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A Tibetan monk and teacher of traditional monastic dance (Cham) from the Tibetan area of Amdo has been sentenced to four years in prison after he gave talks about Tibetan culture and history.

Is the Dalai Lama closer now than ever before to embarking on his first visit to China in over four and a half decades? Atmospherics in Beijing and McLeodganj, the headquarters of the Tibetan government-in-exile in India

China has recorded details of more than 96 percent of its population on a police database, state media reported on Friday, supplementing Internet and other state-sanctioned surveillance.

In an unexpected turn of events in the largest non governmental organisation of the exile Tibetan community, Kalsang Phuntsok Godrukpa, who earlier on 26 January resigned from the presidentship

The stage was set on April Fools Day for a veritable rock concert in Mcleod Ganj. Wedged in a corner of the Yongling school rooftop, the Exile Brothers showed that their blend of thumping beats and sweet percussion appealed to Tibetans, Indians,

China has increased its media censorship and its harassment and abuse of journalists and democracy activists, despite criticism and efforts by the United States to increase democratic freedoms there

A trade market on the Sino-Indian border is under construction and scheduled to open in June, following a plan made in 2004 that the two countries would set up their first direct trade link since 1962.

China is to start the construction of Tibet's Yulong copper mine, the country's largest with 6.5 million tons of reserves, next month.

The little medical kit is deceptively, heartbreakingly simple: a sterile razor blade, three baby blankets, some pills, a fingernail brush, a tiny hat. It's not much - but it's helping reduce the mother and infant death

Visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has acknowledged that his country has shortcomings in the area of human rights. Premier Wen and his New Zealand counterpart, Prime Minister Helen Clark