By continuing to use our services you agree to our updated Terms of Use. We have also updated our Privacy Policy to provide more detail about how we process and share your personal information, and ...

Explore Tibet's ongoing struggle against Chinese control, including the Dalai Lama’s spiritual succession and Beijing's ...

The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, turned 90 years old and blessed the crowd of devotees gathered to offer their good wishes ...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Jayashree Arunachalam, Anand Vardhan, and Shardool Katyayan are joined ...

In Texas, more than 100 people were confirmed dead and dozens remain missing after a tropical moisture-laden storm system unleashed 10–18 inches (25–46 cm) of rain in mere hours.

China has also sought to elevate other spiritual figures, particularly Tibetan Buddhism’s No. 2 figure, the Panchen Lama. A boy recognized by the Dalai Lama as the new Panchen disappeared soon after, ...

Because markets have seen this show before. The template is familiar: threat, delay, offer to negotiate, and possibly — if ...

A million Tibetan children and adolescents have been forcibly lodged in Chinese administration-run boarding schools in occupied Tibet, with at least 1 lakh of them being preschoolers in the 4-6 age ...

Beijing sees having power over the selection of the spiritual leader’s successor as an opportunity to stamp more authority on ...

A new report by Tibet Action Institute highlights allegations of abuse and indoctrination faced by Tibetan children in ...

Every Friday, we recap highlights of the news from China. This week, we are flagging some hurdles ahead of an EU summit in ...