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Across China: Changing role of Tibetan horses reflects region's modernization

In ancient times on the Tibetan plateau, as one folk epic describes it, any tribe member who won a horse race would be perceived worthy of being named chief. That is not the case in modern times. However, Urgyen, in his auspicious hat, gre...

2019-02-11

Winter Olympics dream of a Tibetan shepherd

If it wasn’t for a school selection five years ago, the Tibetan girl named Nyima Yangchen currently skiing around on the snowfield might still be “in charge” of more than 80 yaks. In 2013, the Chamdo Sports School recruited students in ...

2019-01-28

Feature: From mud hut to modern home: four houses of a Tibetan herdsman

To understand the effects of China's ambitious poverty alleviation efforts, you might want to talk to Tibetan herdsman Ngoizhub Gyaco and visit his family's four generations of houses in one of the most inaccessible places on the Qi...

2019-01-18

Living Buddha Khyungpo's job as a CPPCC member

Dressed in burgundy robes and carrying a dark blue briefcase, 28-year-old Living Buddha Khyungpo, a member of the Tibet Autonomous Region Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, arrived to participate in the...

2019-01-17

More Tibetan women find increasing sense of self-worth

Tashi Tseji is a successful Tibetan businesswoman in northwest China's Qinghai Province. Hiring more than 500 female employees in her company, the "iron lady" says she is trying to help more Tibetan women find themselves. Tashi was bor...

2019-01-03

Tibetan clothing shop gives disabled chance to work

Pasho County Ethnic Clothing Workshop, one of the county’s few successful local businesses, has been providing job opportunities for the physically challenged who live there.

2018-12-21

High plateau of potential

Amid the vast expanse of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the seeds of China's soccer dream have found an unlikely but fertile ground to sprout.

2018-12-13

Economic assumptions turn upside down

Lhasa, 2005: It was already 9:30 am. But the narrow whitewashed adobe alleyways of Lhasa’s old city were just beginning to awaken. That is because things start later in Lhasa. At 3,600 meters above sea level, breathing becomes difficult. ...

2018-12-04

Feature: Chinese traders eye Nepali market in trade expo

Norbu, proprietor of Tibet Holy Trust Industry and Trade Company based in Lhasa of China's Tibet Autonomous Region, is eyeing the Nepali market for its traditional high-end Yak cashmere products.

2018-12-02

A special Thangka painter's journey to art

One winter morning, the 29-year-old Dondrup Chophel got up. He first had a bowl of Tibetan noodles, then made a pot of yak butter tea and put it within his reach. Then, he added water to mineral colors for Thangka painting in a small electr...

2018-11-22

San Bao: Searching for soundless sound

On the first leg of Searching for Shangri-La expedition, I was joined by San Bao, one of China’s greatest music composers. From classical to pop, San Bao has created stars through his song writing and composition by writing hits for pop si...

2018-11-20

Dressmaker Drolma: I only do one thing in my whole life

"As the oldest daughter in my family of five girls, my family has only asked me to do one thing, to make Tibetan clothes. This is also what I most love to do," said Drolma, the inheritor of Tibetan clothing sewing skill, a provincial-level ...

2018-11-14