The legislation aims to reduce the number of medical emergencies on the world’s highest peak

The follow-up to Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line explores the history of colonial exploration through a perilous 19th-century odysseyWith her peripatetic and philosophical second novel, Deepa Anappara travels into uncharted territory. Her dazzling 2020 debut, Djinn Patrol on the...

The essays in a new anthology offer two distinct ways of interpreting the Promethean legacy of scientific progress.

Teachers' strikes in Iran condemn student killings during protests as mourning ceremonies take place nationwide.

Public signage newly displayed at Tibetan Buddhist monasteries confirms a Chinese government policy that forbids children under 18 from entering monasteries or receiving classes from monks. Source

Organizers of the 2026 Winter Olympics are betting that the event will lure more tourists to northern Italy for years to come

Amid Cuba’s deepening fuel crisis, countries are bowing to US pressure and winding down their Cuban medical programmes.

Broadcaster shut down news operations last year after Trump administration’s funding cuts prompted mass layoffs

(Paris) – Chinese authorities have attempted to pressure two ethnic Uyghur activists living in Paris, including by asking one to spy on France’s Uyghur diaspora, Human Rights Watch said today. The case highlights the Chinese government’s increasing harassment of critics abroad and members of diaspora communities, abusive acts beyond China’s borders known as “transnational repression.”

China has previously criticised the role, accusing the US of interfering in China’s internal affairs.

CEO said services have restarted after termination of grants led to criticism that US was ceding ground to ChinaRadio Free Asia has resumed broadcasts to people in China, its chief executive said on Tuesday, after Trump administration cuts last...

Political Sinicization is not the only possible or desirable form of Sinicization. A new book on Jingjiao offers an alternative. The post The Luminous Nestorians: When Christianity Was Already Chinese first appeared on Bitter Winter.

Tarique Rahman of the BNP is sworn in as the prime minister of Bangladesh. His cabinet appointments are also revealed.

Dear readers and supporters, HKFP marked 10 years of publishing in 2025 – with our newsroom reaching the milestone intact and motivated, if not somewhat battered and bruised by the political and economic pressures facing the media at home...

Joe Keery, Natalia Dyer, Sadie Sink, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo and Caleb McLaughlin were all in attendance at Hawke’s wedding to singer Christian Lee Hutson

Eileen Guo and Alysa Liu have been thrust into a debate that goes far beyond sports.

Prominent Tibetan environmental defender and community leader A-nya Sengdra has been released from Mianyang prison after an extended seven year prison sentence. Source

A book tries to answer a question that has haunted experts for several years: the attack was irrational. Why did China do it? The post A Puzzle Wrapped in Barbed Wire: Why China Attacked India in 2020 first appeared...

Doubling of fish biomass and rebounding of endangered species shows government measures starting to work, biologists sayThe Yangtze River in China, which has been in ecological decline for 70 years, is showing signs of recovery thanks to a sweeping...

Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our graspWe have an urgent responsibility. Our existing economic system is incapable of addressing...

The post Estonian Parliament calls for the immediate abolition of the boarding school system in Tibet appeared first on Tibet Action Institute.

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Buddhist monks had walked 2,300 miles from Texas, braving snow and often barefoot – their arrival in the capital was greeted by thousandsBhante Saranapala gazed down at more than a hundred Buddhist monks wearing burnt-orange, saffron and maroon robes,...

Click to expand Image Anna Kwok, a Hong Kong activist exiled in the US, in Washington, DC, July 10, 2023. ( © 2024 Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters (New York) – A Hong Kong court’s conviction of the father of a prominent...