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The US has a responsibility to stand up for the rights and dignity of the people of Tibet, an influential American Congresswoman has said, while seeking a "respectful solution" to the issue

"If (the parliamentarians) come tomorrow and the day after tomorrow then I will tell them: No, my decision as far as an institution as a head of both temporal and spiritual, that must end, that is outdated."

Hundreds of Tibetans, including monks, and sypathisers on Thursday took part in street demonstrations in solidarity with a Tibetan monk protester who burned himself to death in Ngaba (Ch: Aba) County in Tibet’s Amdo province.

Sources have confirmed the passing away of Phuntsok, the Tibetan monk of Ngaba Kirti monastery who set himself ablaze yesterday. Phuntsok breathed his last around 3AM (Beijing time) Thursday at a hospital. The hospital authorities refused to see Phuntsok

Seventeen demonstrators stood in the pouring rain at 10th and Race Streets last Thursday, ignoring drenched clothes and soggy shoes to publicly renew demands for Tibetan freedom

A Tibetan Buddhist monastery in southwestern China remained sealed off by police on Thursday, local residents said, after a young monk set himself on fire and died, triggering protests there

A Tibetan monk of Kirti monastery in Amdo Ngaba is feared dead after he set himself ablaze at a market near his monastery, according to a reliable source with contacts in the re

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has said that China needs to learn from India about democracy which brings in harmony among people of different languages and ethnic backgrounds

Even as the Dalai Lama informed Tibet’s parliament in exile of his firm decision to formally devolve his political authority, the parliament on Tuesday found itself not in a position to come to a final conclusion

A prominent Chinese dissident has accused Chinese president Hu Jintao of masterminding the death of the 10th Panchen Lama who passed away in January 1989 at the age of