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One of Tibet’s key rivers Yarlung Tsangpo, the headwaters of the Brahmaputra river has been blocked by a massive landslide causing a barrier-lake to form. The local Chinese emergency response bureau has said there is eminent danger that the blockage could give way to flashfloods in the lower re

Tibetan, Southern Mongolian and Uyghur protestors gathered in numbers on the opening day of the 12th ASEM (Asian and European Meeting) on Wednesday in Bru

Local Tibetans in Choeje village in the Tsolho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture’s Chabcha county, Qinghai province were attacked and beaten by Chinese workers for protesting aga

National Democratic Party of Tibet today said that despite the electoral reform that bars NGOs including regional and religious groups from endorsing presidential and parliamentary candidates in future elections, the party will continue to work and lobby

The massive landslide on the banks of the Drichu river (ch. Yangtse) near Chamdo city in Jomda county last week in occupied Tibet’s Sichuan Province is linked with heavy mi

Tibetan refugees in the Indian state of Odisha are faced with a rude awakening in the aftermath of the destructive cyclone ‘Titli’ that made land fall in Gajapati district on Thursday where the Tibetan settlement is located. While days ago Tibetans there were face

In a grand gesture, the exile Tibetan community based in the state of Himachal Pradesh, along with the Central Tibetan Administration and Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai La

The 9th edition of the Tibet Film Festival was opened simultaneously in Zurich, Switzerland and here in Dharamshala, the virtual capital of the Tibetan diaspora, over the wee

China is set to begin work on a new railway line in occupied-Tibet, dubbed the “world’s most challenging” railway line. President Xi Jinping on Wednesday announced the “full l

In a move seen as truce between opposing claimants of the Karmapa title, the two main claimants of the title to the foremost religious head of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibet