Prices spike upward in Tibet
Published: March 28, 2008 at 10:35 PM
A Tibetan woman told the Financial Times she was not to blame for the increase in the price of noodles in her small grocery store in Lhasa.
"It is the fault of my Han Chinese supplier," she said. "He is taking advantage of the problems to raise prices."
The Chinese government is sensitive about inflation, the newspaper said. The 1989 demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, which attracted worldwide attention to China, and other recent episodes of popular unrest were preceded by price hikes.
Stores in Tibetan neighborhoods in Lhasa were open Thursday for the first time in almost two weeks. Two women complained when they discovered that yak meat at one butcher shop was going for about $1.92 a pound.
"We are being ripped off," one customer said.
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