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Labour's Chinese MP, Raymond Huo, is facing fierce criticism for defending Chinese rule over Tibet on a Labour Party website. Criticising Green Party co-leader Russel Norman's Tibetan flag protest in front of visiting Chinese

China today sentenced brother of recently jailed Tibetan environmentalist Karma Samdrup to five years in prison and three years’ deprivation of political rights for “inciting t

The Special Envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama Lodi Gyari has announced his refusal to contest in the election of the exile Tibetan Prime Minist

An award-winning Tibetan environmentalist goes on trial tomorrow (Saturday), the third of three brothers to face jail after clashing with Chinese Communist Party

The Dalai Lama's 75th birthday on July 6 marks a bittersweet milestone. The anniversary is cause for celebration that his message of peace has become so widespread, yet it is also illustrative of his mortal frailty as China's power

Outward normality has returned to the thin air of Tibet's capital Lhasa. But, more than two years after ethnic violence erupted there, residents still talk of fear

The Xinhua News Agency, China’s dominant news service and the propaganda arm of the Communist Party, introduced a 24-hour English-language news channel and is prep

Eventually their bodies begin to produce more oxygen-carrying hemoglobin and they adapt to the environment. But Tibetans, because of their genetic variations, are able to function with lower levels of hemoglobin

The young monk once again found himself in front of microphones and television cameras. It was much the same as on March 28, 2008, when the monk, Norgye, and dozens of fellow monks barged into a temple chamber where foreign journalists were being escorted around by Chinese government officials

China on Thursday opened its fourth civilian airport in the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). The new airport named Gunsa Airport, in Ngari Prefecture, became operational with the landing of a passenger plane of