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It is known as the "Great Firewall of China," and like its counterpart built centuries before, it is intended to block unwanted invaders from the outside world.

It may be stating the obvious to say the Greek government has banned Olympic spectators from bringing bombs to events, but it has also asked them to leave their skateboards, propaganda, small change and non-copyright Olympic T-shirts at home.

The North American Tsokchen or the 4th North American Tibetan Youth Congress Conference (NATYC) was held in Tibet House, New York August 7th and 8th 2004. Delegates from five regions of North and South America were present during the conference.

Now no matter where he goes, Tsering Phuntsok will no longer be a man without a country. Although he's felt like an American for a long time, on Monday he officially became a citizen of the United States.

Geshe Jampel Senge to attend Inter-Religious Conference on "Religion, Peace and the Olympic Ideal" in Athens. Under the auspices of His Excellency, President Constantine Stephanopoulos of Greece and at the invitation of BATHOLOMEW

The Grammy award-winning monks from the Papung Sherab Ling Monastery in Himachal Pradesh today performed on stage for the first time and it just happened to be in Delhi.

In the true spirit of material renunciation, even at an honour ceremony, Grammy-winning Buddhist monks shunned praise and spoke of prayers for Indian hostages in Iraq and for world peace.

The Forbidden Team screening on SBS Television on Monday, 9 August at 7.30pm is the story of the exiled Tibetan national soccer team’s first-ever game, played against Greenland.

Tibet's remoteness has long made the mountainous Asian nation a source of fascination in the West. But, beginning in 1950, Tibet attracted a different sort of fame – political notoriety – when the People's Republic of China took the country by force

Two scientists claim to have discovered a mountain range shaped like a sleeping Buddha in the northern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, reports Xinhua.