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For Tibetans in the homeland and elsewhere, the new year -- known as Losar -- is the biggest holiday of all. Not this year.

Instead of planning festivities to mark their beloved New Year's, Tibetans want to remember those who died in last year's protests against Chinese rule. But Beijing has other ideas.

Four Tibetans in Kardze County, Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province, have been sentenced to varying prison terms for taking part in protests last spring, according to a Tibetan rights group

The former partner of Yves Saint Laurent, who is selling the art collection he built up with the late fashion designer, said he would hand over two sculptures claimed by China -- but only if Beijing agreed to free Tibet

Geshe Tsultim Gyeltsen, a leading Tibetan lama, human rights activist and founder of a Buddhist center in Long Beach, died Feb. 13 after a short illness. He was 85.

RTYC New York & New Jersey held a protest rally in New York city yesterday in protest against the arrests of at least 21 Tibetans following the recent protests in

Tibet’s Government in exile Saturday asked China to withdraw what it calls “undeclared martial law in Tibet” and call off the “strike hard” campaign launched last month, saying these will further provoke Tibetans ahead

Scratch only a little bit, and Dorje, a Tibetan nomad, lets loose with a tirade at the people he simply calls "the Chinese," the majority Han who he says will get no respite from Tibetan frustration this year - or for generations

Chinese police are monitoring dissidents and confining some to their homes during this weekend's visit by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, AP reported a rights group saying on Saturday

US-based Tibet advocate groups are calling on the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to press Beijing on Tibet as her maiden visit to China, starting Friday, comes in the wake of an intensified military clampdown in the restive Himalayan region