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Chinese authorities reportedly detained 3 monks of Kirti monastery in Ngaba, a source with contacts there

On the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising Day, Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) launched “Indefinite Fast for Tibet” in Brussels, Belgium to protest against

Paramilitary police and soldiers swarmed cities and villages in Tibet and restive western China on Tuesday, on the alert for possible unrest on the 50th anniversary of the failed uprising that sent the Dalai Lama into exile

Speaking to a group of journalists on Monday in the Swedish Parliament in the capital Stockholm, Mr. Kelsang Gyaltsen, the Envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama for European Union,

Around 500 people attended a special function at the Phoenix ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel, Flushing, New York on March 10, 2009. The function commemorated the fiftieth anniversary

A dozen Students for a Free Tibet activists and their supporters held a silent freeze during lunch at a bustling Calgary downtown shopping center to commemorate

China's assiduous attempts to whitewash history will not convince either the Tibetan people or the people of the world that the brutal repression of Tibet was justified or legitimate. Instead, the broad consensus outside China

CHINA WILL never become a Western-style multiparty democracy, and will stick to the principles of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the country’s top legislator told the annual parliament, the National People’s Congress

Pro-Tibet activists attend a demonstration in Warsaw March 10, 2009 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising against China. The Dalai Lama marked 50 years in exile on Tuesday by demanding "meaningful autonomy" for his Tibetan homeland, where Chinese authorities tightened security to stifle protests against their rule. (REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko)

The Chinese have a problem. They are not able to look at facts straight. Already fifty years ago, on March 10, 1959, when the entire population of Lhasa, the Tibetan capital revolted against their rule, their mouthpiece,