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India and China are at loggerheads in their border talks over Beijing’s claim on Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh as its territory. The negotiations between the two “emerging powers” are stuck on this since 2007 with not much hope for

A closed hearing in Chengdu Wuhou District Court yesterday on the case of Sichuan rights activist and founder of Tianwang Human Rights Center, Huang Qi,

Mao thought the error - just after the one-year anniversary of a crackdown on Tibetan protesters in China - was too suspicious to be coincidental, so he reported it on a new

The Dalai Lama said Tuesday that an estimated 4,000 people who were imprisoned during anti-Chinese riots in Tibet last year remain in custody, and he called

The 6th Annual Asian Festival took place in Reston, Virginia on August 1 & 2, 2009. Over 54,000 people attended the two-day festival where 16 Asian countries

His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived Monday afternoon in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he is expected to draw more than 12,000 people at a skating rink in Malley

Following the guidance of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to document personal stories of Tibetan elders the Tibet Oral History Project (TOHP) has posted 25 oral records of the last generation Tibetans to live in a free, unoccupied Tibet on its

The annual 5 day summer camp for Tibetan children and teenagers in the UK was held from Monday the 27th July to Friday the 31st July, 2009. This was the third camp

A third Tibetan has died of pneumonic plague that already had killed 2 persons in Tsegorthang village (Ch:Ziketan) in Qinghai since July 30, according to

Exiled Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama signs the Golden Book of the western German town of Marburg on August 3, 2009. The University of Marburg on Monday awarded the Dalai Lama with an honorary doctorate of the foreign-language philology department. The department,which includes the studies of India and Tibet, gave the Nobel Peace Prize award winner the doctorate for his scholarly work that includes several publications in which he “depicted the nature of Tibetan Buddhism in an authentic way that still remained accessible to the general public.” The university reportedly announced its intention to honour the Dalai Lama in 2006. (Photo: Thomas Lohnes/AFP/Getty Images)