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In a letter sent to a news website based in Brussels, the Dalai Lama has urged European Union (EU) foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton to press China on allowing a visit by EU diplomats to Tibet.

hinese Premier Wen Jaibao has postponed his much anticipated visit to Nepal sine die at the eleventh according to latest reports coming out of Nepal. Nepali Deputy Prime Minister Narayankaji Shrestha was told of the postponement

The World Organisation for Animal Health issued an alert on a reported outbreak of bird flu in a village in Tibet Monday. The Paris-based organisation cited a notification from China’s Ministry of Agriculture

Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama, currently on a three-day visit to the Czech Republic, met with former president Vaclav Havel and Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg over the weekend.

Twelve people have been confirmed dead and five others missing after a bus fell into a river in Chamdo, Tibet according to a report published by the Chinese state news agency Xinhua.

A rare video footage smuggled out from Tibet shows the alarming level of repression and heavy-handed police brutality that Tibetans suffer under China’s occupation.

Hundreds of Tibetans and foreigners gathered at Tsug-la Khang in Dharamshala, Saturday for a muted commemoration of the 22nd anniversary of the conferment of the Nobel Peace Prize on His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Hundreds of Tibetans and foreigners gathered at Tsug-la Khang in Dharamshala, Saturday for a muted commemoration of the 22nd anniversary of the conferment of the Nobel Peace Prize on His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Seventeen Tibetans under the banner of the Tibetan Youth Congress today stormed Hotel Maurya Sheraton in the Indian capital New Delhi where a visiting Chinese military delegation headed by General Ma Xiaotian was holding a meeting.

An agony that many Tibetan and Tibet supporters continue to suffer has now come to the fore. The TIME magazine has put the “Self-Immolation of Tibetan Monks” as the number one “underreported story” for the year 2011.