Tibet

After bloody race riots rocked China’s far west a decade ago, the ruling Communist Party turned to a rare figure in their ranks to restore order: a Han Chinese official fluent in Uighur, the language of the local Turkic Muslim minority. Now, newly revealed, confidential documents show that the official, Zhu Hailun, played a key role in planning and executing...

NBC 5 invites you to attend the 18th Asian Film Festival of Dallas at the Angelika Film Center for a unique entertainment experience from Thursday, July 18, through Thursday, July 25. This year’s festival boasts the highest number of documentaries, comedies and films directed and produced by women.

Contemporary Japanese artists’ ability to conquer the challenges of working with clay makes their works on display in “Hands and Earth: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics” extraordinary.

The Dalai Lama has been hospitalized in the Indian capital with a chest infection and is feeling better, his spokesman said Wednesday. The 83-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader is under medication and likely to spend a day or two in the hospital, spokesman Tenzin Taklha said. The Dalai Lama flew from Dharmsala for consultations with doctors in the capital and was...

China is defending its often-criticized rule in Tibet 60 years after the Dalai Lama fled into exile amid an abortive uprising against Chinese control, saying those who question its policies are merely showing their anti-Chinese bias. The statements in official media came as Tibetans and their supporters marked the anniversary Sunday and called for greater international support. Despite decades of...

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A Sichuan Airlines co-pilot was nearly sucked out of his plane’s cockpit when the jet’s windshield shattered at 30,000 feet Monday, about an hour into a flight from southwestern China to Tibet, NBC News reported. Captain Liu Chuanjian told Chengdu Business News that he struggled to maintain control of the plane full of 119 passengers while his co-pilot had “half...

Experience ‘From the Lands of Asia: The Sam and Myrna Myers Collection’ Now – August 19, 2018 at the Kimbell Art Museum.

Experience this celebration of cinema and culture at the 16th Asian Film Festival of Dallas July 13 – July 20 at the Angelika Film Center.

A Tibet women’s soccer team has been denied U.S. visas to participate in a tournament in Dallas.

A magnitude-6.4 earthquake struck a remote region of northwest China early Thursday, damaging a few dozen homes but causing no casualties.
The official Xinhua News Agency said the epicenter of the 1:13 a.m. quake was in an unpopulated area about 33 kilometers (20 miles) from the county seat of Menyuan in Qinghai province.