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Huge but largely powerless, the Chinese parliament's main advisory body is a gaggle of businessmen, farmers, movie stars and Tibetan monks meant to keep Chinese leaders in touch with what's going on in the nation's far-flung regions.

When Thubten Wangchen was 4 years old, his mother died in a Chinese work camp. She was pregnant at the time, and according to Mr. Wangchen, the Chinese were rounding up pregnant women and working them to death.

Sleeping on a train's hard berth from Beijing to Tibet may cost you less than US$100 in the near future, only one-third of a one-way air ticket at present.

US President George W Bush will hold a meeting with nine prominent persons representing five religions tomorrow including a Shia leader from Lucknow, a Tibetan monk and a Dalit scholar.

With slow, rhythmic prayers, Ithaca's Tibetan Buddhist community rang in their new year Tuesday morning amid more than 50 onlookers.

To educate Tibetan school children about our rich wildlife heritage and its significance to earth, the Winterline Nature Trust and the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) organized a wildlife safari for a group

The Director of the Dharamsala-based Library of Tibetan Works and Archive, Ven. Lhakdor, concluded successfully his weeklong tour of Mexico on February 26. During his tour of Mexico, he visited Monterrey, the capital of industrial

One year after China's Regulations on Religious Affairs came into force, Chinese citizens' ability to exercise their right to freedom of religion remains as subject to arbitrary restrictions as ever

Living upto its own commitment the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on February 25 held a press conference at the site of the TYC Indefinite Hunger Strike as a mark of its acceptance of the demands of the three Hunger Strikers.

To educate Tibetan school children about our rich wildlife heritage and its significance to earth, the Winterline Nature Trust and the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) organized a wildlife safari for a group of children from the Tibetan Home Foundation