Tibet
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Hong Kong police tell people not to download ‘secessionist’ mobile game
Players face possible arrest for downloading Taiwan-developed Reversed Front: Bonfire, which lets them ‘overth…
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Dalai Lama says his successor will be born outside China in the ‘free world’
New book by spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism will raise the stakes in a dispute with Beijing over control …
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Gyalo Thondup obituary
Brother of the Dalai Lama and political envoy who led talks on the exiled leader’s return to Tibet with the Ch…
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Tibet earthquake: rescuers search for survivors after powerful quake kills 126
At least 188 people injured and more than 3,600 homes destroyed after the earthquake struck the foothills of t…
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Tibet earthquake: scores dead and hundreds of homes damaged – video
A strong earthquake has struck near Shigatse, one of Tibet’s holiest cities, killing scores of people, damagin…
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Tibet earthquake: at least 95 reported dead as strong quake strikes near holy Shigatse city – live updates
Chinese state media also say 130 injured as rescue efforts in remote high-altitude terrain underway in below-f…
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Tibet earthquake: scores dead and hundreds of homes damaged
Quake damaged buildings in Shigatse and could be felt hundreds of kilometres away in Nepal and the Indian stat…
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More clues in 100-year-old Mount Everest mystery as climber’s foot found
Foot, boot and sock believed to belong to Sandy Irvine, who disappeared in George Mallory’s 1924 expedition, d…
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Genetics journal retracts 17 papers from China due to human rights concerns
Researchers used samples from populations deemed by experts and campaigners to be vulnerable to exploitation, …
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China’s human rights record criticised at UN as it faces rare scrutiny of policies
UK, US and others use universal periodic review to speak out over Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong KongThe UK, the US …
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Thermo Fisher stops sale of DNA kits in Tibet after activists raised fears of rights abuses
Campaigners say testing is among methods used to surveil people in the tightly controlled regionThe US biotech…
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Heinrich Harrer’s Seven Years in Tibet reviewed – archive, October 1953
16 October 1953: An account of the Austrian climber’s escape from a British prison in India, crossing the Hima…
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Two die in avalanches on Shishapangma mountain in Tibet
American climber and Nepalese guide killed in attempt to scale world’s 14th tallest peakAvalanches have struck…
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How hole in ozone layer affected summer rainfall in Tibet
Study shows increase and decrease in rain linked to changes in ozone levels in upper atmosphereRepairing the o…
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China officials hit by US sanctions over ‘forced assimilation’ of children in Tibet
Antony Blinken criticises China’s state boarding schools that ‘seek to eliminate Tibet’s distinct linguistic, …