Tibet, historically a sovereign entity, was forcibly annexed by China in 1950. Since then, Beijing has flooded the region with Han Chinese settlers, imposed Mandarin over Tibetan language, and placed ...

Ridgway resident trades mountaineering career to become conflict journalist. His film on Ukraine premiered last month in ...

In the thin air of Tibet's sprawling plateau, a quiet battle rages — not fought with weapons or armies, but with language, education, and policy. Over six decades after Beijing asserted control over ...

Tibet is a linguistically diverse place ... Critics see a continuation of Beijing’s war on Tibetan language education. The Chinese state has used the coronavirus pandemic to deepen its advance ...

Gonpo Namgyal is the victim of a slow-moving conflict that has dragged on for nearly 75 years, since China invaded Tibet in the mid-20th century. Language has been central to that conflict.

At least four workers have died after an avalanche swept away a large construction crew working on a highway near India’s mountainous border with Tibet, the Indian army said Saturday.

That movie was based on Heinrich Harrer’s 1952 memoir; he was an Austrian mountaineer and former SS sergeant who was cleared of Nazi crimes after the war. Harrer spent many years in Tibet ...

Now, 66 years after his dramatic escape from Lhasa, Tibet, his recently published book, unambiguously critical of Chinese President Xi Jinping, only decreases any prospects of his return home.

The 1962 India-China war led to creation of the Special Frontier Force (SFF), a Tibetan army based in Chakrata, Uttarakhand, whose objective was to infiltrate into Tibet within six months of its ...