WTN for January 2017

• Tibetans in anguish as Chinese mines pollute their sacred grasslands - Washington Post
• China pushes plans to bottle and ship Tibet’s clean water - Globe and Mail
• The road to Tibet will soon be a freeway to a tourists’ playground - Globe and Mail
• Chinese and Western students evicted from Larung Gar - Radio Free Asia
• Tensions on the roof of the world - CNN

• China blocks Tibetans from visiting India - Press Trust of India
• Rethink in New Delhi: Dalai Lama, Karmapa to be in the public gaze - Indian Express
• China calls Dalai Lama’s Kalachakra ‘illegal,’ threatens punishment for those taking part - Radio Free Asia
• Tibetans in China defy warnings, support the Kalachakra - Radio Free Asia
• Spain's Constitutional Court accepts Tibet case appeal - Comité de Apoyo al Tíbet

• Eat, pray, love the Communist Party: a road trip through Tibetan lands, guided by China - Los Angeles Times
• Online restrictions limit access to Dalai Lama's Kalachakra teaching - Citizen Lab, University of Toronto
• Hundreds of Tibetans defy China, gather at birthplace of Buddhism in India - Washington Post
• Swiss limit Tibetan protest against visit by Chinese president - Reuters
• China appoints new Tibet governor - Reuters

• Opinion: India’s policy change on Tibet a challenge to China's hegemony - Wall Street Journal
• Rights groups call for release of Tibetan education advocate charged with “inciting separatism” - New York Times
• Tibetans in Chengdu demand bilingual education for their children - Radio Free Asia
• Temporary halt of Larung Gar demolitions and evictions - Phayul
• Dalai Lama expresses hope that Trump and Putin will work toward global peace - Voice of America

• Tibet's bottled water output to exceed one million tonnes - Business Standard
• Tibetan doctor linked to self-immolation is freed after beatings, torture - Radio Free Asia
• Tibet locked down, foreigners required to leave as sensitive anniversary approaches - FIDH/ICT
• China objects as Tibetan leaders attend US ambassador dinner - India Express
• China worried about spread of Tibetan Buddhism - Sunday Guardian