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The Prime Minister of Tibet's Government in Exile, Samdhong Rinpoche, Friday issued a congratulatory message to jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo on his winning the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize

The wife of Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo is being prevented from giving interviews to the media, her brother said in a statement Friday, expressing his joy at news of the award

Chinese web users are complaining about an apparent news blackout over a rare foreign interview given by Premier Wen Jiabao, in which he spoke about political reform and freedom of speech

A jailed Chinese dissident has won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize despite China's warning that it would harm bilateral ties between China and Norway. Liu Xiaobo, a jailed Chinese rights activist, has been declared the winner of the world's most coveted recognition for peace in the Norwegian

Dharamsala, October 8: China’s most famous dissident, jailed 54-year-old writer Liu Xiaobo has won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.

ARCHBISHOP Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Laureate and constant thorn in the side of white and black governments alike, sails off into retirement today pledging to keep out of the spotlight from now on - well, almost

On March 14, 2008, in Tibet, protests by the Tibetan people in Lhasa were met with violence and gunfire from Chinese police and troops. An unknown number of Tibetans died that day and in the suppression that followed

The editor of a U.S.-based Chinese-language pro-democracy website said Thursday the site was brought down by hackers, linking the cyberattack to the nomination of a prominent Chinese dissident for the Nobel Peace Prize

The Lhasa Intermediate People’s Court has sentenced a Tibetan monk to life imprisonment and another to 20 years in jail in June this year, the Tibetan Centre for Human

Minutes after I entered the settlement, a Tibetan monk driving a tractor crossed my path. Wearing a trucker's cap that matched his crimson robes, he steered the tractor past lush corn fields dotted with twirling windmills