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The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, has called on followers to be patient with his efforts to build relations with the Chinese government, saying that talks with Beijing are making progress.

Septuagenarian S S Pangtey smiles as he "looks down" from his abode located at an altitude of 2,290 metres in Munsyari, the eastern most part of Pithoragarh district, which lay on the trade route to Tibet.

The Dalai Lama said on Wednesday he was still waiting for a response from China about whether he can visit the country, which has ruled his homeland Tibet since the 1950s.

Zhang Qingli has been appointed the secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region, the CPC Central Committee announced on May 29.

The Dalai Lama said Wednesday that independence for Tibet was not in the interest of the Himalayan region, which he said could benefit from China's economic growth if it remains part of the country. But the Buddhist leader reiterated his demands

The 16-year-old China-backed Panchen Lama Gyaltsen Norbu recently took a ten-day tour of the ethnic-Tibetan inhabited areas in Yunnan province and concluded that the province enjoyed

As we linger around the 17th anniversary of China's Tiananmen Square massacre, human rights abuses continue to be standard practice in that country, even as it nurtures capitalism

After hours of deadlock over the ATPD chairman's post the members of the Tibetan exile parliament went for the middle way as it decided to divide the chairman's term into two between contenders

Two of the group of Tibetan former political prisoners known as the 'Drapchi singing nuns' have just arrived safely in exile after escaping from Tibet across the Himalayas.

The 14th Assembly of the Tibetan People's Deputies is most likely to see two chairpersons in five years. The Election Commissioner yesterday suggested that a way out of the stalemate could be