Tag Archives: Development

• President Xi tells officials to look to Qinghai as model for governing Tibet and Xinjiang 10 June 2021 | Jun Mai This post has 2 comments

  Chinese President Xi Jinping ended a three-day tour of the northwestern province of Qinghai on Wednesday by stressing its importance for maintaining order in neighbouring Xinjiang and Tibet. ...

• India plans dam on Brahmaputra to offset Chinese construction upstream 1 December 2020 | Neha Arora and Devjyot Ghoshal This post has no comments yet

  India is considering a plan to build a 10 gigawatts (GW) hydropower project in a remote eastern state, an Indian official said on Tuesday, following reports that China could construct dams on a section of the Brahmaputra river. ...

• China eyes 60 GW of hydropower on Tibet’s Brahmaputra river | Reuters Staff This post has no comments yet

  China could build up to 60 gigawatts of hydropower capacity on a section of the Brahmaputra river, known as the Yarlung Tsangbo, which flows from Tibet into India and Bangladesh, Chinese state media reported on Monday. ...

• McLeod Ganj finally gets attention from local authorities 27 November 2018 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has 2 comments

  Local authorities are at last taking the initiative to clean up McLeod Ganj. Sanitation Supervisor Surindar Shukla said there are proposals for improvements, including adding recycling. ...

• PM Modi hails sweeping reforms for India’s fast growth 15 August 2016 This post has one comment

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India was becoming the world's most attractive destination for foreign investors, using his annual Independence Day speech to trumpet sweeping tax reforms designed to spur growth. ...

• Tibet ‘consensus’ slammed by rights group 12 July 2016 This post has no comments yet

  A rights group on Tuesday slammed foreign representatives for attending a Chinese government-organised forum in Tibet that claimed international support for a "Lhasa Consensus" on economic development. ...

• Tibet development forum opens in Lhasa 7 July 2016 This post has no comments yet

  The Forum on the Development of Tibet opened on Thursday in the regional capital Lhasa. ...

• Hopes rise as UN adopts draft agreement on climate change 5 December 2015 | David Williams and Mariëtte Le Roux This post has no comments yet

  Negotiators from 195 nations delivered a blueprint for a pact to save mankind from disastrous global warming, raising hopes that decades of arguments will finally end with a historic agreement in Paris. ...

• World leaders open Paris climate summit 30 November 2015 | Karl Malakunas and Mariëtte Le Roux This post has no comments yet

  World leaders opened an historic summit in the French capital on Monday with "the hope of all of humanity" laid on their shoulders as they sought a deal to avert a climate catastrophe. ...

• Smart city can wait: First fix the basics 8 November 2015 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has 5 comments

  Before the dream of a Smart City, we would rather have the basics fixed. ...