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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.

A Lhasa official made a rare admission of the arrest of two Tibetans on ‘splittist’ offences this week, according to a report by Associated Press on 27 August. Vice Mayor of the city Dargye told reporters on an official press trip to the

Spiritual leader in exile arrives this week to receive honorary degree at USF. They look like plump Chinese potstickers -- but don't call them "Chinese" -- ever. The 5,000 or so, fluffy, steamed pastries -- stuffed with savory meat

Larry Gerstein, a Ball State University professor, is the co-founder of the International Tibet Independence Movement. (Kurt Hostetler )

A Ball State University professor will join a host of international figures, including the Dalai Lama and boxing legend Muhammad Ali, at an event in Bloomington next week.