Headlines- Two days after catastrophic flash flood struck the border between China and Nepal, rescue workers have resumed searching for hundreds of people who are still missing.
- At least 538 people killed and another 1,300 went missing on Wednesday after landslides caused by a glacial collapse unleashed a torrent of mud and water across Nepal and China's autonomous region of Tibet.
- Iran's President Pezeshkian and Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf met with Qatar's prime minister and foreign minister to discuss ongoing efforts to defuse the situation in the region.
- According to Iran's security chief, Moshen Rezaei, his country is preparing together a list of conditions to submit to the United States in order to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
- In an attempt to rename Lake Ontario as "Lake America," US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday, further escalating his conflict with Canada and its prime minister.
- Mazloum Abdi, the leader of the now-dissolved Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), has been named presidential advisor by Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa.
Tag: RFA Tibetan Service
Authorities Allow Tibetans in Lhasa to...
Chinese authorities have relaxed severe COVID-19 lockdowns in parts of the far-western Tibet region, allowing Tibetans residing temporarily in the regional capital Lhasa for work or other reasons to return to their hometowns beginning Monday
Tibetans in Lhasa Forced to Watch...
Chinese authorities are ordering residents of Tibet’s regional capital Lhasa to tune in to television coverage of China’s 20th Communist Party Congress, forbidding them to leave their homes until the sessions end, RFA has learned.
Cultivate Compassion, Dalai Lama Urges,and Use...
Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama called for people to train their minds to cultivate compassion and cautioned that digital technology should be used only to benefit humanity, at a two-day gathering in northern India that ended Thursday
Dalai Lama Calls for Courage Amid...
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama called on Tibetans this week not to lose heart amid harsh COVID restrictions imposed by China in the formerly independent Himalayan country.
Chinese Authorities Allegedly Torture 5 Tibetans,...
Chinese authorities in Tibet have allegedly arrested and tortured five Tibetans, killing one of them, for publicly lighting incense and praying, two Tibetan sources living in exile told RFA
Three Tibetans Reported Dead from COVID...
Three Tibetans have recently died from COVID-19 as the virus continues to spread across China’s Tibet Autonomous Region and local netizens complain of harsh and unsanitary quarantine procedures, RFA has learned
Two Tibetan Monks Sentenced for Possessing...
Chinese authorities sentenced two Tibetan monks to at least three years in prison for possessing photos of the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s foremost Buddhist spiritual leader who has been living in exile since 1959, RFA has learned
COVID-19 Infections Rise in Xinjiang,Said to...
Authorities in Xinjiang are implementing new lockdowns in response to a coronavirus outbreak thought to have originated with Chinese tourists who visited the western region’s Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, local officials said
China Warns Tibetans Not to Post...
The Chinese government has ramped up restrictions ahead of the birthday of a preeminent Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, calling on local leaders in two Tibetan regions to prevent people from posting his photo or well wishes online, sources with knowledge of the situation said Thursday
Tibetan Festival Allowed by China to...
A Tibetan community festival, banned for 20 years after the arrest of a popular religious leader, has been allowed by Chinese authorities to resume with no  explanation given for the sudden lifting of control, Tibetan sources say