A member of the U.S. Olympic team would face no official rebuke for wearing a T-shirt that said, "Free Tibet," while walking the streets of Beijing during the 2008 Summer Games.
In the nearly 60 years Tom Lantos spent in the United States, he never lost his Hungarian accent, his love for animals or his stubborn belief that political leaders have a duty to speak out against
The 11th Mindrolling Trichen, Kyabje Mindrolling Trichen Jurme Kunzang Wangyal, the ceremonial head of the Nyingma lineage, the oldest school of the Tibetan Buddhism, has passed away
Britain's sports authorities have backed away from a plan to prohibit athletes representing the United Kingdom in the Beijing Olympic Games from making any comments critical of China's human rights record.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama mourned the demise of Baba Amte, the renowned Indian humanitarian activist and winner of Magsaysay award, who due to prolong illness, breathed his last on Saturday. He was 94.
Thousands of monks and villagers lit yak butter candles and chanted mantras as they packed monasteries in northwest China this weekend to commemorate the birthday of the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
The two Losar Kyipo-tang concerts of 8 and 9 February, celebrated as "Tibetan Music Festival", organised by Gonpo Entertainment in Bylakuppe, ended with much jubilation and applause with the introduction of some new artistes.
British Olympic chiefs are to force athletes to sign a contract promising not to speak out about China's appalling human rights record – or face being banned from travelling to Beijing.
British athletes will be banned from competing in this summer's Olympic Games in Beijing if they criticise China's totalitarian regime. The gagging order has been imposed by the British Olympic
210 million Chinese have web access and any day now China will have more users than the US. But instead of spreading freedom, the net has been tamed by Beijing's iron grip
