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China has detained 59 people in Tibet for spreading rumours and trying to stir up racial hatred and incite violence, state media reports.

Parents of some of the thousands of children killed in school collapses during China's massive earthquake in May said a court has rejected their lawsuit alleging shoddy construction was to blame for the deaths

Legislative aides from Taiwan's pro-independence opposition donned panda suits Wednesday, part of a public relations effort by anti-China lawmakers to paint the mainland's panda gift as a stalking horse for its

Legislative aides from Taiwan's pro-independence opposition donned panda suits Wednesday, part of a public relations effort by anti-China lawmakers to paint the mainland's panda gift as a stalking horse for its

According to the report, while an unnamed Tibetan youth was arrested in Lhasa on 20 November for raising slogan of Tibet’s independence, the reason for the arrest of Khenpo Jampa Gyaltsen, abbot of Woeser monastery in Markham County of

A life sentence given to a former Tibetan monk alleged to have taken part in protests this year was an “injustice”, according to associates. Wangdu, 41, who had been a HIV/Aids project officer with the Burnet Institute, a leading Australian medical

More than 500 security guards and armed police were keeping watch Monday at an airport in southwest China where a pair of pandas will take off for their new home in Taiwan, state media reported

Two giant pandas Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, seen here at an enclosure in Sichuan, southwest China, ahead of their long-anticipated departure to Taiwan. When put together, the 4-year-old pandas' names "Tuan Tuan" and "Yuan Yuan" in Chinese mean "reunion", which has angered pro-independence Taiwanese. Beijing first offered the pandas to Taiwan in 2005 hoping they would improve the two sides' relations. The offer was, however, rejected by the island's former leaders because to do so would acknowledge the PRC's "one China" position. China maintains that because the self-ruled island is part of it, the pandas are a "domestic transfer" and the Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Species does not apply. The two pandas arrived at Taiwan’s Taipei City Zoo on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008. (Phayul/ Photo: AFP)

Besides the humanitarian element, China’s Tibet plan has global ramifications in terms of ecology, economy and security. It is a fit case for international institutional intervention. Treating China’s Tibetan and other geographical

A court official in Dhartsedo confirmed the ongoing sentencing of Tibetan protesters. Only “serious cases” were being brought to the Dhartsedo court, while “other cases are tried in their respective counties of