Around two dozen Tibetan exiles arrested while demonstrating in Nepal last week have begun a hunger strike to protest against their detention, police said Wednesday. The detainees have been in police custody since March 10 -- the anniversary of a failed uprising against Chinese rule in Tibet -- under a law that allows authorities to hold people for up to 90 days ...

Chinese security forces have stepped up a crackdown in Tibet's capital Lhasa, two years after protests marking a failed 1959 uprising erupted in deadly violence, police and reports said Thursday. More than 400 people have reportedly been rounded up so far in the "strike hard storm" campaign launched earlier this month, which has worried residents on edge since the ...

Chinese security forces have stepped up a crackdown in Tibet's capital Lhasa, two years after protests marking a failed 1959 uprising erupted in deadly violence, the police and reports said Thursday. The "strike hard storm" began earlier this month and is aimed at cracking down on Tibetan independence activities and ordinary crime, a policeman at the city's Niangre ...