Lhasa is not a luxury tourist destination, activists tell InterContinental
Tibet campaigners carried out a demonstration outside the InterContinental Hotels Group’s “Future of Local” event in their Times Square hotel in New York on Thursday, demanding the company to ditch its plans of opening a luxury hotel in Lhasa, Tibet’s ancient capital. Calling Tibet “one of the most repressed regions of the world,” demonstrators contended
China again puts Tibetan writer Woeser under house arrest
Award winning Tibetan writer and poet Tsering Woeser has once again been placed under house arrest in Beijing by Chinese authorities ahead of a rare state-sponsored trip to Tibet by foreign journalists. Writing on her blog, Woeser said the latest move is intended to prevent her from speaking the truth about Tibet