Category Archives: Features

• Three poles: The Arctic, Antarctic and Himalayas all connect 2 June 2013 | Falk Huettmann and Ashok K Roy no comments

  For many there are two poles; but for some there are three poles which are so lovely, so inviting, and have so much in common in terms of their extreme physical ecosystems. ...

• Has Hollywood sold out on Tibet? 17 May 2013 | Benjamin Carlson no comments

  The absurd has become real: DreamWorks Animation will team up with the China Film Group, a state-owned company, to make “The Tibet Code.” ...

• The world’s third-largest area of ice is about to undergo a systematic investigation 10 May 2013 no comments

  Tibet is known as Asia’s water tower, the source of ten of the continent’s biggest rivers. About 1.5 billion people, in 12 countries, live in the basins of those rivers. ...

• Forgotten victims of Tibet 29 April 2013 | Rani Singh no comments

  High in the Himalayan mountains in Nepal, five miles from the Tibetan border at 7,000ft, 88-year-old Pasang Lama sits outside a ramshackle hut. ...

• Acclaimed Tibetan singer now calls Kingston home 25 March 2013 | Jeremiah Horrigan no comments

  Yungchen Lhamo has led — and continues to lead — an extraordinary life. But seated in her Kingston home, she worries about telling her story. Her life is easily misunderstood. ...

• Polar bear hunting and migration ‘hit by warming climate’ 20 March 2013 no comments

  One of the most southerly populations of polar bears now has only limited time to hunt on sea ice due to a warming climate, research suggests. ...

• Beauty whose heart beats for Tibet 10 March 2013 | Anusha Vincent no comments

  Growing up, Tenzing Lhamo always thought models in beauty pageants were 'such elegant creatures with beautiful long legs'. She wanted to become one, some day. ...

• Millions for a mastiff at China Tibetan dog expo 10 March 2013 | Tom Hancock no comments

  A year-old Tibetan Mastiff was up for sale on Saturday for five million Chinese yuan ($800,000), at a dog show in Baoding, ...

• Chinese painter portrays Tibet self-immolators 13 January 2013 | Gillian Wong no comments

  Beijing-based artist Liu Yi is working on a series of black-and-white portraits he knows will never be shown in a Chinese gallery. ...

• Café Tibet, Berkeley: intriguing dishes 20 December 2012 | Simon FF Young no comments

  Going to Café Tibet is like going back in time, with a spinning prayer wheel at the front door and walls filled with memories of lost Tibet. ...