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His Holiness the Dalai Lama is greeted by local Tibetans and supporters upon his arrival at the Deer Park Buddhist Centre in Madison, Wisconsin on May 13, 2013. The Dalai Lama is scheduled to give a teaching on Je Tsongkhapa's Praise to Dependent Origination (tendrel toepa) at the Alliant Energy Center tomorrow. (Phayul photo/Tenzin Dasel)

Beijing-based Tibetan writer Woeser has made a desperate appeal to save the ancient Tibetan capital city Lhasa from what she calls “frightful ‘modernisation,’” constituting “an unpardonable and incalcuable crime against the ancient city

A global meet of youth leaders blamed China for the ongoing wave of self-immolations in Tibet and called on Beijing to allow international fact-finding delegations to visit Tibetan areas. Around 130 delegates, representing over 60 countries, passed a hard-hitting resolution on Tibet

A four-member French senate delegation, representing the country’s major political groups, are currently on a week-long visit to the exile Tibetan headquarters of Dharamshala. The delegation, led by Senator Jean-Francois Humbert, President of the Tibet Group

More than two months after Tibetan self-immolator Phagmo Dhondup set himself on fire, details of a conversation he had with a friend before he set himself on fire, has come out. “Over a hundred Tibetans in Tibet have set themselves on fire. They are the true martyrs of Tibet.

Exiled Tibetan parliamentarians met with senior leaders of the Indian state of Sikkim, which shares its borders with Tibet, as part of a nation-wide lobbying campaign to highlight the ongoing crisis inside Tibet. The three-member Tibetan Parliamentary delegation

Chinese authorities have released a jailed Tibetan monk of the restive Nyatso Zilkar Monastery in Tridu, eastern Tibet, before the expiration of his prison term due to “medical emergency.” Sonam Yingyen, 44, was released “on an unknown date last month

Refusing to bow down to pressure from China, the United Kingdom has made it clear that the country will make its own decision on who they meet. This comes after Beijing demanded a public apology from the UK following Prime Minister David Cameron’s meeting with the Dalai Lama last year.

The United States has for the first time directly accused China’s military of cyberespionage in a report published by the Pentagon on Monday. The Pentagon has charged China’s military of attacking American government computer systems and defense contractors

Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama receiving an Honourary Degree Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Maryland on May 7, 2013. The Dalai Lama delivered the annual Anwar Sadat Lecture for Peace to an audience of 15,000 people at the University. (Phayul photo)