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The ‘Losar’ Tibetan new year period, last week, witnessed more arrests, protests, and repression in Tibetan areas. Tibetans in Kardze carried out extensive pamphleteering protests for the first five days of Losar

China must urgently implement sweeping economic and political reforms, including the reduction of the dominance of state companies and promotion of free market if it is to maintain growth of even half the level it managed

The thirteen Tibetan students, including two girls, arrested last week for carrying out a demonstration outside the United Nations office in Kathmandu, began a hunger fast Monday to further highlight their demands

Carrying signs and chanting “Tibet will be free,” Tibetans and supporters from San Francisco and Los Angeles trailed China’s future President Xi Jinping at every location he visited during his first official visit to the United States.

India has sharply reacted to statements from Beijing opposing the Indian Defence Minister's visit to Arunachal Pradesh. India asserted that it "will not tolerate external interference in India's territorial affairs"

On the fifth day of the Tibetan new year, February 26, a young Tibetan reportedly torched himself to death, calling for the return of the Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama from exile.

Reporters Without Borders has expressed “alarm” at the total media blackout imposed by Chinese authorities in Tibet, preventing all media coverage of the ongoing wave of self-immolations and mass demonstrations

A group of young Tibetans took out a street protest outside the United Nations office in Nepal’s capital city Kathmandu Friday appealing for intervention in the ongoing crisis in Tibet.

A provincial Communist Party chief visited the besieged Kirti monastery and the adjoining restive regions of eastern Tibet that have been at the centre of the fiery wave of self-immolations.

The New York Police Department has ordered the removal of the tent hosting the three Tibetan hunger strikers in front of the United Nations headquarters. Tsewang Rigzin, president of the Tibetan Youth Congress, the largest pro-independence group in exile and organisers