Information and News Stories relating to the Lhasa-Golmud Railway
- Tracking the Steel Dragon: How China's economic policies and the railroad are transforming Tibet
International Campaign for Tibet
February 28th, 2008 - On top of the world
The Globe and Mail
October 27th, 2006 - Security stepped up for opening of railway: elite armed corps travels on inaugural journey
International Campaign for Tibet
July 12th, 2006 - Political repression intensifies as Tibet railway opens
International Campaign for Tibet
June 30th, 2006 - Railroading Tibet
John Ackerly; The Wall Street Journal Asia, Editorial
June 30th, 2006 - Next stop, Lhasa
Abrahm Lustgarten, FORTUNE Magazine
June 5th, 2006 - Bombardier and the Tibetan cultural genocide
Tenzin Dargyal, Op-Ed
May 30th, 2006 - Prevent Train Loads Of Trouble For Fragile Tibet
Wang Yanlin, Shanghai Daily
May 15th, 2006 - First Four Scheduled Trains to Tibet
XinHua
May 8th, 2006 - Mixed messages from Beijing on Tibet railroad - Permafrost may endanger its safety within a decade: pomp and ceremony promised for opening
April 21st, 2006 - Frozen soil thawing faster, endangering Qinghai-Tibet Railway
XinHua
February 5th, 2006 - Mechanical failure blamed for locomotive collision in Tibet
XinHua
January 21st, 2006 - Global Demonstrations Target Bombardier Offices: Pressure Increases on Company to Withdraw from Controversial Tibet Railway
November 3rd, 2005 - Railway to roof of the world threatens to squeeze Tibet
Peter Harmsen, AFP
August 4th, 2005 - Heavy-Handed Approach Criticized as China Renovates Lhasa's Potala Palace
Peter Harmsen, AFP
August 3rd, 2005 - China railroads over Tibet's suffering
Kate Saunders/Deccan Chronicle
July 26th, 2005 - Tibet Activists Target Nortel's Annual Meeting: Company Under Fire For Role In Controversial Railway
International Campaign for Tibet
June 29th, 2005 - Warm weather may threaten world's highest railway
China Daily
June 23rd, 2005 - Activist Scales Hotel with Tibetan Flag and Calls on Bombardier to Leave Tibet: Activists Say Rail Contract Facilitates Cultural Genocide
International Campaign for Tibet
June 7th, 2005 - Iron Dragon runs roughshod over Tibet
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty/Radio Free Asia
May 11th, 2005 - Resettlement and railroad construction in Lhasa: new images
International Campaign for Tibet
April 15th, 2005 - Tibetans in Tibet Speak Out Against Golmud-Lhasa Rail Link
International Campaign for Tibet
October 29th, 2003 - Railway Poses Risk of HIV/AIDS in Tibetan Area, Says U.S. Embassy Report
International Campaign for Tibet
October 9th, 2003 - China's Railway to Tibet Erodes Nomadic Life
Jeremy Page, Reuters
August 23rd, 2002 - The Threat to India from Tibet
Vijay Kranti, New Delhi Navbharat Times
August 21st, 2002 - A railroad to progress or just another chain to China?
John Gittings, The Guardian
February 9th, 2002 - Tibetan exiles slam China railway project
CNN
May 15th, 2001 - High hopes for railway on the roof of the world
Tony Allison, Asia Times
March 23rd, 2001 - China's big projects raise hackles
Willy Wo-Lap Lam, CNN.com Senior China Analyst
March 14th, 2001 - A Line In Tibet
William C. Triplett II, The Washington Post
January 2nd, 2001
