Growing Han Chinese awareness and activism poses the only pressure Beijing cannot ignore on Tibet.

HKFP is joining 1,000 news organisations across more than 100 countries to highlight World News Day on September 28. Coinciding with the UN International Day for Universal Access to Information, it aims to promote fact-based journalism, truth and media...

Crowds gathered near the White House as U.S. President Trump hosted Xi for a state dinner.

Over 3,000 Tibetans, Chinese dissidents, Uyghurs, Hong Kongers, and other groups joined protests during Xi’s state visit, calling for human rights and political freedom.

Demonstrators reported being physically assaulted by supporters of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) carrying large Chinese flags, who sought to outnumber protesters and dominate the protest sites where Tibetans and Hong Kongers were demonstrating.

Olena Kalynychenko is among thousands missing after devastating floods hit the Nepal-China border

The proposal comes nearly a month after a flood along Bhotekoshi-Trishuli corridor devasated Nepal and Tibet. Shah said the disaster showed that climate change does not see national borders.

Organizers estimate thousands are gathering to call attention to the ‘ethnic unity law’ and human rights.

Nepali Prime Minister Balendra Shah will press for international support at the UN General Assembly after the disaster that killed more than 1,400 people in his country and China's Tibet. 

Exile advocacy groups are hopeful that summit will include talks on religious freedom and ending genocide.

‘The United States should continue to promote international religious freedom,’ the senators said.

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Beijing has appointed a new party chief in Tibet as the Communist Party shuffles regional leaders ahead of its 21st national congress. Hu Changsheng, 62, will serve as the party secretary of Tibet autonomous region, leaving his post as...

Following a familiar pattern, coverage of the glacier collapse on the Nepal-Tibet border last month has subsided with the initial shock. However, while the world’s attention has shifted, Nepa...

Development in known hazard zones is creating untenable risks for communities around the world. Here’s how Nepal and the global community can build back differently.

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Alina B.K. should have been preparing for her end-of-year university exams, but news of devastating floods along the Nepal–Tibet border kept pulling her back to a troubling question: what kind of future awaits her? The 21-year-old forestry student, who...

The Chinese narrative attempts to erase the independent agency Tibet exercised before 1951, framing Shipki La as a historical link between China and India (not Tibet and India).

The problem wasn’t the volume of emergency information – it was who it came from, and how it was delivered.

Any additional emissions from a UK gasfield are incompatible with climate targets.

Tibetan advocacy group ICT urged US President Trump to seek the release of Panchen Lama and resume dialogue with Dalai Lama during Xi Jinping's visit, citing US laws.

In this week’s newsletter: As the Guardian launches a year-long project, Our Rivers, we take stock of the issues facing waterways around the worldDon’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereThe nicknames of the world’s...

The Himalayan disaster that tore through the China-Nepal border last month was a human calamity before it became a media story. A torrent of ice, rock, mud and debris swept through valleys, destroying key infrastructure, severing roads and communications,...

New research links last month’s disaster to fossil fuel pollution. Supporting disaster-hit countries must be at the centre of climate politicsFollowing a familiar pattern, coverage of the glacier collapse on the Nepal-Tibet border three weeks ago has subsided with...

Beijing’s real vulnerability is not international action. It’s rising awareness within the Chinese population.