Tibetan Monks are staging their biggest protest in nearly two decades against Chinese rule. Hundreds of demonstrators joined the Buddhist monks in the capital, Lhasa. Chinese state news agency reports ...
Beijing long allowed Mongols in China to live out their cultural identity. That, though, is now over. Xi Jinping has decided ...
(Updates with raid details in paragraphs 2-3) BEIJING, April 17 (Reuters) - Armed police raided a monastery in northwest China and detained dozens of Tibetan Buddhist monks on Thursday, following anti ...
A Chinese monk widely praised for helping hundreds of unwed pregnant women and abandoned children is now under criminal investigation for fraud, raising public concerns over transparency and oversight ...
BEIJING (AP) — One of China’s highest-ranking Buddhist monks is facing a government investigation over accusations of sexual misconduct, in what is seen by some as an indication the #MeToo movement is ...
Chinese authorities have sentenced two senior Tibetan monks to jail terms for their roles in a peaceful protest against the construction of a dam in a populated area of Sichuan province in Tibet. The ...
Choreographer Hallgrim Hansegård from Frikar Dance Company took four of his best Halling folk dancers with him to the Wudang Mountains in China, where kung fu master Chen Shiyu runs a martial arts ...
A prominent Tibetan monk has accused China of exerting pressure on Spain to introduce a law that limits the ability of Spanish courts to pursue cases of human-rights violations around the world. The ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - Security forces have detained about 300 Tibetan monks from a monastery in southwestern China for a month amid a crackdown sparked by a monk's self-immolation, two exiled Tibetans ...