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Chinese officials tried to defuse discontent following days of student protests in ethnically Tibetan areas, saying a plan to teach classes only in Mandarin Chinese was not aimed at wiping out Tibet's native tongue, state media reported Saturday.

Protests by Tibetan students over plans to elevate Chinese to the main language of instruction in western China schools spread Friday to Beijing, where students at a minority university staged a rare public demonstration

A group of Chinese dissidents plan to launch their own version of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks to expose central government secrets and promote democra

China refused to say on Thursday whether Premier Wen Jiabao will meet Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan at a regional summit this month, and a Beijing diplomat accused Tokyo's foreign minister of rekindling ill-will

The US and China are in "fundamental disagreement" over the case of jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, US Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday after raising it with top officials

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati presented His Holiness the Dalai Lama with its International Freedom Conductor Award on Wednesday

A two-day international symposium on "1913 Treaty between Mongolia and Tibet" was held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongol, from 13 - 14 October. The event was organised by the edit

The massive anti-government protests in Tibet’s Rebkong area on Tuesday has spread to other Tibetan areas in Qinghai province. Around 2000 Tibetan students took to the streets in Tsolho on Wednesday in protest against a government decis

Members of UW-Madison's Students for a Free Tibet and other local Free Tibet activists were asked to leave Madison's China Town Hall event Monday for allegedly disrupting a dis

In a videotaped acceptance speech, the 44-year-old Tibetan writer based in Beijing said that during anti-government protests in Tibet in 2008 which erupted in violence and led to a Chinese government crackdown she felt that if