The Latest Breaking News from Tibet

On August 5, Sheikh Hasina fled Dhaka and landed at Ghaziabad’s Hindon airbase after her ouster as prime minister of Bangladesh. Dramatic as it was, she was not the first high-profile political leader from India’s neighbourhood to seek safe haven. In 1959, India suffered consequences with China over the arrival…

Peter van Ham has been documenting the site of the Tabo monastery for 30 years, and thanks to Phase One it's now presented in even higher resolution

Chinese state-sponsored hackers target Tibetan websites with malware for surveillance, raising tensions in the region.

A hacking group that is believed to be Chinese state-sponsored has compromised two websites with ties to the Tibetan community in an attack meant to install malware on users’ computers

Physiological traits that help Tibetan women survive at high altitudes are being selected for within the population, meaning they may be becoming more common, new research hints.

Australia issued a joint statement with 14 other countries at UN urging China to uphold human rights in Xinjiang and Tibet

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A record number of climbers are gathered in Tibet to complete mountaineering's pinnacle achievement, summiting the world's tallest 14 peaks.

Tibetans in India protest China's human rights abuses in Tibet, calling for international support.

Dozens of Tibetans living in India protested outside China’s embassy against the human rights situation in their homeland, which China annexed in 1951

Mount Everest (also known as Chomolungma or Sagarmāthā) is famously the highest mountain in the Himalayas and indeed on Earth. But why?