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China will complete by 2015 a $2 billion rail extension from Tibetan capital Lhasa to a monastery town that is the seat of the Panchen Lama, the second-most senior figure in Tibetan Buddhism, state media said on Wednesday

More than 230 Tibetan artistes have gathered in Phuntsokling Tibetan Settlement in Orissa to participate in the 16th Shoton Opera Festival. The weeklong opera festival was org

Tibetans held a prayer service here this morning to mourn the sudden accidental death of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s nephew.

US Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs Maria Otero has expressed concern with Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal about the problems faced by Tibetan refugees in Nepal

The United States on Sunday pledged USD 850,000 financial aid to Nepal to strengthen its security infrastructure, with the country still reeling under the impact of a decade-long Maoist-led insurgency that ended in 2006

Prime Minister of Tibet’s government in exile Prof Samdhong Rinpoche left Dharamsala Monday for a five-day visit to Europe

While children of their age are on vacation from December to March for winter breaks, two students of Tibetan Children’s village, Suja, are taking an unusual br

Norbu, 45, was struck and killed by a passing driver just before 7:30 this evening (Feb. 14) on State Road A1A in the Hammock, across the street from the Adult and Community Education buildi

China is set to extend its Tibet railway network into the strategically important Chumbi valley area, next to Sikkim and the Siliguri corridor. This was confirmed by a Chinese Railways Ministry map, put out last month, showing China’s “long term railway

15 Tibetans including 5 monks of Linka monastery were arrested by the Chinese police and several others injured in a crackdown on Tibetan protesters and Chinese security personnel in Tamo township, Shigatse Prefecture, reported the webs