A business dispute between ethnic Tibetans and Chinese Moslems in China's western Qinghai Province flared into large-scale communal violence, resulting in hundreds of injuries and massive property damage, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.
A six-day international conference will be held at the University of Calgary in a bid to inspire the public to take action on the plight of Tibet's people.
A Tibetan doctor is in Durban this week to promote an ancient holistic and alternative approach to medicinal treatment - particularly with regard to the treatment of HIV and Aids symptoms.
Firefighting teams of soldiers and Tibetan villagers put out a forest fire late Friday that burned for two days in the Himalayan region, an official said.
Proclaiming the words "Free Tibet" at a Lhasa, Tibet, marketplace in 1994 cost the soft-spoken and diminutive nun Passang Lhamo dearly — five years in prison.
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is making a brief trip to Asia including a stopover in China, where he is expected to seek cooperation on North Korea and Iraq and raise human rights issues.
Senior Chinese Communist Party leader Jia Qinglin Thursday met Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu, the 11th Panchen Lama-who is not recognised by His Holiness the Dlaia Lama, at the Great Hall of the People in downtown Beijing.
A year after its formation, Students For a Free Tibet (SFT) Delhi chapter, as a part of their Tibet awareness campaign, organized the Tibet Awareness Concert yesterday at Delhi University’s Hindu College auditorium.
