China today sentenced brother of recently jailed Tibetan environmentalist Karma Samdrup to five years in prison and three years’ deprivation of political rights for “inciting t
An award-winning Tibetan environmentalist goes on trial tomorrow (Saturday), the third of three brothers to face jail after clashing with Chinese Communist Party
The Dalai Lama's 75th birthday on July 6 marks a bittersweet milestone. The anniversary is cause for celebration that his message of peace has become so widespread, yet it is also illustrative of his mortal frailty as China's power
Outward normality has returned to the thin air of Tibet's capital Lhasa. But, more than two years after ethnic violence erupted there, residents still talk of fear
The Xinhua News Agency, China’s dominant news service and the propaganda arm of the Communist Party, introduced a 24-hour English-language news channel and is prep
Eventually their bodies begin to produce more oxygen-carrying hemoglobin and they adapt to the environment. But Tibetans, because of their genetic variations, are able to function with lower levels of hemoglobin
The young monk once again found himself in front of microphones and television cameras. It was much the same as on March 28, 2008, when the monk, Norgye, and dozens of fellow monks barged into a temple chamber where foreign journalists were being escorted around by Chinese government officials
China on Thursday opened its fourth civilian airport in the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). The new airport named Gunsa Airport, in Ngari Prefecture, became operational with the landing of a passenger plane of
China said Thursday that U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is welcome to visit at an appropriate time, just weeks after it rejected a proposed trip by him
