Facts or propaganda? The press and publishing industry in Tibet is flourishing, with 23 newspapers and 34 periodicals (compared to one lithographically printed newspaper in Old Tibet that published fewer than 100 copies a day). In 2007, Tibet published 55.5m copies of newspapers, boasting double-digit growth for five successive years.
There are more amazing contrasts between the wonderful new and the appalling old in a white paper issued in Beijing entitled "Protection and development of Tibetan culture", posted by the Chinese news agency, Xinhua. It was up on the World Association of Newspapers site for a while but the link is blank now. It may be a glitch - or did WAN have second thoughts?
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