Portland seems like a natural place for the Dalai Lama to visit. City leaders infuriated the Chinese government three years ago when they approved "Tibet Awareness Day" and a city commissioner raised the Tibetan flag in front of City Hall.

EUGENE, Ore. - Tickets for the Dali Lama's appearance at Matthew Knight Arena in May sold out in 20 minutes Monday morning, the University of Oregon said.

Tickets went on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. By 10:20 a.m., all 3,000...

"Limitations on speech and expression are incompatible with fundamental human rights anywhere in the world, and an attempt by your representatives to limit freedom of speech in the United States is a grave affront," Sen. Wyden wrote in a letter the Chinese ambassador.

Dozens of Tibetans have set themselves on fire over the past year to protest Chinese rule, sometimes drinking kerosene to make the flames explode from within, in one of the biggest waves of political self-immolations in recent history.

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping began the last day of his U.S. visit Friday by urging closer ties and arguing that Americans benefit from their trade relationship with China.

Syrian security forces fired live rounds and tear gas at thousands of people marching Saturday in a funeral procession that turned into a protest in Damascus, killing at least one person, activists said.

A Tibetan monk set himself on fire in western China and was beaten by security forces as they put out the flames, a rights group said, marking the latest in a series of dramatic protests against China's handling of its vast Tibetan areas.