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A group of Taiwanese disciples today offered a long life prayer ceremony (Tib: tenshug) to the Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The main long life prayers and supplications to His Holiness were offered by Kyabje Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche

In reports coming out of Tibet, another Tibetan man has set himself on fire today in an apparent protest against China’s continued occupation of Tibet, taking Tibet’s self-immolation toll to 53.

The New York based media rights watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists has expressed concern over a missing Tibetan filmmaker after fears that he has been rearrested. Tibetan monk Golok Jigme Gyatso was first arrested in March 2008

Two Tibetans in eastern Tibet have been found “guilty” of “contacting with outsiders” and sentenced to several years in prison by a Chinese court. The Intermediate People's Court in Barkham sentenced a lay Tibetan, Thupdor, 25, to seven and a half years in prison and Lobsang Tashi, 26, a monk from

Tibet activists launched a new report today directed at the Chinese Communist Party’s leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping, challenging him to take “immediate steps towards a just and lasting resolution to the occupation of Tibet, or face greater international condemnation and domestic instability.”

Tibet activists in Dharamshala today issued a ‘Tibet Challenge’ to China’s leader in waiting Xi Jinping, confronting him to acknowledge four generations of Chinese leadership’s policy failures in Tibet.

Chinese courts in eastern Tibet have sentenced two teenaged Tibetan monks from the beleaguered Kirti Monastery in Ngaba to lengthy jail terms on currently unknown charges. The two have been identified as Lobsang Tsultrim 19 and Lobsang Jangchup 17.

One of the three Tibetan hunger strikers, who were forcibly admitted to hospital following deterioration in their health last month, has been readmitted to hospital after complications in his health resurfaced.

The Central Tibetan Administration today commemorated the 143rd birth anniversary of the father of the Indian nation Mahatma Gandhi at the Kashag Secretariat. Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay unfurled the Indian flag and later lighted a butter lamp

Indian Defence Minister A K Antony told reporters today that negotiations over long-standing disputes along the Indo-Tibetan border with China are in the “final stages.” "Everybody knows that border dispute is still unresolved, inspite of the fact that many rounds of negotiations have taken place.