For decades, Beijing has maintained that the Dalai Lama is a separatist, but Tibet's exiled spiritual leader once had a special relationship with the father of Xi Jinping, the man in line to become Ch

There are encouraging signs that attitudes towards Tibet are shifting in China, the Dalai Lama said on Wednesday, adding that the exiled Tibetan leadership is ready for fresh talks on his homeland if

While people from the north-east are fleeing the state in panic, worried about their safety in the aftermath of the Assam riots and the related violence in Mumbai and elsewhere, Prime Minister of the

Hundreds of Tibetans demonstrated in northwest China after police beat four people, an exile group and a US broadcaster said, following a recent string of self-immolations in the region.

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Two ethnic Tibetan men set themselves on fire together in southwest China to protest Beijing's rule, causing clashes between residents and security forces, rights groups said on Tuesday.

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On any other day and in any other situation, the Tibetan exiles who gathered excitedly in groups next to Buckingham Palace would never have come to cheer for an athlete wearing the colors of China, a country they regard as their oppressor, a country that invaded and has governed their Himalayan homeland with an iron fist for six decades.

It has all the appearance of an arms race on the roof of the world.

Asia's two great powers are facing off here in the eastern Himalayan mountains. China has vastly improved roads and is building or

The battle against separatism should be stepped up in Tibet where ''ethnic unity, social harmony and stability is the lifeline," a top Chinese leader has said.

A teenage Tibetan Buddhist monk set himself on fire in southwest China on Tuesday, the exiled Tibetan government said, the latest in a series of self-immolation protests against Chinese rule.

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Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, who is on a private visit to Kashmir, on Saturday said dialogue is the only way to resolve any issue as violence is in no one's interest.