(TibetanReview.net, May22’19) – Work on the Tibet section of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway, China’s second railway link to the region, is proceeding at a fast pace with work on the Chamdo section expected to begin next month, reported China’s official chinadaily.com.cn May 22. Described as the world’s most geographically challenging railway […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jan25’19) – China has not only forced nomads and farmers in five counties of Chamdo prefecture-level City of Tibet Autonomous Region to relocate in newly built urban towns but also made them pay for their new homes while saying it was meant to alleviate their poverty. The relocated Tibetans […]

(TibetanReview.net, Nov13, 2018) – A second barrier lake formed by a landslide in Chamdo city of Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) on Nov 3 on the Jinsha (Tibetan: Drichu) River had begun overflowing at 10:50 am on Nov 12 through a man-made floodway, reported China’s official chinadaily.com.cn Nov 12. It cited […]

(TibetanReview.net, Nov05, 2018) – A new barrier lake has formed after another large landslide hit Bolo Township in Chamdo (Qamdo) City of Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) on Nov 3 evening, blocking a section of Jinsha River, part of the headwaters system of Yangze River known in Tibetan as the Drichu. […]

(TibetanReview.net, Oct16, 2018) – Even as dangers from a barrier lake formed by a landslide which blocked the Drichu (Chinese: Yangtze River) tributary of Jinsha River at Bolo Township of Jomda County in Tibet’s Chamdo (Qamdo) City receded following a burst through the blockade, another danger keeps growing, reported China’s […]

(TibetanReview.net, Oct03, 2018) – China is moving residents of nine villages in eastern Tibet’s Chamdo City to two rural counties in the outskirts of Lhasa City as their land is taken over to build mining infrastructures, reported the Tibetan Service of rfa.org Oct 1. It is not clear how many […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jan18, 2018) – Chinese authorities in Jomda (Chinese: Jiangda) County of Chamdo Prefecture, Tibet Auto Chinese authorities in Jomda (Chinese: Jiangda) County of Chamdo Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, have removed more than 10,000 Tibetan nomads from their ancestral land to widen a mining work that had been going on […]