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Dr. Galia Sabar of Tel Aviv University has won the prestigious Unsung Heroes Award in recognition of her ongoing academic research and social activity in the fields of Ethiopian Jews and the African migrant labor community in

China's powerful Central Propaganda Department has ordered a crackdown on Chinese media workers who signed a document this month calling for sweeping political reforms, a management executive at a state-run media organization said

Students for a Free Tibet will host a fundraising party — "Tibet Will Be Free" — on Sunday at the Indian Walk-In Center, 120 W. 1300 South, Salt Lake City. The group, made up of Tibetan youths and their non-Tibetan supporters

"When I was a kid, it was a lot longer," said Lama, pointing at the Lirung glacier surrounded by snowy peaks on Nepal's northern border with Tibet

The Jokhang temple was closed for two months this year after initially peaceful protests by Buddhist monks against Chinese rule turned violent in March

The famed Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times" is apocryphal; but perhaps it should have been coined for 2008. Both China's citizens and outside observers thought the year would be dominated by the Olympics. Instead, it

Tibetans and their supporters are also joining the global call for the immediate release of Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese literary critic and former literature professor who was arbitrarily arrested from his home on December 8th and questioned, just prior to the

The inaugural function of the shooting of Tibetan cultural telefilm, "Om Mani!", was held in Sikkim on 25th December 2008. The telefilm is being produced by Lodor Productions; a Gangtok based

After years of talking to Tibetan exiles about conditions in their homeland, Chinese officials have made it clear that they were not serious about it. Unless the international community adopts a coordinated position on Tibet’s autonomy

Every designer has a way of working backstage, and seeing Sonam Dubal justifies that he is as much an organised man as an ingenious designer. There is a palpable glow in his eyes as he hands out the bakhu skirts and oriental wraps