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After meetings with Chinese officials in Beijing, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told reporters that the January execution of Lobsang Dhondup was among recent "setbacks" in the U.S.-China human rights dialogue, according to a February 24 BBC report.

Thousands of firefighters struggled Friday to contain a wind-whipped forest fire in Tibet that has been burning for more than two days, the Chinese government said.

Two Western Student Association senators apologized Sunday for the portion of Resolution No. 6 which urged Western Michigan University"s administration to remove the Chinese flag hanging in the promenade on main campus

The multiphonic singers of Tibet's Drepung Loseling Monastery, whose sellout performances in Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center received national acclaim, will perform "Sacred Music Sacred Dance for World Healing" Thursday, Feb. 27

A devastating earthquake shook western China Monday, killing at least 257 people, injuring more than 1,000 and flattening homes, schools and other buildings near the Silk Road oasis of Kashgar.

Beginning March this year when Tibetans all over are celebrating the festive season of Losar (Tibetan New Year), Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) in conjunction with Bharat-Tibbat Sahyog Manch (BTSM) will be carrying out a marathon ten-day

Tradition and change blend in Litang. A man in a fox-fur hat rides a motorcycle bearing a photo of the late Panchen Lama, a spiritual leader. (Erik Eckholm/The New York Times)

It is dawn at the Litang Monastery, and Tibetan spirituality seems to be alive and well, if slightly disheveled. As a brilliant Venus fades in the rising sun, the 300 monks straggle to their prayer stations, chants mingling with trumpet calls in the thin crisp air.

A business dispute between ethnic Tibetans and Chinese Moslems in China's western Qinghai Province flared into large-scale communal violence, resulting in hundreds of injuries and massive property damage, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

A business dispute sparked clashes between ethnic Tibetans and Chinese Muslims in western China, resulting in hundreds of injuries and widespread property damage, a U.S.-financed broadcaster reported Sunday.