An array of forces, including political suppression and the ubiquity of the internet, have made elements of traditional Tibetan lifestyles increasingly challenging.
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China Frees Tashi Wangchuk, Tibetan Who Fought for Language Rights
Tashi Wangchuk was sentenced to five years in prison after telling The New York Times that Tibetan language education was being repressed.
Beijing Takes Its South China Sea Strategy to the Himalayas
China built a village in territory also claimed by the kingdom of Bhutan, echoing its aggressive tactics at the border with India and in places much farther away.
How the Cold War Between China and U.S. Is Intensifying
In defense, trade, technology, media and diplomacy, among other areas, the rancor between the Trump administration and China’s ruling Communist Party is worsening.
State Department Bars Chinese Officials Who Restrict Access to Tibet
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said international access to Tibet was a matter of regional and environmental security. He did not say how many Chinese officials were being blocked from the U.S.
Still the Undisputed Champs of Mammalian Migrations
Scientists measured distances covered to compile a Top 5 list of ultramarathon runners of land mammals.
China Sharpens Hacking to Hound Its Minorities, Far and Wide
New, more sophisticated attacks are targeting Uighurs’ phones — even iPhones and even abroad, security researchers say. They warn that foreigners could be next.
Sogyal Rinpoche Dies; Tibetan Buddhist Lama Felled by Abuse Accusations
A friend of the Dalai Lama’s, he wrote a popular book about life, death and the afterlife that updated “The Tibetan Book of the Dead.”
In the Ethiopian Mountains, Ancient Humans Were Living the High Life
Humans may have inhabited sites at high elevations far earlier than once believed, a new study suggests.
From a Tibetan Filmmaker, an Unvarnished View of His Land
Pema Tseden’s portraits of Tibet are not the heavenly, mist-shrouded Himalayan paradise of popular Western imagination, but an unsentimental view of a windswept plateau on the fringes of modernity.