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The first ‘Tibet Film Festival 2015’ is organized by Washington based nongovernmental organization Machik that works to develop new opportunities for education, self reliance and innovation inside Tibet. The festival, featuring

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has criticized the Chinese government over strict directives issued to the media regarding reporting of the 70th Anniversary of the end of World War I

A Tibetan woman has died after setting herself on fire in protest against Chinese rule late Thursday night in Sankhog township in Sangchu County, Kanlho Tibet Autonomous Prefecture, reported the

A Tibetan man serving a ten year sentence in a Chinese prison in Xining is reported to be in extremely poor physical condition. He was among those Tibetans who had a scuffle with the Chinese policemen trying to take the charred body of Lobsang away in a waiting police

In what comes as a major blow to the Tibetan exile government’s efforts of reestablishing dialogue with Beijing, China has said that the “Middle Way proposed by the Dalai Lama group” will never be accepte

At least ten Tibetans have been arrested Wednesday following an agitation by around hundred Tibetans outside a Chinese government office in Nangchen County (incorporated into Qinghai province) in Kham, accord

In yet another onslaught at monastic population growth, the Chinese authorities have ordered Serthar Larung Gar Buddhist Institute in Serta County, Sichuan Province, to put a check on its enrollm

She was arrested shortly after she commenced the lone protest and taken away. A source was quoted as saying, “She shouted in protest for some time before a group of police arrived at the scene and took her aw

The Chinese authorities in Phenpo Lhundup County have imposed restrictions on the celebration of Reting Monastery’s Phaphong Thangkor festival, a religious ceremony which happens every 12 years in the seventh

The Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama has reiterated his position of being “totally retired” from politics. In a brief interview published August 21, 2015 with Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, an affiliate o