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The Dalai Lama closed the opening session of the 2009 Vancouver Peace Summit with a call for a global promotion of compassion, and an increased emphasis on the promotion of women to positions of influence

The senior envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari said US president Barack Obama will meet His Holiness after Obama's return from China. The US delegation who visited Dharamshala recently officially relayed the

China said it had found gas hydrates on the Tibetan Plateau worth 35 billion tons of oil in energy. Before that gas hydrates had been discovered on land only in Canada and the United States. China will be able to harvest and use

India is spoken of as China's top enemy, a British newspaper has said in a report on the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic. "Curiously, the enemy most often spoken of is India. The censors permit alarmingly frank discussion

With no fanfare or cheering followers, the Dalai Lama stepped off a plane at Vancouver International Airport Saturday to begin a four-day visit to B.C. While his arrival was low key, his public events will likely be another story

The government said Kadeer’s visit would harm Taiwan's national interests, citing terrorist links. "We have found out that Rebiya's World Uyghur Congress is related

In a new video interview from Tibet released Friday, Tibetans say there was more freedom and happiness in old Tibet prior to China’s rule and blame Communist China of causing unprecedented misery to the people of Tibet during

Taiwan's pro-independence opposition said Friday it plans to show more films about Tibet and Xinjiang to counter China's alleged boycott of the island's number two city over a controversial biopic

More than 200 Tibetans took to the streets of Pittsburgh, the venue for the G20 Summit, yesterday to protest Chinese President Hu Jin

Tibet's tourism administration on Thursday denied reports that foreigners had been barred from the region amid a security crackdown for China's National Day on October 1