Starting in March 2008, Tibetans across the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), Qinghai, Gansu, and Sichuan took to the streets to call for religious freedom and an end to oppressive political and social controls and...
In an interview with Himal Southasian, University of British Columbia historian Tsering Shakya...
As new Chinese surveillance technology spreads across the country and beyond, Sixth Tone’s...
At CNN, Katie Hunt reports that the Tibet Autonomous Region is closed to all foreign visitors and...
Despite optimism from the Dalai Lama about progress towards his goal of Tibetan autonomy within Xi...
A new report from California-based Internet security company FireEye says that a cyberespionage...
May 17 marked the 20-year anniversary of the disappearance of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the Tibetan...
In a two-part interview at The New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson talks to Tibetan writer...
48,000 Tibetans in India are eligible to vote for the first time this year following a rule change...
At Al Jazeera, Robert Barnett, the director of modern Tibetan studies at Columbia...
Tibetan exiles share the hardships and struggles they have encountered to establish a “national soccer team” without a recognized “nation”. From Radhika Oberoi at The New York Times: The Tibetan national...
At Foreign Policy, Jeffrey Bartholet talks to Thupten Ngodup, medium or kuten for the Nechung Oracle which is said to have warned the Dalai Lama to flee Tibet in 1959. They discuss the processes of selection and consultation,...
Harvard educated Dr. Lobsang Sangay was elected as the Tibetan government-in-exile’s equivalent of prime minister in 2011 — he was the second to be directly elected to this position, and the first to be head of the Central...
Nepal has long been “a mouse trapped between elephants”, with a historically close relationship with India and more recently growing links to China. As Beijing’s influence increases, some in the country’s...
After a Tibetan man set himself on fire in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu on Wednesday, exile and activist groups reported that the 100th self-immolation protest within Tibet had taken place in Ngaba on February 3rd. From...
Dharamsala-based Phayul.com reports that the 88th and 89th Tibetan self-immolations since 2009 took place on Wednesday and Thursday respectively, bringing the total for November to 27. Sources have identified the Tibetan man as...
Dharamsala-based Phayul.com reports the 25th self-immolation case this month and news of one of the five Tibetans who set fire to themselves on November 7th, on the eve of China’s 18th Party Congress. The man is said to...
Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the start of the 1962 Sino-Indian War on Saturday, The Economist visited the disputed region of Arunachal Pradesh over which it was fought. The area, sometimes known in China as “South...
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