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China has put a ban on an annual religious congregation of Tibetan monks in Barkham County, and warned monks of arrest or closure of the host monastery if the

Tashi Lhunpo Monastery and the Central Association of His Holiness the Panchen Lama on Sunday organized an exhibition of rare photographs and age-old thangka paintings

The harsh sentence handed down on Friday to Liu Xiaobo, one of China’s most prominent campaigners for democracy and human rights, prompted strong rebukes in the US and Europe, but it also raised fresh questions over whether the West has much leverage

The exiled Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama inaugurated a three-day Tibetan General Conference on Education, the largest meet up on education in the exile Tibetan community, here on Sunday.

Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal arrived in Beijing today on a six-day visit to China at the invitation of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. This is Nepal’s fir

The fifth annual Tibetan Women's Leadership Program (TWLP) commenced today at Bangalore. Organized by Tibetan Women's Association (TWA), 27 young female partici

A supporter of one of China's most prominent dissidents, Liu Xiaobo, is pulled away from journalists outside the courthouse where Liu is on trial in Beijing December 25, 2009. China's most prominent dissident, Liu, who turns 54 on Monday and a veteran of the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy protests, was sentenced on Friday to 11 years in prison on charges of "incitement to subvert state power", his lawyer said. Liu was a main author of the Charter 08 manifesto which called for sweeping political reforms. He has been in custody since a few days before Charter 08 was launched online on Dec. 10, 2008, to mark the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.(REUTERS/David Gray)

China's communist party leaders appear to be sending a message to anyone else who might want to challenge their total grip on power: don't. Chinese people have been given many freedoms since reforms were first begun 30 years ago but