Story Archive
2008-10-27
Amid rising demand, Western translators of Tibetan Buddhist texts want to form a guild.
2008-10-02
At least three Tibetans have been handed jail terms ranging from four to nine years in connection with several explosions in Markham county, Chamdo, during Tibetan protests earlier this year.
2008-09-26
Fallout from China's tainted milk-powder crisis widens in Tibet.
2008-09-23
Nepal’s Maoists have entered the country’s political mainstream, following a war that killed thousands. But is one-party rule still their ultimate goal?
2008-09-18
Chinese authorities detain a Tibetan television journalist in Sichuan, citing "political" material on his computer.
2008-09-03
Nearly six months after a Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule, authorities are releasing some Buddhist monks from detention in Golmud.
2008-08-25
Tibetan schoolchildren, now refugees in India, use art to express their thoughts about their homeland, their families, and China’s Olympics.
2008-08-13
An activist known as a voice for angry young Tibetans is released but his movements are restricted.
2008-08-11
A new film, Fire Under the Snow, sheds light on tensions in Tibet by looking at the life of an elderly Buddhist monk, Palden Gyatso, who survived years of torture and abuse in Chinese prisons.
2008-07-11
Chinese authorities cancel a Tibetan festival that erupted in protests a year ago.
2008-06-26
A Tibetan monk makes a bold request for an inquiry into alleged police graft after a large sum of cash goes missing during a search of his monastery in China's remote western province of Qinghai.
2008-06-24
Chinese authorities in the western province of Qinghai have drastically shortened the planned Olympic torch relay, changing the route to avoid the hometown of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, amid tight security in Tibetan-populated areas.
2008-06-12
Five Tibetans are arrested for protesting in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, amid sporadic demonstrations against Chinese rule.
2008-06-10
Nearly three months after massive Tibetan protests in western China, authorities haven't extinguished the unrest.
2008-05-29
Chinese authorities in the Tibet Autonomous Region this week detained five monks in connection with a series of small blasts during massive anti-Chinese protests in late March.
