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His Holiness the Dalai Lama today started his first ever religious teaching in Lisbon, Portugal. A sold-out crowd of a few thousand people listened to the Tibetan Buddhist leader at the Auditório da Faculdade de Medicina Dentária

The project illustrates how the Chinese government is using the Games as an opportunity both to beautify the capital and to deal with awkward political problems, say human rights activists

Police in China last month deported eight foreign Tibet independence activists after they came to Beijing during the one-year Olympic countdown celebrations to protest against China's rule over the territory.

Half of the world’s population living in countries designated “Not Free” by Freedom House live in China. Tibetan Buddhists, Christians, Muslims and practitioners of other religions face frequent harassment

The 2007 IX Pawo Thupten Memorial Basketball Tournament in New York City, organised by Regional Tibetan Youth Congress of New York and New Jersey (RTYC NY&NJ) on September 8 to 9, was successfully concluded.

Plans are underway to start building a branch line for the Amdo-Lhasa Railway, which will link the Tibet’s capital Lhasa with Shigatse [Ch: Xigaze], a major Tibetan city some 280 kilometers to its South-West.

The statement came Sunday at the conclusion of the 2007 International Symposium on Tibetan Human Rights, with members of international organizations and human right groups from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, India,

"Taiwan's human-rights situation deserves as much attention, if not more, as the international community gives to Tibet," Chen said. Chen made the remarks at the Presidential Office yesterday morning while

"Whether one likes it or not, the people of Taiwan are entitled to the right of referendum," Chen told the opening session of an international seminar on human rights in Tibet

The United States had asked India to threaten China with military action in 1964 if it did not remove defence installations from Tibet, a new book has revealed.