News

To police the internet China has employed what is regarded by many as the world's most formidable censorship machine. But as ever more Chinese get online, more and more users also understand what it means to jump over the government's "Great Firewall of China"

China has issued new rules on financial accounting at religious organisations, state media said Friday, in an apparent bid to increase its already tight controls on faith-based groups

Google could pull out of China as early as April 10, a Chinese newspaper reported today quoting an authorised agent for the search engine

China has derided last month’s meeting between US President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama saying, “Although he did meet with the U.S. President Feb. 18, 2010, it

Chinese authorities in Ditsa Township, Bayan (Ch: Hualong) have arrested three Tibetans for allegedly pasting pamphlets around a monastery and shut down a school run by

Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama pose for photo with with the Madhya Pradesh state Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan (left) and Governor Rameshvar Thakur after the Human Rights Commission function at the State Assembly in Bhopal, India, on Wednesday, March 17, 2008. (Photo: OHHDL/Tenzin Choejor)

Prime Minister of Tibet’s government in exile Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche Thursday said there was no scope left for further compromise in its dealing with China on the issue of Tibet

The capital of the restive Himalayan region that saw one of the deadliest protests against the Chinese government in 2008 has been turned into a virtual fortr

At least 20 teenagers were taken into custody by police in the remote western town of Hezuo on Wednesday, shortly after a larger group began a protest, a hotel clerk there said.

When the Dalai Lama went to the White House last month, the media focused on China's predictable outrage at President Obama's guest. Others were disturbed by images of garbage sacks that the White House had failed to