Lhasa Politics News

Court documents relating to one of three Tibetans believed to have been executed by Chinese authorities for their part in the Lhasa unrest of March 2008 have confirmed the identity of one of the men. According to the documents, judicial...

China's Tibet Autonomous Region received a record number of 5.27 million tourists in the first 10 months of this year, according to a tourist official.     Wang Songping, deputy head of the Tourism Bureau of Tibet, said the total included 152,077...

China plans to operationalise its fourth civilian airport in Tibet in Ngari Prefecture, close to India, next year as part of the efforts to boost infrastructure facilities in the strategic Himalayan region. The Gunsa Airport in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous...

A local barley beer brewer here expects to supply 2.78 million bottles to the US in the second half of next year, a company official said. According to orders from its American dealer Dzambuling, Lhasa Beer Co.

Fifty years ago, the parents of Tendol Gyalzur were two of about 85,000 Tibetans killed during the suppression of the uprising against Chinese rule in Tibet that pushed the Dalai Lama into exile. Only 7 years old at the time,...