Economy and Development

Park Hyatt hotel to be built in Lhasa

Survey on Tibetan population to start in November

More investment into the TAR

China to tap rich copper ore resources in eastern Tibet

New airport planned in western Tibet

PRC pledges $12.3 million aid to Nepal

Potala Palace plaza renovation project finished

Construction of Lhasa railway station finished

Scheduled flights to Lhasa

China Development Bank, TAR sign loan agreement

Detentions before 40th anniversary of TAR (TIB) 

Nepal proposes trans-Himalayan railway

Huaneng to develop hydropower in Tibet

Foreign banks encouraged to enter western regions

TAR attracts more tourists

China considers reopening tiger trade

Opening of Natu La postponed

More problems for Kathmandu-Lhasa bus link.

Kathmandu - Lhasa bus faces uncertainty

China gives aid to Nepalese army

Four Tibetans arrested; Nepal stops issuing travel documents

Court enforces shatoosh ban in J&K

Tourism to Tibet increasing

Mining companies in Tibet talk to activists

Golmud-Lhasa railway to open earlier than planned

Maintenance of Ramoche temple completed

Rewards for teaching in Tibet

Iron ore deposits and oil found on Tibetan Plateau

China and India hold border talks in Beijing

Tibet's first train accident kills one, injures eight

Following the tiger's trail

Wildlife trader held

Release of pricing and start of rail cargo service on Beijing-Lhasa railway

Golmud-Lhasa railway to extend to Shigatse

US pledges $1.4m for refugees in Nepal

Entry cards to ease cross border trade

China to use GPS technology to map Nepalese-Tibetan border

China announces vital trade route through Sikkim

PRC’s largest copper mine in TAR to start construction in May

Tiger skin prices fall in Lhasa

Third civil airport in the TAR opens

Timetable set for new railway

Lhasa railway to transport additional 4,000 tourists to Central Tibet each day

Canadian company acquires rights to mine zinc-copper in Tibet

Qinghai Oilfield to be expanded

Pass between Tibet and Sikkim to finally re-open

EU unlikely to lift China arms ban

Mineral water reserves found along Golmud-Lhasarailway route

Goods cleared for Tibet-China border trade announced

China to extend Tibetan railway to Indian border

Potala daily entry quota increased

Golmud-Lhasa railway opens

Increased flights to Lhasa

The Shetongmon copper-gold mine - a preliminary report

Nathu La opens for trade

China calms India over Sutlej hydro plant

First half 06 TAR tourism figures released

Railway already unstable

Railway to extend to Shigatse within three years

China sends more envoys to Nepal

Road to Metog/Pema Koe to be built

China disappointed by Nathu La trade

China faces railway funding gap

Golmud-Lhasa train derails

New airport opens in Nyingchi

Lhasa railway figures

Chinese airlines to slash prices due to Tibet railway

Refurbishment of Potala Palace completed

Beijing pressures Nepal to stop Tibetans from fleeing

Nathu La trade shut till June

Tibet tourism plans announced

First charter flight into Lhasa

Forum convenes to discuss Tibet

Challenges at Shetongmon (TIB)  (CHI) 

Jia Qinglin in London

Minister says Tibet water diversion not feasible

TAR’s foreign trade grows

Tibet railway threatens Qinghai Lake

Indian border state favours China trade

EU to increase investment in PRC’s west

Megoe lake dam project cancelled

India announces road-building plan

Lhasa airport receives millionth passenger in 2006

China puts curbs on Tibet route to Everest

HRW: Compulsory reconstruction of houses increases poverty

Indian Commerce Minister wants Nathu La upgraded

Tourism boosts economic figures in TAR

EU stands by China arms embargo

No progress in India-China border talks

TAR produced 1.5 million megawatt hours of electricity in 2006

Large mineral reserves discovered along Tibetan railway

Geological map of the Tibet Plateau finished

Demchok route to open

Hu Jintao: harmony, stability prerequisite for Tibet’s development

Second line to be built at Golmud

TAR, SGCC sign agreement to form power company

Dharamsala alarmed at number of Chinese going to Tibet

Snow on Nepal border disrupts traffic

NCP: Tibet economy and tourism booming but “problems lurking”

TAR set to receive 100 billion Yuan investment

Chinese statistics say TAR's population exceeds 2.8 million

TAR rules out any price rise for tourists

Minority Right Group: China’s boom 'threatens minorities'

American company to open luxury hotel in Lhasa

Nathu La to be liberalised

Record number of tourists in TAR

TAR expects 6 million tourists by 2010

Authorities stop mining in Garthar after protests

HRW report slams Tibetan resettlements

China to build highway on world's tallest mountain

Wutai Shan threatened by mining

China announces 20-year environmental protection plan for Tibet

UNESCO critical of treatment of Potala Palace World Heritage Site

China announces Tibet tourism plan

Mining companies in Tibet told to pay exploitation deposits

Everest road plan on hold

The commercial legend of goji
Selling a Chinese crop under the Tibetan flag (TIB)  (CHI) 

TAR tourism figures revised

Tibetans detained in Lhasa trader dispute

100,000 Tibetan nomads ordered to settle in towns

Tiger products seized in Chinese port

Seized sandalwood at risk

Lhasa begins major expansion amid tourist, migrant influx

TAR sees increase in tourists in first 10 months of 2007

Nepal-Tibet visitors flow growing

Wildlife to sandalwood (TIB)  (CHI) 

Chinese Authorities to move controversial dam

Lhasa bus leaves without passengers

Funding for environmental protection in Qinghai announced

Tibetan-language office software released

China proposes oil and rail link to Kathmandu

Tibet under strain as visitors surpass locals

China steps up resettlement of Tibetan herders

Work to begin on Shigatse rail link

New records in overseas tourists arrivals

China encouraged to continue ban on tiger trade

12 tons of red sandalwood smuggled to Tibet with 'police protection'

Tibet Railway transports 5.95 million

Chinese Geological Survey announces five major gold mines discovered

Yartsa Gunbou, l’or de la terre du Tibet

Yartsa gunbu, Tibet's underground cash cow (TIB)  (CHI) 

Record tourist figures in Lhasa

Railway extensions necessary – Puncog tells NPC

“Stability and harmony” in TAR stressed by Hu

Accusations against the "masterminds" of China’s ethnic policy

Re-opening of Tibet for tourism postponed

Resttlements in Ngaba

China: rail link to Nepal via Tibet in 5 years

'Free Tibet' flags made in China

Tibet tourism suffers setbacks after Lhasa unrest

Opening of Nathu-la pass

Dalai Lama speaks about possible future developments in Tibet

Beijing restricts supplies in Mustang

Lhasa to re-open to foreign tourists soon

Chinese consul says Sikkim part of India but border lacks demarcation

Lhasa Airport set for night flights

Nepal tourism may suffer serious setback

Gorkha hit by TAR border closure

Border sealing triggers food crisis in northern Nepal

Asia's second largest copper mine to open in Tibet

Visa fees for Chinese nationals in Nepal

TAR loans for damaged businesses in Lhasa

Tourism suffers from Spring 2008 unrest

Nomads to be settled

Six new lines announced for Tibet railway network

New airport in Qinghai

"You must judge things from your own point of view".
Interview with Tibetan singer and social writer Jamyang Kyi (TIB) 

Tibet railway tunnel cave-in kills four, injures seven

"It reaches into every aspect of rural Tibetan life"
Yartsa gunbu: Chances, challenges and prospects - an interview with Daniel Winkler (TIB) 

'Five-star' tourist train service called off indefinitely

China's Chinalco unit to explore, smelt in Tibet

China calls for relaxing restrictions on border trade

Border talks conclude with no agreement

Gas pipeline to Lhasa

Beijing white paper praises rule over Tibet

Managing and servicing the floating population a "key issue for security and development in the TAR" (TIB) 

Tourist numbers down for holiday weekend

China Western Mining to start up Yulong copper plant

China vows to boost incomes in restive Tibet areas

TAR slashes tourism ticket prices

No Indo-Tibet barter trade this season

Tourism infrastructure projects continue

China to launch propaganda drive on Tibet

Cordyceps price fall in Shanghai

Shetongmon copper mine awaiting final go-ahead

China lauds Nepal

Qinghai-Tibet Railway Company announce six more rail lines

China warns France re. Dalai Lama

12,000 pastoralists to be settled in Yunnan

300,000 Tibetan farmers rehoused

TAR cuts fares, hotel rates to lure tourists

China to build dry port at Tatopani

Chinese New Year to attract 835,000 visitors to Tibet

"Sabotage" sets back TAR development: Party chief

Tibetan nomads, farmers may be losers in China's ecology protection plan

Luxury train to Lhasa postponed

China approves "modern redesign" of Lhasa

Chinese bank lends to mines in Tibet

Tibet re-opens to foreign tourists from April

The Wuhou District (武侯区), a Tibetan enclave in Chengdu

Tibet to provide annual aid to Nepal

20,000 households destined for 'socialist villages'

Dam protest in Tawu County

Mine standoff said to be resolved

Nathu-la border trade grinds to a halt

Nepali team visits border

Mine standoff resolved

Protests over mining project, three Tibetans seriously injured

New airport to open in Qinghai

Price of caterpillar fungus rises sharply

China launches first direct flight linking Beijing and Lhasa

Restrictions on the import of religious items from Nepal

Seven killed over cordyceps in Nepal

Tibetans oppose forced housing policy in Sershul county

US to fund programmes to help Tibetans inside Tibet and in exile

County-level Party chiefs urged to be role models for unity

Preparation for Lhasa-Xigaze railway ready

Chinese government forcibly relocates Tibetan nomads

Tibet and Nepal trade fair concludes

Tibet's mineral deposits estimated at 600bn yuan

Jinshan to acquire Gyama mineral property

China reports major gold discovery in Qinghai

Nepali PM calls for railway extension to Kathmandu

China ignoring tiger trade

Border games. Rectifying an inconvenient history.

Kathmandu-Lhasa bus service to restart

16,000 nomadic households in Qinghai 'settled'

Dalai Lama appeals to China on drying Tibet rivers

Chinese aid to Nepal

Border road project deferred

Major blow against trans-Himalayan wildlife traffic

306,000 Tibetans in 46 counties lose land to China's reforestation projects

Second line of Xining-Golmud section of Golmud-Lhasa railway to open

China reports record 2009 tourism in TAR

New mining corporation to expedite key projects in Tibet

China's Nepal policies

Tibetan nomads from Qinghai "ecological migrants"

Airlines urged to open flights to Tibet region

Tibet-Nepal bus line to restart

China's Tibet's backyard

Beijing to step up exploitation of Tibet's mineral resources

Lhasa defies orders for business as usual

Tibet's TB patients rising 5,000 per year

Official on possible rail link to Nepal

Four expressways to cut through Karze and Ngaba

More airports to open in Tibet

Nepal - Tibet trade talks begin

China to share Tsangpo/Brahmaputra data with India

Quake homeless to wait three years for new homes  

Tibetans say mining at a sacred site prompted earthquake

Villagers renew mine protests

TAR publishes ten-year tourism plan

46kg of pangolin scales seized at Tibet-Nepal border

Surveillance stepped up in Lhasa hotels

Oil terminal in Lhasa

China to boost oil production in Qinghai

Ngari airport opens

Investment package for the western regions

Kyirong land port moving forward

Kyirong/Rasuwa custom point to open for tourists

Production begins at Gyama

China to expand lithium production in Qinghai

Opening the gate to Kailash

Tibet Airlines plans to operate flights to Europe

Beijing approves Lhasa-Shigatse railway extension

ITBP suspends two officers held in smuggling case

Widespread flood damages in Lhokha prefecture

4th Nepal-Tibet tourism meeting

China begins Tibet railway extension

Shetongmon and beyond. Jinchuan acquires Continental.

Villagers Block Work on Dam

Sichuan Airlines launches Lhasa-Xining-Xi'an route

Nepali cows being smuggled into Tibet

Dalai Lama's village rebuilt

TAR opens new airport

China to spend $4.5bn on minerals exploration

TAR to build low-rent apartments

Brahmaputra dam project begun

Villagers to be resettled for dam

Kailash conservation framework drafted

UN expert Beijing not to pressurise herders to sell their herds to settle

2.46 million tons of lithium discovered in Tibet

300,000 Tibetan families resettled

Major hydropower stations in Chamdo to transmit power to China

China focusing on Tibet as major trade frontier

Tourism booming in the TAR

Permission for 21.3GW dam in Sichuan world heritage site

China to develop three major mineral centres in Tibet

Agreement signed to exploit rare mineral near Lhasa

Tibetan rail extension plans

Tibet Airline to begin offering flights in July

Maintaining stability utmost important to Tibet: Party chief

Tibet closed to foreign tourists in March

Solar power array in Lhoka

India plans 558 roads along China, Pakistan border

Tibet to double annual investments in water infrastructure

China Gold International announces 2011 exploration plan for its Gyama mine

Tibetans boycott Chinese businessmen

Regulating the yartsa gunbu business

Customs infrastructure feature in Nepal - China talks

Fruitless trade talks

Tibet project to maintain Guge kingdom ruins

Tibetan officials to promote Nepal tourism

Tibetan truckers' protests

New hydropower station begins operation

Red sandalwood smuggling on the rise

TAR's largest solar power plant starts operation

China launches new airline for Tibet

Regional bank established in TAR

TAR hosts 2.25m tourists in first half of 2011

Petition against pollution in Kumbum

Nepal to look for uranium near Tibet border

India plans three strategic rail links on northern border

Tibetan Mine Protesters Detained

Tibet's mineral resources to be 'extracted ecologically'

Dams threaten Gansu county

Smuggling pangolin organs to China from Nepal rampant

Chinese migrants seize land in Jyekundo

China says Tibetan gold mine amongst largest in Asia

Chinese officials in Tibet clearing forests in Nepal

70 ton Sandalwood awaiting transport to Tibet

Direct air link Delhi-Kailash

TAR draws over 6 million tourists in 2011

China to spend $47bn into TAR to 2015

First liquefied natural gas station opens in Tibet

Tibet's first private banking service opens in Lhasa

China to launch 'Third Battle Campaign' in Tibet

Construction of Tatopani dry port to begin

US dollars seized on Nepal-China border

Main road to TAR collapses, many vehicles trapped

China to nominate law-abiding "model monastery" in TAR

Lhasa customs seize drugs and animal products

Tibet trade fair concludes I Kathmandu

China "to give Tibetan monks welfare benefits"

Tibet's news media to be bilingual in five years

Nepal, China to construct bridge across the border

TAR opens training for intangible heritage

Pretoria admits China pressure

Nepal-China to sign pact on construction of four dry ports

Direct non-stop Beijing-Lhasa flights

Tibet railway carries 6.5m travellers in 2011

3.2 billion yuan for "ecological security barrier"

600kg of China-bound orchids seized

China extends railway line to increase fertilizer supply

Railway brings more visitors to Golmud

Snow kills Tibetan herds

Tibet tourism damaging heritage sites

Tibet Mineral To Invest 12M Yuan In Exploration, Earnings Drop

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