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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

Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo tops speculation for the Nobel Peace Prize _ one betting site has already declared him the winner _ though some experts expect a more low-key choice

A Tibetan man stuck in Southern Indian port city of Chennai since September 20 as Indian Customs officials withheld his motorbike due to “incomplete” documents is all smiles again after he, with help from a Tibetan family in Canada,

Koro belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language family, which is composed of a group of about 400 languages spoken primarily in east, central, south and southeast Asia and includes Tibetan

China might well be poised to have its first-ever Nobel Peace Prize winner this week — if bookies are to be believed — an outcome that would make history, give a huge boost to democracy advocates inside China, and enrage Beijing’s

Wen Jiabao, the Chinese prime minister, has promised that China will carry out political reform and acknowledged that the need for democracy and freedom in China is "irresistible".

The Chinese and Japanese prime ministers have held an impromptu meeting at a conference in Europe amid a bitter offshore territorial dispute.

A Tibetan man from Tibet’s Ngaba region has been arrested from Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, on October 1, 2010, said Tsering, a monk at the Kirti monastery ba