By Ben Blanchard KASHGAR, China (Reuters) - China locked down the far-western former Silk Road city of Kashgar on Tuesday in preparation for the passage of the Olympic torch relay through the sensitive region populated by ethnic-minority Muslim...
By John Ruwitch SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - China kept up a barrage of criticism against the Dalai Lama on Sunday, even as envoys of Tibet's exiled spiritual leader went into fence-mending talks with officials, the first since unrest in the mountain...
By Alistair Scrutton NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Senior envoys of the Dalai Lama are traveling to China to meet the government over the crisis in Tibet, the government-in-exile said on Friday, only three months before the Beijing Olympics open. After a...
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities will harshly deal with anyone who spreads rumors which ''excite popular feelings'' or disturb social harmony in the already restive region of Tibet, the government said on Thursday. The notice, coming just...
BEIJING (Reuters) - Police have found guns, dynamite, bullets and satellite receivers hidden in 11 Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in China's northeastern Gansu province, state media reported on Wednesday. The weapons caches were found over the past...
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