Tibetan nun arrested for protest dies in hospital
A Tibetan nun from Kardze county died early Sunday in a hospital in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, sources in exile said.
A nun of Kardze Lamdrag nunnery
Furore over Tibetan flag as NZ Opposition Leader meets Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama met with opposition leader Phil Goff after arriving in New Zealand with a flurry of diplomatic protocol hanging over him.
20 now face death sentence for Xinjiang riots
The riots in July were prompted by long-simmering resentment between minority Uyghurs and majority Han Chinese. The Uyghurs are mostly Muslims in Xinjiang. Some Islamists refer to the region as East Turkistan
Uighurs flee China, seek asylum in Cambodia – exile group
A group of Uighurs who have fled China are seeking asylum through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, an overseas activist group said, adding that other would-be refugees had been captured while fleeing
Popularity soars for Taiwan opposition leader
The survey said voters had punished the KMT for several reasons, among them concerns about the government’s push for a controversial trade agreement with China
Trust – an essential ingredient in relationships, says Dalai Lama
Trust is a crucial element in building strong communites, the Dalai Lama told a large audience at Auckland’s Vector Arena Dec
Kundun and the Anatomy of Hope
This short prayer, along with everything else that has any association with the 14th Dalai Lama is banned in Tibet and a violation of that ban is considered a reactionary act w
Melting Himalayan glaciers threaten 1.3 billion Asians
More than a billion people in Asia depend on Himalayan glaciers for water, but experts say they are melting at an alarming rate, threatening to bring drought
The new relationship(s)
Even as the post-conflict discussion in Nepal demands limiting the future size and scope of the country’s army, in early October a new security contingent went into a