Dalai Lama wants to form ‘world peace dream team’
The Dalai Lama is calling on respected world figures to join forces and intervene in major disputes. The exiled Tibetan leader says luminaries such as former Czech President Vaclav Havel and Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Dalai Lama wants to form ‘world peace dream team’
The exiled Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama, greets photographers as he poses in the courtyard of the George V hotel in Paris, Monday, Oct. 13, 2003. The Dalai Lama is proposing that world luminaries such as former Czech President Vaclav Havel and Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu join forces to defuse crises such as the turmoil in Iraq. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Public to foot £16,500 bill for Dalai Lama visit
The council will foot the £16,500 bill for the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama’s visit to the Capital. The Nobel Peace Prize winner is to visit Edinburgh in June next year.
EU to press China over human rights
The European Union called Monday for continuing high-level talks with China on human rights, saying the issue is crucial to its ties with Beijing.
China calls for end to European arms embargo in white paper on Sino-EU ties
The Chinese government called on the European Union (news – web sites) to lift a ban on arms sales to China which has been in place since the Tiananmen Square massacre 14 years ago, state media reported.
A Glittering Evening for First Tibetan Music Awards
Ceremony for the first Tibetan Music Awards ended Saturday amid much fanfare and jubilations. A major attraction of the 4th Free Spirit Festival, the music award is aimed at encouraging the budding artistes of the Tibetan community and giving them the due recognition for their work
A Glittering Evening for First Tibetan Music Awards
Artistes open the awards ceremony with a song in praise of Lhamo Yangchenma. (Photo:Tenam)
ATPD Urges Beijing for Better Treatment of Prisoners
The parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration has expressed deep regret and shock over the sad demise of Nyima Drakpa, a political prisoner, after suffering extreme tortures at the hands of Chinese authorities.
Two group of refugees sent to UNHCR after arrest
Eleven & twenty three of two group Tibetan refugees arrested in this week at delduldura and Birganj (border with India) for illegally entering Nepal were sent to Tibetan Refugee reception center through the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Kathmandu, today.
Longest tunnel on Qinghai-Tibet railway completed
Construction on the 3,345-meter Yangbajain No. 1 tunnel on the Qinghai-Tibet railway was completed Sunday in the Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China.