"Mining Tycoon Says: Tibetans Hope to Get Rich from Mining" By Woeser

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser that was originally written for broadcast on Radio Free Asia on September 9, 2010 in Beijing and posted on her blog on September 28, 2010. 

The Virtual Sweet Tea House: An Overview of the Tibetan Cyberspace

Screenshot from a Tibetan blog

High Peaks Pure Earth is posting an original article originally written on the occasion of BlogDay, August 31, 2010. The article is a general overview of the Tibetan blogosphere and was first posted on this site I Heart Tibet. It was also later re-posted on The Comment Factory. Apologies for the late posting on High Peaks Pure Earth!

"Avatar" in Tibet By Woeser

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser that was originally written for broadcast on Radio Free Asia on September 1, 2010 in Beijing and posted on her blog on September 8, 2010. 

In this blogpost, Woeser refers to recent incidents in Tibet involving protests against the extraction of natural resources such as mining. Photos of the protest that occurred in the Shigatse area in May 2010 that were sent to Radio Free Asia at the time were re-posted on Woeser's blog, follow this link to see the photos that Woeser refers to in her blogpost.

More recently, there have been various reports of protests in eastern Tibet in August 2010 in which several Tibetans were shot dead, at least four according to this report by Radio Free Asia. However, official Chinese state media have only reported one death, read the Xinhua article "17 police injured, one Tibetan dead in dispute" here and the Associated Press report "Police accidentally killed Tibetan" here.

A Blogpost and A Poem About the Mudslides in Drugchu

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost and a poem both written about the devastating mudslides that affected Drugchu (Chinese: Zhouqu) in Amdo.