Rescuers working in extreme conditions evacuated 46 other construction workers trapped beneath feet of snow.

More than 50 workers were submerged under snow and debris after the avalanche hit a construction camp in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand.

  March 1, 2025: President Trump on the first day in office issued a raft of Executive Orders including “Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid” which called for a “90-day pause in United States foreign development assistance for...

Rescue operation still under way after avalanche in Chamoli region, adjoining Tibet, trapped dozens of workers.

The avalanche struck a labour site where eight containers and one shed, with 57 workers inside, were buried under the snow.

Strong winds and blocked roads hinder rescue mission for 42 workers caught in Uttarakhand avalanche.

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Click to expand Image An immigration detention center in Bangkok, Thailand, February 26, 2025. © 2025 Jerry Harmer/AP Photo (Bangkok) – The Thai government violated domestic and international law by forcibly sending at least 40 Uyghur men to China,...

New York City will honor Losar, the Tibetan New Year, by suspending alternate side parking rules for the first time on Feb. 28. This recognition places Losar alongside major holidays like Diwali and Eid. For Tibetan New Yorkers, it’s a meaningful acknowledgment of their culture, history, and community.

Five times a day, approximately one-fourth of the world's population turns toward Mecca to bow their heads in prayer. The Kaaba at the center of this global genuflection has a cornerstone that some speculate is a meteor. Meteoritic artifacts...

Brother of the Dalai Lama and political envoy who led talks on the exiled leader’s return to Tibet with the Chinese governmentThe life of Gyalo Thondup, who has died aged 97, was transformed after one of his younger brothers,...

Leeds, Sheffield United and Burnley are all vying for Premier League returns but fans will ask if it’s really worth itTibetan Buddhist monks will spend months working in cold conditions, icing their fingers, enduring significant discomfort, to create gorgeously...

Jiang Chaoling, who was dismissed as Hubei party boss at the start of Wuhan outbreak, also spent years in the financial sector.

Another State Department website change shows Trump ‘seems indifferent’ to the importance of the Taiwan issue to Beijing, academic says.

The towering peaks of the Himalayas form more than just a geographical barrier between India and China; they represent a formidable military challenge. The Line of Actual Control (LAC), where the two nations’ troops stand eye to eye, presents...

Supporters celebrate the release of an Indigenous activist imprisoned for killing of FBI agents after a flawed trial.

Click to expand Image A person holds a Chinese passport at the Zabaikalsk international checkpoint on the Russian-Chinese border, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia, October 17, 2023.  © Evgeny Yepanchintsev / Sputnik via AP (Taipei) – The Chinese government has increasingly imposed...

By Ayjaz Wani In a tactical move to reduce the travel time between northern and southern Xinjiang from seven hours to three hours while protecting goods from harsh winter conditions, China completed excavating the world’s longest roadway tunnel in the Tianshan...

By Jui Marathe and Chaitanya Giri India's Ministry of Defence (MoD) started 2025 by deeming it the ‘Year of Reforms’. This year, it has pledged its focus on emerging technologies, especially robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI). The...

U.S. funding for the promotion of democracy has been frozen, disrupting the work of groups that expose abuses in China. Chinese nationalists are celebrating.

Aerial view of Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, dated July 2015. From rfa.org Recent media reports indicate that more than a thousand male and female Tibetan monastic have been expelled from Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, reputed to be the largest...

Gyalo Thondup, for long a mediator with Beijing, died aged 97 last week in his adopted Indian hometown.

WASHINGTON — A newly released report from the United Nations’ International Labor Organization states that authorities in China are not only using "vocational skills training and education centers" for forced labor in Xinjiang and Tibet, but also the large-scale transfer...

February 11, 2025: Asia Freedom Institute released a report entited China’s National Park Project on The Tibetan Plateau: Conservation or Assimilation? What China Can Learn From Other Countries. The statement accompanying the report said “China’s efforts to protect the landscape,...

The CCP’s religious and cultural repression on the Tibetan Plateau is also feeding an ecological crisis. The response from the world has been a deafening silence.