News

The Bush administration said China's threat to halt negotiations over human rights issues is virtually meaningless because China hasn't complied with its past commitments.

An avalanche has buried 4,000 acres of grassland in northwestern China's Qinghai province, trapping 175 Tibetan families and destroying their grazing lands.

Though the Qinghai-Tibet railway is still under construction, the first locomotive in Tibet started running on the "Roof of the World" Tuesday, Xinhua reports.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama today blessed the 10th annual opera festival (Shoton) as the chief guest at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (TIPA), the only organisation under the Tibetan administration founded with a mission to preserve the unique tradition of Tibetan performing arts.

China suspended its human rights dialogue with the United States Tuesday, saying it had no alternative after Washington proposed a resolution to the United Nations to condemn Beijing's record.

China protested a U.S. resolution prepared for a United Nations commission that criticizes the Chinese government for ``backsliding'' on human rights.

Free Tibet Campaign welcomes today's announcement by the United States that it plans to introduce a resolution critical of China at the 60th United Nations Commission for Human Rights (UNCHR).

U.S. State Department officials notified the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) this morning that the United States will introduce a resolution critical of China's human rights record at the 60th session of the U.N. Human Rights Commission, which is currently meeting in Geneva.

The Chinese government routinely abuses national laws and international standards in the course of executing thousands of people each year, says a new report by Amnesty International.

Ancient healing techniques from across the world would come together in the hills of Sikkim this March. The Sikkim chapter of the Holistic Health Promotion and Allied Education Foundation’s will host the next World Health Congress in Gangtok on 27 March.