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Tibetan refugees yesterday threatened to stage another sit-in if the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission (MTAC) refused to grant them residency permits as promised

Aside from the 1959 Tibetan uprising, other sensitive anniversaries include the quelling of the Tiananmen democracy protests 20 years ago in June 1989 and 10 years since a crackdown on the Falungong spiritual group, he said

Not only cultural genocide is taking place in Tibet, what China is doing there is causing rampant and irreparable damage to Tibet’s delicate environment that holds Tibetan people’s unique way of life, according to a Canada-based Han Chinese writer

Concert promoters said the Chinese culture ministry recently found out that Noel Gallagher played at a Free Tibet benefit in the US in 1997. The rest of the band's South-East Asian tour will go ahead as planned.

Security forces have surrounded a Tibetan monastery in a tense region of southwest China after monks there demonstrated against Chinese repression, activist groups

In solidarity with the 'No Losar' movement inside Tibet, Tibetans in France held a

Years of Chinese government denunciations and decades in exile have not loosened the Dalai Lama's influence over Tibetans in his homeland, where his banned image remains treasured.

Media persons throng to hear His Holiness the Dalai Lama speak as he arrives at the Gaggal airport near Dharamsala, Monday, March 2, 2009. The exiled Tibetan leader arrived to his exile home town in Northern India after spending weeks touring Europe and then Tibetans settlements in south India around the Tibetan New Year (Losar) time. During a four-day visit to Europe the Dalai Lama was made the honorary citizen of the Italian cities of Rome and Venice. In Germany he was awarded the 2008 German Media Prize. (Photo by Tenzin Dasel/Phayul)

Seven pro-Tibetan activists posed as delegates to a downtown mining convention yesterday morning, then unfurled a red, six-metre banner that read "HDI – Stop Mining Tibet."

News is emerging of a protest this morning (March 1, 2009) by several hundred monks from Sey monastery in Ngaba (Chinese: Aba), the Tibetan area of Amdo, after officials prevented them from marking a major prayer festival