Contacts Between China, Dalai Lama Encouraging, U.S. Says
The United States is encouraged by China’s invitations to the Dalai Lama’s representatives in 2002 and 2003, and hopes that such contacts will continue so that substantive dialogue between the two sides can lead to “a negotiated settlement on questions regarding Tibet,” the State Department says.
Langma: a place Tibetans call their own
This is a highway town, if you agree with the Chinese maps that the series of wheel ruts running East-West across the centre of Tibet deserves the term highway.
Stopping brain drain tops Tibetan plan
In its first-ever consolidated three-year plan, the Tibetan government-in-exile has expressed concern over the growing exodus of educated skilled youth from the Tibetan settlements in India and the need for better management of international aid.
Tokyo celebrates the Dalai Lama’s birthday
Representative Chope recounted briefly about His Holiness life and expressed his joy for the occasion and lamented over the fact that fellow Tibetans in Tibet are not free to celebrate the auspicious occasion.
His Holiness’s birthday celebrated in Hungary
The 69th birth anniversary of His Holiness the Dalai Lama was celebrated by over 250 people, including Tibetans, Tibet Supporters and members of Buddhist Community, who gathered together from various parts of Hungary and Slovakia.
Man dies after catching anthrax from cow
A herdsman has died after contracting anthrax from eating beef in a rare occurrence of the acutely infectious disease in humans in China, local health officials said yesterday.