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Writers, scholars, lawyers, and human rights advocates from around the world today sent a letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao urging immediate and unconditional release of the writer

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama presides over a Gaden Ngamchoe, day of Je Tsongkhapa's Parinirvana, prayer session in Dharamsala on Sunday, December 21, 2008. All over Tibet, Buddhists observe 25th day of the 10th month of the Tibetan Lunar calendar by offering lamps in monasteries, temples, stupas, and at homes to venerate the mortal departure of Lama Tsongkhapa, a great 14th century Tibetan Buddhist master who trained the first Dalai Lama and later became the founder of the Gelugpa (Yellow Hat) school of Tibetan Buddhism. Tibetan PM Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche, visiting Kalmykia PM Mr Viladmir Singleev and head of Kalmyk Buddhists Telo Rinpoche also attended the prayer session.(Phayul/Photo: Sonam Tsering)

A saga in China about a farmer nearly jailed over photos he took of a critically endangered tiger that were later judged to be fake has taken a new twist -- the photographer now claims

Apparent Chinese pressure has caused an untimely wrap-up of an ongoing visit by a Russian delegation to Dharamsala, the seat of the Tibetan Government-in-exile in northern India

The ruling Communist Party threw itself a big party on Thursday. The country’s leadership marked the 30th anniversary of the reform era that transformed China into a global economic power and, in doing so

Police held hundreds of protesting workers inside a suitcase factory in southern China to prevent them from staging a public demonstration about a wage dispute Friday, a worker said from the compound

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus yesterday asked the government to grant asylum to about 110 Tibetan refugees. DPP Legislator Kuan Bi-ling told a press conference that the Tibetan refugees

He is not only the first Romanian but also the first journalist from Romania to meet the Dalai Lama. The reason is already widely known: Sergiu Matei became widely known in September 2006 when he taped the killing of Tibetans by the Chinese border guards and helped

Chinese authorities have begun blocking access from mainland China to the Web site of The New York Times even while lifting some of the restrictions they had recently imposed on the Web sites of

The prestige of the Nobel Prizes may be at stake if an investigation for possible bribery proves China’s influence on Nobel committees for medicine, physics and chemistry