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Exclusive: China appears to have expanded use of high-security prisons as tool of repression in Tibet, researchers say

Last week, Ms. Zeya attended birthday celebrations for the Dalai Lama’s 88th birthday, organised by the “Office of Tibet in Washington” as well. Read more on The Hindu

Tibet was communist China’s first conquest and now, Tibetans are working to tell the story of how they resisted Beijing.

Birthday celebration held in India’s Dharamsala where the Dalai Lama has lived in exile for decades after fleeing Tibet.

The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, is celebrating his 88th birthday at his hillside Indian headquarters in Dharamsala

Three years after the violent clash between Indian and Chinese forces in Galwan followed by tanks facing each other around the Pangong Tso — a lake spanning eastern Ladakh and western Tibet — there is hectic activity in the area from both sides. While China is rushing to complete a…

335-foot-tall tree found in region with one of the highest height and distribution density of giant trees

Tibetan leader Penpa Tsering says the situation there resembles George Orwell's 1984 where citizens have been surveilled and culture has been suppressed.

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From its source in Tibet, the Brahmaputra river flows through northeast India to Bangladesh, merging there with its equally mighty sister, the Ganges, and draining into the Bay of Bengal. A cruise along its Indian stretch on the “elegant” 18-cabin river boat Charaidew II is a delight, says Sophy Roberts…

In China, a group of atheists (the Chinese Communist Party) has long dictated how the country’s religious groups should practice their faiths.