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Authorities in the Chinese province of Sichuan plan to spend 5 billion yuan to settle 470,000 Tibetan herders in permanent houses, state media said, as part of efforts to promote the development of ethnic ...

Tibet's people are enduring the worst period of repression at the hands of China's regime since the Cultural Revolution more than three decades ago, according to the Dalai Lama's envoy in Europe.

BEIJING : An earthquake struck western China on Monday, a day after another leveled a village in Kyrgyzstan.

A total of 2,000 tents, 3,000 winter clothes and 3,000 quilts were distributed to earthquake-stricken areas in west China on Tuesday.

BISHKEK: Rescuers toiled yesterday in a remote mountain village close to Kyrgyzstan's border with China searching for survivors of a powerful earthquake that killed at least 74 people, including 41 children.

Two earthquakes jolted the capital of Tibet and surrounding areas, killing at least nine people and collapsing hundreds of houses, China's state news agency said early today.

A magnitude 6.6 earthquake shook Tibet on Monday, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damages, U.S. and Chinese seismologists said.

A pioneering Chinese company is to market pasteurised Tibetan yak milk in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, in the hope that it will become a new superfood in the world's most populous country.

Tourists pose for photos at the Potala Palace square in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, on Oct.

Reporters for the Guardian have been granted permission to visit Tibet six months after violent riots hit Lhasa, and have produced a video report on their visit: Six months after deadly protests against Chinese ...

Prime Minister Prachanda a.k.a. Pushpa Kamal Dahal has in the past forty days met the Chinese premier, Indias premier, secretary of the Bharitya Janata Party , addressed business leaders of the Conference of ...

Envoys of exiled Tibetan spiritual guru, the Dalai Lama, will hold parleys with the Chinese government again next month, Tibet's government-in-exile said Thursday.

Two senior officials in restive Tibet have been dismissed, six months after violent riots swept the Himalayan region, the semi-official China News Service reported on Saturday.

China issued a government report Thursday praising its rule over Tibet and accusing the Dalai Lama of wanting to restore a backward feudal system in the Himalayan region.

On the edge of Tibetan towns in this western province, special police officers carrying rifles stand guard behind checkpoints made of sandbags.

Editor's Note: Canadian writer and artist Lisa Carducci, who has make China her home, is calling on our readers to help 270 students enjoy the first warm winter of their lives.

Jigme, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, says he had just finished having a pair of shoes mended when four uniformed guards jumped from a white van and dragged him inside.

Suppressing his calls to a passing nun for help, they shoved a sack over his head and drove him to a guesthouse run by the local paramilitary People's Armed Police.

What followed, according to Jigme, was two months of interrogation and abuse over his suspected role in this spring's uprising against Chinese rule across Tibet and a broad swath of Tibetan-inhabited regions in western China.

Thubten Jigme Norbu, who has died aged 86, was the eldest brother of the Dalai Lama.

The disaffected lawyers have in recent days circulated petitions online, sent text messages and letters, and tried to mobilize their colleagues to urge the Beijing Lawyers' Association to hold free and fair ...

Craig Kielburger and Marc Kielburger, Special to the Vancouver Sun, Canada, Monday, September 08, 2008- Clad in brightly-coloured costumes, 56 children paraded through the Bird's Nest at last month's Olympic ...