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Campaigners opposed to the inclusion of a Chinese Army band in this year’s Tattoo are to stage their own alternative event. The one-day Free Tibet music festival, in protest at the appearance of the People’s Liberation Army band, will feature ten bands, ten DJs and ten hours of music on August 1.

Four Tibetan monks shared part of their culture with Cincinnatians this week as they constructed a sand mandala in the atrium of the Main Library, downtown

The reopening of a Sino-Indian trade route through Nathu-La Pass in Sikkim has been deferred by the new Indian government, apparently over security concerns. The excitement that was building up among traders in Sikkim after India and China agreed to reopen the trade route last year has subsided.

A five-member Tibetan exile delegation has cancelled a planned visit to the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) after Chinese authorities denied a request for them to visit their hometowns, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

It might have opened the window of holding a dialogue with him, but Beijing refuses to budge from its often stated position that the Dalai Lama is not welcome here unless he accepts that Tibet and Taiwan are inalienable parts of China.

As India and China prepare to hold their crucial, third round of talks between the two politically-appointed Special Representatives on the border issue on July 26-27 in New Delhi, Beijing has admitted that ‘‘the process of settling the border will not be smooth’’

A reported meeting of Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi has not gone well with China, which today urged New Delhi to refrain from doing things that would hurt the "good momentum" witnessed in bilateral ties recently.

The Dharamsala-based Tibetan Election Commission today announced the result of the bye-election for the legislative body in exile, declaring Mr. Karma Yeshi winner from the U-Tsang constituency, and Mr. Chabdak Lhamo Kyab and Mr. Tenzin Gonpo from the Amdo constituency.

Floods are threatening wide tracts of the remote Tibetan plateau after rainfall in some areas hit record highs, China's Xinhua news agency says.

Chinese hackers have been blamed for a wave of attacks on South Korean government computers, the latest in a series of internet security breaches in which China is alleged to have been involved.