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The Himalayas and sacred religious sites such as Drepung Monastery in Lhasa are being disrupted by mainland Chinese moving in and opening businesses, thereby increasing

Central China Goldfields PLC said the first results from early drilling at the Tinggong exploration licence area in the Nimu copper project in Tibet are 'encouraging' and demonstrate the presence

The Continental Minerals Corporation's Xiangcun copper-gold deposit in Tibet is due to start development in the near future, a source close to the situation said Thursday. Continental Minerals is a publicly-traded mining company based in

Lately, China may have thought the military balance had shifted in its favour with completion of the 1,118-kilometre Qinghai-Tibet railway and other military

Tibet's cultural heritage suffered during the chaos of the 1966-79 Cultural Revolution, when fanatical Maoist Red Guards smashed religious symbols and destroyed monasteries. Some have

On April 18, 1959, after arriving in India, His Holiness the Dalai Lama issued a press statement in Tezpur, Assam stating that the 17 Point Agreement had been signed under pressure

As part of a campaign he launched in April 2005 in collaboration with Care for the Wild International (CWI) and the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), the Dalai Lama, in January 2006, issued an emotional

The Dalai Lama may still make a pit stop at Melbourne Town Hall, with councillors under pressure to receive the Tibetan spiritual leader. But with councillors preparing to vote on the

Bihar government recently presented a Bill for the revival of Nalanda International University. Japan and Singapore support the initiative and have pledged to invest about $100 million. Will this

Zhang also told Maass that he had the right to travel to Tibet under the new rules for the foreign press, but he still needed to obtain an authorization from the representatives of