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The Dalai Lama is a lot more playful than your average Harvard professor, which is one reason his appearance at a Harvard psychology conference on Friday was so enterta

For the family of Gao Zhisheng, a maverick lawyer under house arrest for years after confronting the Communist Party head-on, security was so tight that police sometimes sat in the bedroom of their Beijing apartment,

The authorities in Gong'an county had told civil servants and teachers to smoke 230,000 packs of the locally-made Hubei brand each year. Those who did not smoke enough or used brands from other provinces or overseas faced being fined or

The commission said Washington should include concerns about China's religious freedoms in its bilateral discussions at the highest level and continue to push to be allowed to set up consulates in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, and

China's Foreign Ministry on Monday rejected accusations by President Barack Obama that China is among nations that regularly harass and detain journalists

Concerned by reports that Dalai Lama could be made honorary citizen of Paris during his planned visit to France next month, Chinese state media Tuesday reported that such a move would adversely affect

The Tibetan community of Chicago has been on a chain protest at the Chinese Consulate since the 20th birthday of the 11th Panchen Lama Gendun Choekyi Nyima. The chain

Nepal's Maoist Prime Minister Prachanda resigned on Monday, plunging the country into a major political crisis triggered by a stand-off between his ex-rebels and the

The parents of children killed in last May’s earthquake in China have been routinely detained and harassed when attempting to investigate suspicions of shoddy building standards, according

During his address to the Tibetans living in New York and New Jersey areas, the Dalai Lama took the opportunity to send a message to people inside Tibet not