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The Chinese authorities confirm on Tuesday that the Germany delegation participating at the 13th Human Rights Dialogue in Beijing will visit ‘so called’ Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). The time and the duration of

The fuel blockade crisis in Nepal that began in September 2015 soon after the new Nepal government adopted a revised constitution has intensified the shortages of basic supplies such as fuel, medicine and other

The Beijing leadership on Nov.20 oversaw an event commemorating the 100th birthday of the reformist and liberal communist leader Hu Yaobang who among many of his reformist body of work sought to uplift Tibet and other minorities, even to the extent of encouraging a sort of autonomy with Chinese characteri

The Canada Tibetan Committee (CTC) on Monday urged Catherine McKenna, Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change, to include climate action in Tibet as core concern during the upcoming glob

The leading rights group Human Rights Watch has called for an independent probe into the Chinese government’s raid that killed 28 members of a group it claimed was responsible for the coalmine atta

Kiren Rijiju, Minister of State for Home Affairs, Government of India, has said that ‘India should not change its political path when it comes to Tibet’. Rijiju was speaking at the Guru Padma Sambhava maha puja

The 2015 edition of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) concluded yesterday (Nov.18-22) at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with security issues, particularly the South China sea dispute and global ter

The Capital city of Tibet, Lhasa, was kept under a lockdown in the late October and early November in the run up to the visit of US Congressional Delegation to Tibet led by House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi,

"The Chinese government prohibits torture and prosecutes any personnel or state organs for torture activities," Li Wensheng, Deputy Director-General of the legal affairs department in the ministry of public security, tol

The Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) in their environment change evaluation report claimed that the Tibetan plateau is one of the world’s cleanest regions despite reports of excessive mining, deforestation and nuclear wast