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Jigme Norbu and Tenzin Jamyang, two activists who had been walking for three weeks through the American Midwest to raise awareness for Tibet, arrived in Minnesota on Monday to a warm and cheering welcome from the local community

His Holiness the Dalai Lama will visit Padder in the mountainous district of Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir this week to address a religious congregation, inaugurate a Buddhist centre and conduct prayers

Guohang accompanied by the Military Attaché of his Embassy in Kathmandu rushed to the district of Dolakha when they were informed that some ten Tibetans have

A man firing a small automatic weapon burst into a court office in central China on Tuesday, fatally shooting three judges and wounding three other people before killing himself, an official said

Hotels in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, are being forced to install electronic surveillance equipment amid an ongoing security clampdown in the city, industry sources said

Lotus Productions and Berlin-based Integral Films will co-produce a 3D animated docu-fiction on the Dalai Lama that French director Jan Kounen will helm, according to a report by

China has released from detention a Tibetan student of National Minorities’ University in Lanzhou on May 8, according to Shingsa Rinpoche, a Tibetan lama

The first Tibetan community FM radio ‘Tashi Delek 90.4 FM’ was launched today at Upper Tibetan Children's Village school by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

A leading Tibetan collector of antiquities has been in detention nearly five months, his lawyer said Tuesday, and faces charges dating back over a decade that critics fear may be politically motivated

His Holiness the Dalai Lama presides over a special prayer service to observe the customary seventh week or 49th day of the thousands of Tibetans who died in the devastating April 14 earthquake in Kyegudo at the Tsuglagkhang in Dharamsala, India, Tuesday, June 1, 2010. Also in the photo is His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa. Under the direction of the Central Tibetan Administration, similar prayer congregations are being simultaneously held in all the Tibetan communities around the world. China on Monday put the final death toll from the Keygudo earthquake at 2698. Unconfirmed sources in qauke-hit, however, say as many times the official figures had died in the disaster. Tuesday’s prayer services mark the end of weekly customary prayer services conducted by Tibetan Buddhists for seven consecutive weeks after the death of a person. (Photo credit: Tibet.net)