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The drive-by shooting of a Falun Gong practitioner in South Africa on Mondaymarks a new level of violence and recklessness in former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin's worldwide persecution of Falun Gong.

The Dalai Lama will speak at Sunrise's Office Depot Center on Sept. 19, changing the site from the University of Miami, organizers announced on Thursday.

So much for our 10-year-old rights-based, freedom-loving South African democracy: this week, during his official visit to our country, China's Vice-President Zeng Qinghong praised the South African government for blocking a recent United Nations debate on China's human rights record.

A new Uighur exile leader says he hopes his message of non-violent resistance to Chinese rule in his homeland, in the far northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang, will unite his fellow Uighurs, both inside and outside the country.

The 14th Dalai Lama, also called Tenzing Gyatso, is likely to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh this week, keeping up his tradition of getting to know India’s senior leadership ever since he fled from Lhasa 45 years ago.

Australia's ambassador to China today begins a rare visit to Tibet in which he will match a big new aid project with some political messages that may make Chinese authorities there less comfortable.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao today marked the 50th anniversary of his nation's "foreign policy of peace" with a call for greater democracy on the world stage and less "hegemony and power politics" in international diplomacy.

Australia's ambassador to China this week begins a visit to one of its most disputed territories. Hamish McDonald reports from Lhasa, Tibet.

Lhagyari Namgyal Wangchuk, descendant of Tibet’s 33rd King Songtsen Gampo, was today enthroned at a coronation ceremony in the presence of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

A renowned international Chinese writer Xinran Xue’s latest book Sky burial is an account based on a life of a Chinese woman who spent 34 years in Tibet and became a Tibetan.