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Nepal-Tibet floods death toll exceeds 1,000: officials

The death toll from catastrophic flooding in Nepal and China rose over 1,000 yesterday, authorities said, as rescue teams worked to reach communities cut off by the disaster. Nepal’s d...

China’s silence after Tibet flooding

The devastation in Tibet from flooding caused by a glacial collapse in the Himalayas was immediate and profound. Entire communities were left in shock, families were torn apart and countless ...

Nepal-Tibet flood and preparing for more climate-linked disasters

Thousands of people in Nepal and Tibet are in desperate need of emergency assistance following Wednesday’s disaster. With 360 people confirmed dead, more than 1,300 others are still missing a...

Taiwan prepares national search-and-rescue team after Nepal-Tibet flood

Taiwan has prepared its national search-and-rescue team to travel to Nepal, officials said yesterday, a day after a catas...

Preserving Tibet’s language and customs in the face of China’s ‘ethnic unity’ law

Kalsang Lhamo traces a series of vertical strokes, slow but firm, practicing Tibetan calligraphy. A 73-year-old retired nurse, she has spoken Tibetan all her life but never learned to write it. Now, i...

Tibetan activists protest China ethnic unity law at bank

Yesterday marked one month since Tibetan activist Lobga Rangzen self-immolated in protest, and his family hoped the date would act as a “global action day,” calling on Tibetan communities and human...

China’s erasure of Tibet is accelerating

The self-immolation of exiled Tibetan activist Lobga Rangzen outside UN headquarters in New York on July 2 was not an expression of personal despair. It was a desperate attempt to jolt the world out o...

Penpa Tsering sworn in as Tibet-in-exile leader

Penpa Tsering on Wednesday was sworn in for a second consecutive term as the president of Tibet’s government-in-exile following his re-election earlier this year.Tsering, 58, h...