Dozens of Tibetan protesters clash with Indian police in New Delhi following the arrival President Hu Jintao here. A Tibetan exile who self-immolated on Wednesday in protest against China has died. more ›

Australia's top diplomat in China will be requesting Chinese authorities for an official visit to Tibet, where about 30 monks and nuns, mostly young people, have set themselves on fire in protest against Chinese policies in the region. Via AP: more ›

Prince Claus Award laureate Tsering Woeser writes in Foreign Policy about the silence of the Han Chinese people and the double standards of Chinese human rights activists on Tibetan self-immolations. She asks, how many Tibetans have to burn themselves before the Chinese care?: more ›

A Chinese scholar recently observed there are “more Chinese than Tibetans, more police than monks, more surveillance cameras than windows” in Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet. The entire region is under undeclared martial law. more ›

Hundreds of Tibetan exiles marched through parts of New Delhi to mark the anniversaries of the unsuccessful 1959 revolt and anti-Beijing riots which left many dead in the capital, Lhasa, in 2008. [Euronews] more ›

Holly Williams, China correspondent for Sky News, files these rare images from Aba, Sichuan province, now in a virtual state of lockdown following a spate of self-immolations by Tibetan monks and nuns. more ›

An 18-year-old Tibetan set himself ablaze on Monday while walking from a bridge to a Chinese office in Sichuan's Aba Autonomous Prefecture. The incident marks the third self-immolation in the past three days, and the 25th in the past 12 months - 18 of which proved fatal, including this latest case. more ›

It's that time of the year when delegates from all corners of the People's Republic gather in Beijing for the "Two Sessions" (ie., the National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference) to debate discuss important national issues and rubber-stamp pass new legislation. more ›

The Chinese press has been arguing that these protests violate Buddhist principles and rules, but in fact they resonate strongly with Buddhist tradition. Suicide is shunned in Buddhism if carried out for personal reasons, but self-sacrifice for a noble cause is highly regarded. There are many stories about the Buddha doing this in former lives, most famously one in which he sacrifices himself by giving his body to a dying tigress so she can feed her cubs. So an act that is done for the good of the community is considered noble, and especially so if it is done by a member of the clergy. more ›

Nearly 15 years after Hong Kong was returned to China, the Wall Street Journal reports that the new census results show the former British colony is now replacing English with Mandarin as the city's most commonly spoken second language. more ›

Today is Losar, or the Tibetan New Year, the single most important day in the Tibetan calendar. But for many living in the province, now closed off to the outside world, as well as other Tibetans around the world, there will be no singing and dancing this year. more ›

Beijing's mayor arrived at Taipei's Taoyuan International Airport on Thursday, and was received with the traditional welcome party for Chinese officials, with around 80 anti-China protestors and activists composed of Tibetans and Falun Gong practitioners waiting for Guo at the airport with signs and banners accusing him of genocide. more ›

Interesting series of pictures showing you the scene at Muscatine, Iowa, a small town in the American heartland revisited by Vice President Xi Jinping yesterday after some 27 years. Hear Tibetan protestors chant against China after the jump... more ›

Chen Quanguo, the Communist Party chief in Tibet, has called for tighter real-name registration requirements for internet and mobile phone usage, and greater supervision of internet, saying this would help ensure the "absolute security of Tibet's ideology and culture". more ›

US vice president Joe Biden offers Chinese vice president Xi Jinping a toast as he pledges to improve China's human rights record: More videos after the jump... more ›

On Sunday, 19-year-old Tibetan nun Tenzin Choezin set herself ablaze in Aba, Sichuan Province, and passed away. Yesterday, another 19-year-old Tibetan monk by the name of Lobsang Gyatso from the same region did the same thing. This brings to 24 the total number of self-immolations since the Tibet riots of 2009. But really, is anyone counting anymore? more ›

Three protesters rappel from the Arlington Memorial Bridge in Washington DC to unfurl a banner which read, "Xi Jinping -- Tibet will be free." They were detained after hanging the sign. more ›

A new report in the state-owned Tibet Daily claims that Tibetans are praising a new government program that provides them with basic public amenities and propaganda material. more ›

China's state-owned Xinhua News Agency, has confirmed the self-immolation of Tenzin Choezin (丹珍曲增), a teenage Tibetan nun Tenzin Choezin in Aba, Sichuan Province. more ›

Amidst disputed reports that three more Tibetan herders set themselves ablaze over the weekend to protest the government's repressive policies (bringing the total number of self immolations over the past year to 19), the Chinese government has vowed to continue it's crackdown on what it has described as a "handful of criminals illegally gathering and smashing and looting." more ›

Political has-been and erstwhile presidential hopeful US senator John McCain ruffled a few Chinese feathers over the weekend at a security conference in Munich by announcing that "The Arab Spring Is Coming To China." more ›

This notice put up by the Huayuan Road Public Security Bureau in Beijing's Haidian district requests owners of hotels and bathhouses in the neighbourhood to ensure that all Tibetan and Uyghur guests are reported to them. Business owners are also to ensure thorough identification and verification of the ethnicity of all guests, according to the notice. more ›

A new comic from Crazy Crab (疯蟹) comments on the current civil unrest in Tibet. Last week, 1 million portraits of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Hu Jintao (the four supreme leaders whose political reputations have survived to the present day) were distributed throughout the Tibet Autonomous Region, to be placed inside schools, homes and temples. more ›

Lobsang Sangay, Kalon Tripa of the Tibetan government-in-exile, comments on the recent shootouts on Tibetan protestors in the first few days of the Chinese New Year, and calls upon Tibetans to halt celebrations of Losar, the Tibetan New Year. Transcript after the jump... more ›

The activist group Free Tibet reported on Monday that a Tibetan man had been killed, and thirty others wounded, after police opened fire on protesters in the Sichuan county of Luhuo (also known as Drango or Draggo to Tibetans). It has now been revealed that the following day a separate protest in neighbouring county Seda (Serthar) resulted in at least one fatality, with as many as five claimed by various Tibetan media organisations. more ›

Chinese military forces are said to have opened fire on a group of protesting Tibetans, killing one and wounding 30 others, according to Free Tibet, an activist group campaigning for self-determination by Tibetans. The incident happened after a large gathering in Draggo (also Drango, or Luhuo in Chinese), some 600km westwards of Chengdu. more ›

This video "I Am Tibetan" was first posted on a Chinese video-hosting website on December 19, 2009 and has been circulating widely. It came later to be posted on YouTube by a Tibetan called Jigdo and is now being disseminated by Tibetans all over the world through social networking sites such as Facebook. more ›

"Are we more interested in money or are we more interested in the truth? Eventually you have to bow to the will of the people and especially as their progress as an economy, education also gets higher; their interactions with the world and other people's functioning in the world, and the openness of self-expression. No one wants to live in hypocrisy, and China is the largest hypocrisy in the world right now." more ›

A Tibetan activist group has released a video that purportedly shows the moment Palden Choetso, set herself on fire and burned to death in a widely publicised self-immolation protest in Sichuan on November 3. More here. more ›