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The wife of missing Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng fought back tears Wednesday as she spoke of her children's pain living without their father, who disappeared in April 2010

Geng He (L), the wife of missing Chinese dissident Gao Zhisheng, participates in a press conference to discuss Chinese human rights records on the eve of President Hu Jintao's White House arrival on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (AFP/Tim Sloan)

Before the sun rises Thursday in St. Paul, Jigme Ugen and other Minnesota Tibetans will board buses for the streets of Chicago, where they will join other Tibetans protesting the Chinese government and visiting Chinese President Hu

It was, unquestionably, the most important public moment of Hu Jintao's visit to the US so far. The moment President Hu Jintao was put on the spot about China's human rights record

When giant, human-shaped footprints were found stamped in rock at a construction site in Tibet in 1999, local residents celebrated what they believed to be the discovery of ancient traces left by the legendary figure King Gesar, the hero of

On Tibet, Obama said the United States supports dialogue between China and representatives of exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, and wants Beijing to respect the religious rights of the Tibe

News have emerged from Tibet that a Tibetan monk had hanged himself to death in his monastery quarter in Sog County in November 15, 2010, a Tibetan living here with contacts in the region told

The lawmakers cited China's treatment of Tibetans, Christians, members of the spiritual movement Falun Gong, democracy activists and Uighur Muslims as issues that Obama must bring up with Hu

Mr Obama will be hoping for an evening free of controversy as he returns the hospitality he was shown at a state dinner in Beijing on a visit in November 2009. That trip proved awkward however, with Beijing making it clear it was either unwilling or

China's President Hu Jintao landed in Washington for a summit that will help to define a new relationship between the world's longtime superpower and its rising Asia