Category Archives: Features

• A little bit of Tibet in Goa 7 December 2014 no comments

  You've heard of Goa's flea markets, fish markets, and even the Saturday night markets. Ever hear of the Tibetan markets in north Goa's tourism belt of Calangute-Anjuna? ...

• Oh, Big Brother: How many sites are now blocked in China 26 September 2014 | Steven Millward no comments

  The real issue with all China's web censorship is how it’s keeping people in the dark on a range of important yet contentious issues, happening on the kind of sites that are more in-depth than a page on Facebook or G+ could ever be. ...

• Momo dumplings grow more popular in Queens with new Tibetan restaurant 28 August 2014 | Eli Rosenberg no comments

  The little-known momo dumpling continues its rise in Queens with the opening of a new brick-and-mortar restaurant dedicated to the Himalayan snack in Sunnyside. ...

• Tibetans in Ladakh – fifty years after 15 July 2014 | Lobsang Wangyal 2 comments

  The people of Ladakh share the ancient Tibetan Buddhist culture with Tibetan refugees from Tibet, but relations between them are not always the best. ...

• Lone Tibetan at Spangmik: One-man army for Tibet 10 July 2014 | Lobsang Wangyal 3 comments

  A visit to Ladakh would not be complete without a circuit of the holy and picturesque Pangong Lake. ...

• Tibetans’ altitude tolerance may have come from our extinct relatives 4 July 2014 | John Timmer no comments

  A tiny fragment of Denisovan DNA has been found in Tibetans, and seems to help them adapt to the extreme elevations of the Tibetan plateau. ...

• Just Back: Tibet’s sacred mantra 30 June 2014 | Lisa Lermon no comments

  At 5ft tall, its golden form was adorned with rubies, coral, turquoise and other precious gems, and, to me, appeared redolent with mystery. ...

• Tibet mountainous long before Himalayas 14 May 2014 | Jane Qiu no comments

  Rock isotopes and fossils suggest the Tibetan Plateau to be already as high as they are today before India collided with Asia about 50 million years ago. ...

• Tibetan refugees longing for their homeland 4 April 2014 | Gautam Raja, Special to Weekend Review no comments

  Tibetans speak about life in exile in Bylakuppe — one of their largest settlements in the Indian state of Karnataka in South India. ...

• Tibetan monk rescues German teenager from the streets of Cardiff 24 March 2014 | Emma Sisk no comments

  A teen runaway from Germany has been rescued from the streets of Cardiff after a Tibetan monk took him in. ...