The Central Tibetan Administration has highlighted the cases of Lodoe Gyatso and Palden Yeshi, both imprisoned under opaque legal proceedings. Gyatso is serving 18 years for a peaceful protest, while Yeshi received six years after disappearing in 2021, reportedly...

Sonia Faleiro’s The Robe and the Sword: How Buddhist Extremism is Shaping Modern Asia follows a spectre that is haunting parts of South Asia — radical Buddhism, which many would see as a contradiction in terms. Buddhism has, in public thinking and discourse, been associated with

Although the terms “language” and “dialect” refer to different things, in real life the boundary between the two is not always clear-cut, and their linguistic definitions are often influenced by polit...

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) is “playing with fire” with her remark that the Taiwan Strait should “never be a chessboard for interference by external forces,” Premier ...

When political leaders speak of “peace” across the Taiwan Strait, the word carries an intuitive appeal. However, in international politics, peace rests on commitments — and not all commitments are equ...

HO CHI MINH CITY -- From its first gurgles in the mountains of Tibet, the Mekong River winds its way for more than 4,000 kilometers through China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. It then splits into nine channels in a region known as Cuu Long (Nine Dragons) to the Vietnamese, and "the rice bowl of Vietnam" to outsiders.

OPINION Tenzin Norsang* expresses dismay that despite an official policy against it, and a national philosophy of compassion, corporal punishment continues to be prevalent in exile Tibetan schools and urges administrators, teachers, parents, and everyone else concerned about it...

Taipei, April 11 (CNA) Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰) said on Saturday that Kuomintang (KMT) Chairperson Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) was "playing with fire" with her remark a day earlier that the Taiwan Strait should "never be a chessboard for interference...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, April 11: Rights and advocacy group Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy on Friday, ahead of the final phase of the Tibetan general election, organised a debate series titled ‘Democratic Dialogue’ in Dharamshala at Norbu House. The...

April 10, 2026 The Senate of the Czech Republic last month adopted a resolution opposing Chinese interference in the succession of the Dalai Lama and affirming the Tibetan people’s right to choose their own spiritual leader. The post New...