and to Lhasa passing through China’s Shaanxi Province had been cancelled due to floods and other rain-triggered disasters, reported China’s official Xinhua news agency Jul 26.

(Jul26, 2010)  More than two years after protests rocked the Tibetan Plateau, forcing China to cut off the entire occupied region from the outside world, families have still no clues on the whereabouts of their loved ones after they were taken away by the security forces, said the exile Tibetan government on its Tibet.net website Jul 22. Meanwhile, more reports about killings and torture have been coming to light from the information-blockaded region.

Qinghai Province plans to nearly quintuple the amount of its lithium output over the next five years to meet surge in demands especially from manufacturers of electric vehicles powered by lithium cells, reported China’s official China Daily newspaper Jul 23.

China said Jul 22 it will build an eight-hour traffic and economic circle connecting Chamdo Prefecture of Tibet Autonomous Region to adjacent areas such as Yunnan, Sichuan, Qinghai, and Lhasa over the next five to 10 years.

For allegedly consulting the Dalai Lama over the discovery of the reincarnation of a lama, the authorities in Nagchu County of Tibet Autonomous Region have, in May 2010, removed the head of the local Shag Rongpo monastery, forced monks to undergo a “patriotic education”, jailed one monk for two years, and forced 17 other monks to leave the monastery.

The government of China invested $3 billion in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) last year, a 31 percent increase over 2008, but the main and ultimate beneficiaries are Chinese immigrants and businesses, said a New York Times report Jul 24.

The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) government plans to spend more than 23 million yuan to protect sites associated with the Chinese invasion of Tibet as part of the region’s cultural heritage, according to China’s official China Daily online Jul 21.

China said Jul 19 that it had begun production at its Gyama polymetallic mine in Tibet’s capital Lhasa on Jul 19 with a daily output of 6,000 tonnes.

Twenty-seven people were reported missing, and probably dead, and 11 others injured after a bus they were travelling in fell into a river in a traditional Tibetan area in Sichuan Province on Jul 18 morning, reported China’s official Xinhua news agency Jul 18.

Tibetan is the official language in Tibet and China claims to promote the education of Tibetans in their own mother tongue.

China is to double the size of the urban area of Lhasa under its "General Urban Planning of Lhasa (2009-2020)", reported China’s online Tibet news service eng.tibet.cn Jul 15.

China said Jul 13 it will reopen the Gyirong (Tibetan: Kyirong) land port in Xigaze (Tibetan: Shigatse) Prefecture of Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) near Nepal’s border in 2011 while continuing work on it over the next three to five years.

The Dalai Lama is to visit Toronto, Canada, from Oct 22 to 25 to give religious teachings and deliver a public talk on invitation from the Tibetan Canadian Cultural Centre and Canadian Tibetan Association of Ontario.