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As the U.N. climate-change conference in Copenhagen approaches, we are in a race between political tipping points and natural ones. Can we cut carbon emissions fast enough to keep the melting of the Greenland ice sheet from...
Photo taken on Oct. 14, 2009, shows Tibetan girl Geyang (C) plays with her classmates at school in Heifei, capital city of east China's Anhui Province. (Xinhua/Liu Junxi) Photo Gallery>>> Geyang is an 11 years old girl who...
New Delhi, Nov 21 (IANS) Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama Saturday described Manmohan Singh as a 'clean politician' and said he was hopeful the prime minister would do whatever possible on the Tibetan issue when he meets...
Sky Train Tibetan Women on the Edge of History By Canyon Sam (University of Washington Press; 271 pages; $24.95 paperback) Third-generation Chinese American Canyon Sam went to China to find her roots in 1986. Instead she found...
Dharamsala, November 21 - The Tibetan Volunteers for Animals have joined other animal activists in seeking the Nepalese government’s intervention into the slaughter of half a million animals during the “Gadhimai” festival held...
Dharamsala, November 20 - "India has a culture and tradition of non-violence and brotherhood and this culture is thousands of years old," said His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The 74 year old Nobel laureate said he has learned a...
Four Chinese policemen have arrested on October 3 the head of a Tibetan medical college just outside United Nations’ refugee agency office building in Ulaanbaatar with the help of more than 10 Mongolian police officers, Radio...
Tsering Topgyal was born in Tibet. He is a PhD candidate in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, nearing completion of a dissertation titled 'The Insecurity Dilemma and the...
BEIJING, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- One of China's major airline companies has announced it plans to employ Tibetan flight attendants to serve a growing number of Tibetan travelers. China Eastern Airlines Co. Ltd. will target Tibetan...
Dharamsala, November 20 - "India has a culture and tradition of non-violence and brotherhood and this culture is thousands of years old," said His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The 74 year old Nobel laureate said he has learnt a lot...
