An extensive report by Human Rights Watch says China is accelerating the forced urbanization of Tibetan villagers and herders, adding to state government and independent reports of efforts to ...

Shanghaiist posted a short video via Explore.org illustrating the life in rural Tibet: We love this short video of the sights and sounds of rural Tibet. No narration, no subtitles, just powerful ...

Thirty years ago, when the first tractor appeared in the vast rural areas of the Tibet Autonomous Region, the curious local farmers fed the "iron ox'' with grass. Today, however, it is quite common ...

Beijing has set quotas for the mass transfer of rural laborers within Tibet and to other parts of China, according to over a hundred state media reports, policy documents from government bureaus in ...

Deng Jiaqiang (back row, center) joins villagers in Zhaxixiong village, Shigatse, Xizang autonomous region, for the spring plowing ceremony on March 16. [Photo provided to China Daily] Young Tibetans ...

“These relocations of rural communities erode or cause major damage to Tibetan culture and ways of life, not least because most relocation programs in Tibet move former farmers and pastoralists to ...

FILE - Yaks graze around tents set up for herders to live in the during the summer grazing season on grasslands near Lhasa in western China's Tibet Autonomous Region, as seen during a rare ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — China is accelerating the forced urbanization of Tibetan villagers and herders, Human Rights Watch said, in an extensive report that adds to state government and independent reports ...