In 1995, Ngawang Choephel returned to his native Tibet to document the country’s fast-disappearing folk-singing tradition. Instead, he was accused of being a spy and sentenced to 18 years in prison by ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -Tibet marked its 60th year as a Chinese autonomous region on Thursday with songs, dances and a parade in its capital Lhasa with thousands cheering, holding little red flags, amid ...

BEIJING — Customers in China of Apple’s iTunes online-music store were unable to download songs this week, and an activist group said Beijing was trying to block access to a new Tibet-themed album. In ...

Police in Tibet have swept markets in recent months looking for banned music. Chinese state media report that police have arrested several suspects for allegedly downloading to their cell phones music ...

Cairang Ji sits on a bed in the main room of a farmhouse here holding her two grandchildren on her lap as she quietly speaks the verses of an old folk song. Two other grandmothers dutifully repeat the ...

The iTunes Store was blocked in China two weeks after an album released by Tibet activists appeared, but after the Olympics Games concluded, it was available once again. Silicon Hutong has written a ...

After the 2015 earthquake, many mountain communities in Nepal stopped celebrating festivals because they were in mourning. More than three years later, devotional songs are being heard again. Last ...

Tibet established by Beijing as an autonomous region in 1965 Xi makes rare visit to Tibet to mark anniversary Festivities in Lhasa attended by more than 20,000 people BEIJING, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Tibet ...