Upstart Tibet Monk More Placid After Chinese Re-education

The young monk once again found himself in front of microphones and television cameras. It was much the same as on March 28, 2008, when the monk, Norgye, and dozens of fellow monks barged into a temple chamber where foreign journalists were being escorted around by Chinese government officials

China opens fourth civilian aiport in ‘TAR ‘

China on Thursday opened its fourth civilian airport in the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). The new airport named Gunsa Airport, in Ngari Prefecture, became operational with the landing of a passenger plane of

$6 Billion in Sichuan Quake Restoration Funds Misused

About US$6 billion (40.8 billion Chinese yuan) of funding intended for relief operations following the devastating Wenchuan earthquake of 2008 in southwest China’s Sichuan Province was held up or misused through