Shangri-la is best-known as a fictional place—an idyllic valley first imagined by a British novelist in the 1930s—but look at a map and you’ll find it. Sitting at the foot of the Himalayas in ...

Hello, city-lovers! Today Song Lee tells us about all of the great things to see, do, and eat in Tibet’s capital city. Want to see your city on IT? Copy and paste our list of fill-in-the-blank ...

THE COMMUNIST Party chief of Tibet, Wu Yingjie, replied in January to a letter from a yak-herder living on the outskirts of the region’s capital, Lhasa. According to state media, the author, Sonam ...

In early July, thousands of Tibetans, Buddhists, and other well-wishers gathered in the northern Indian hill town of Dharamsala, the seat of the Tibetan government in exile, to mark the 90th birthday ...

Chinese tourists celebrated this summer when it was announced that Larung Gar would soon be open to visitors again. Many had long dreamed of seeing the remote Tibetan Buddhist settlement, home to ...

(For main story see CHINA-TIBET/ or click on [nPEK334594]) March 19 (Reuters) - Chinese troops moved in this week to tackle unrest in ethnic Tibetan enclaves in its western provinces after violent ...

THE brutal suppression of the Tibetan people’s struggle for freedom has destroyed the myth that China is an anti-imperialist and peace-loving country. The non-Communist intelligentsia in India have ...

Much of the research into these schools has been conducted by Dr. Gyal Lo, a sociologist and expert in Chinese education. Born in the traditional Tibetan region Amdo (in Gansu Province under the PRC), ...

Friday marked the 25th International Mother Language Day, a UNESCO observance for promoting the preservation and protection of linguistic diversity. For Tibetan communities on the Tibetan plateau and ...