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South African Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu urged his government on Sunday to grant the Dalai Lama a visa to attend Tutu's 80th birthday party, after it denied a visa request in 2009.

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will confer an honorary doctor of letters degree on His Holiness the Dalai Lama at its 24th convocation on 5 September, the university said.

Native Tibetans living in Kyegudo in eastern Tibet's Kham Province, who were devastated by a powerful earthquake in April last year, are losing their land to a large number Chinese migrants.

“It seems that China lacks will to resolve the Tibetan issue,” said His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Germany’s Hesse state, Wednesday. The Tibetan spiritual leader was addressing a group of scholars, journalists, and democracy advocates

The fifth Student’s Debate on Tibetan Cultural Studies began yesterday at the Sarah College for Higher Tibetan Studies, some 12 kms from Dharamshala. The four-day debate organised by the Sarah Working Committee of the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress (RTYC), Dharamshala

The largest pro-independence group in exile, the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), is meeting for its annual Working Committee Meeting in the picturesque hill station of Darjeeling, north-east India.

The Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama expressed his sadness over the self-immolation of a 29-year old Tibetan monk Tsewang Norbu.Speaking to reporters in Hamburg, Germany, the Dalai Lama said he was saddened

Joe Biden, the US vice president, on his last day in China, spoke out on human rights at the Sichuan University in Chengdu Sunday. Speaking to students in Chengdu, the same province where last Monday a Tibetan monk Tsewang Norbu

In an exclusive interview with Phayul, Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay today said that he will introduce changes in the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) including the induction of new members in the task force for the Sino-Tibet dialogue process.

The Chinese government has deployed around 200,000 security personnel in the troubled western region of Xinjiang following a new 'strike hard' campaign targeting Uyghurs in the region. China’s state news agency, Xinhua, reported on Beijing’s decision to implement a fresh ‘strike hard’ campaign