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Features archive - July 2010

• Tibet’s first gold coin at Hong Kong auction
  ON THE WEB, 29 July 2010
  Tibet's first gold coin, rated AU with an estimated price range US $30,000-60,000, will be on auction at Hyatt Regency Hotel Ballroom in Hong Kong on 23 August. ...
• Fewer Tibetans fleeing to the Dalai Lama
  DHARAMSHALA, India, 25 July 2010
  The Tibetan community in exile headed by the Dalai Lama is a constant irritant for China, but Beijing has hit upon a way to weaken the movement: starve it of new arrivals. ...
• Canada’s first traditional Tibetan Buddhist monastery opens
  VANCOUVER, Canada, 24 July 2010
  Richmond is now home to the first traditional-style Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Canada. ...
• Unease in Tibet over influx of China’s money and migrants
  LHASA, Tibet, 24 July 2010
  Han Chinese workers, investors, merchants, teachers and soldiers are pouring into remote Tibet. ...
• Tibet's next leader?
  DHARAMSHALA, India, 16 July 2010
  For those looking for the next spiritual leader of Tibet after the Dalai Lama, the ageing monk's 75th birthday ceremony last week offered some clues. ...
• No room to talk in 'stable' Tibet
  LHASA, China, 15 July 2010
  For two years now Tibet has been largely closed to foreign media. We were allowed in with a small group of journalists, escorted by Chinese minders. China's aim was to convince us that things are back to normal. ...
• Amsterdam avenue loses piece of Himalayas
  UPPER WEST SIDE, New York City, 15 July 2010
  The store that's brought a piece of the Himalayas to the Upper West Side for 18 years is closing its doors at the end of the month. ...
• Modernising Tibet masks deep contradictions
  LHASA, China, 8 July 2010
  Tibet is richer and more developed than it has ever been, its people healthier, more literate, and better dressed and fed. But China's pouring of millions in the region cannot hide broad contradictions and a deep sense of unhappiness among many Tibetans. ...
• In search of the real Panchen Lama
  SHIGATSE, China, 2 July 2010
  Exercising the ultimate political control, the Chinese Communist Party manufactured a 'holy' ceremony to appoint its own living god, writes John Garnaut from Shigatse in Tibet. ...
• Mutation in key gene allows Tibetans to thrive at high altitude
  ON THE WEB, 2 July 2010
  The gene mutation is much more common in Tibetans than Han Chinese and may represent the strongest instance of natural selection ever documented in a human population. ...