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"Crossing the Line: China’s Railway to Lhasa, Tibet," a new in-depth report from the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), finds that the railway China is constructing across the Tibetan Plateau to Lhasa is being built mainly

A high-altitude railway China is building to Tibet is a ruse to increase control over the region, and does not even enjoy the support of Beijing's Ministry of Railways, US activists said here.

This week, the popular Tibetan music and dance group, Chaksampa, completed its 2003 Canadian tour with performances in both Toronto and Montreal. With a repertoire of old and new songs, Chaksampa delighted Canadians and Tibetans alike

The passive resistance of Tibet's Buddhists has caused China's communist regime headaches, Hamish McDonald reports from Lhasa. On benches topped with thick floral carpets, shaven-headed teenage boys in yellow woollen cloaks chant Buddhist sutras

There is an urgent need to act on the issue of Tibet, which has strategic importance for India. Recent border disputes between India and China show the fragile relation between the two nations.

With the Dalai Lama set to embark on a high-profile trip to the US this week, the Chinese official media on Monday urged Washington not to damage bilateral ties while asking the exiled Tibetan religious leader to shun his pro-independence

He is the leader of but one movement within a vast world religion that most Americans know little about. He presides over one of many peoples around the globe who seek freedom from an oppressive force.

A planned visit by the Dalai Lama to the United States could damage relations between Washington and Beijing, China's state-controlled media warned Monday, dismissing the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism as a "political plotter."

In a remarkable amendment to the policies of the last decades, a government work report to the People's Congress of the Lhasa prefecture of April 2003, which was recently received by TIN, encourages migration from the rural areas of the prefecture to Lhasa city.

Hahn Kwang-ho’s Buddhist thangkas will be shown at the British Museum. It started with a sightseeing trip to Insa-dong. Then it grew into a hobby, visiting art dealers when time permitted.