The head of Tibet's government-in-exile on Thursday defended the Dalai Lama over footage of him asking a boy to suck his tongue, saying the incident had demonstrated the country's spiritual leader ...

BEIJING, Jan 13 (Reuters) - A rural county in the Chinese region of Tibet, still feeling tremors from last week’s magnitude 6.8 earthquake, was jolted on Monday night by two powerful aftershocks ...

Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region has announced plans to invest 13.7 billion yuan (about 1.99 billion U.S. dollars) this year in initiatives aimed at improving the well-being of local ...

China has ruled Tibet since 1951, and critics say it has stifled its culture, language and religion. This week’s protests marked the March 10 anniversary of a failed 1959 uprising against China.

In 2012, these measures were described as necessary for “national sovereignty and ethnic unity” and to “strengthen and innovate social management” (China Tibet News, March 19, 2012).

China has pledged to invest 100 billion yuan ($13-billion U.S.) in Tibet over the next four years, building the world's highest airport and offering development in an apparent bid to boost an ...

A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 13, 2010, Section A, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: Tibet: Life Sentence For Hotel Owner.

Music for a cause The Free Tibet DVD includes a Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound and Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo mix, as well as a bonus live video of "Root Down" from the Beastie Boys.

The protesters shouted "Free Tibet!" and other slogans as they were being detained, but there was no violence, witnesses said. Senior police official Atul Fulzele said the protesters had been ...

In China, a country struggling to care for nearly 1 billion peasants in its vast countryside, the Tibetan nomads–who live in the Tibet Autonomous Region and parts of the surrounding provinces ...