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Five Tibetans were given lengthy prison sentences ranging from 3 -10 years' imprisonment by the Kardze Intermediate People's Court in Dartsedo. The Tibetans were charged with offenses

Kelsang Yangkyi Takla, Kalon (minister) for the Department of Information and International Relations of the Tibetan Government-in-exile on Wednesday congratulated the president-elect Barack Obama on winning the historic election

China’s top nine state-run media, including the official Xinhua news agency and People's Daily Online, are set to launch a major propaganda drive beginning today to highlight

Three county courts of the "Tibet Autonomous Region" ('TAR') sentenced 14 Tibetans to varying prison terms on alleged crimes ranging from endangering public security, robbery, smashing or looting and creating disturbances in so called "March riot",

China today accused the Dalai Lama of playing tricks of ‘retirement’ and called “groundless” his disappointment. A commentary on Xinhua, the official news agency said

The Centre for Studies on modern and contemporary China and the Research Center on Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan civilizations, Paris, France, organised a one-day conference on the recent events in Tibet at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social

China arrested a Tibetan monk who, an exile Tibetan right group says, provided rare information about China’s military crackdown on the Tibetan people to foreign media. According to the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, 50 men from Sangchu

Tibetan settlers in Delhi breathed a sigh of temporary relief as they were given ‘Provisional Regularization Certificate’ by the Indian government. The Tibetan camps at Majnu Ka Tilla and Budh Vihar were among the Indian capital’s 1000

Singing patriotic songs from the Martial Law Era and shouting anti-communist slogans popular during former dictator Chiang Kai-shek’s reign, a group of pro-independence activists officially inaugurated the Taiwanese Youth Anti-Communist National Salvations Corps

A pro-Tibet activist scuffles with the police as she tries to unfurl a Tibet flag outside the venue where Chen Yunlin, Chairman of China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), is meeting Cecilia Koo, wife of former Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) chairman Koo Chen-fu, in Taipei November 3, 2008. China's top negotiator on Taiwan affairs began a historic trip on Monday to the self-ruled island that Beijing claims as its own to talk trade and transit as the opposition planned protests against warming ties. Talks between Chen and Taiwan's top negotiator on China policy, SEF Chairman P.K. Chiang, will be held from November 3 to 7./REUTERS/Nicky Loh (TAIWAN)