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An exile Tibetan woman, right, looks on after she was stopped by police from proceeding to the venue of the Dalai Lama's birthday celebrations at a police barricade in Katmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Dozens of Tibetan exiles on their way to take part in a celebration for the Dalai Lama's birthday were detained by police on Tuesday in the Nepalese capital. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hailed the Dalai Lama on his 75th birthday Tuesday as "a man of peace and wisdom" and urged China to hold serious talks with him on his homeland of Tibet

A best-selling Chinese author and democracy advocate detained by security agents on Monday said Tuesday that the agents threatened to imprison him if he proceeded

Braving heavy and incessant rain, thousands of Tibetan exiles, joined by visiting tourists and members from local Indian and Nepali community, Tuesday attended celebrations marking His Holiness the 75th birthday here

Nepal police on Tuesday detained more than 100 Tibetan refugees who had gathered to celebrate the Dalai Lama's 75th birthday, but released them later in the

A YEAR ago today, China was convulsed by riots in its northwestern region of Xinjiang, as it had been a year earlier in Tibet

Chinese authorities in Zoege County, Sichuan Province, have arrested seven Tibetans on June 27 after minor scuffle among Tibetan residents stemming from argumen

Tibet's government-in-exile reacted angrily today to China's move to determine who will succeed the Dalai Lama when he dies.

China has installed about 40,000 high-definition surveillance cameras in the western region of Xinjiang days before the one-year anniversary of the country's worst ethnic violence in decades.

Exercising the ultimate political control, the Chinese Communist Party manufactured a 'holy' ceremony to appoint its own living god, writes John Garnaut from Shigatse in Tibet.