Star Wars premieres in Lhasa

Movie fans swarmed to theaters in Lhasa, capital of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, Friday to watch “Star Wars Episode III – Revenge of the Sith”, the first blockbuster premiering in Tibet simultaneously with elsewhere in the world.

Invoking Buddha to save the big cats

The poaching of tigers from supposedly protected areas in India has got so bad that the Dalai Lama has thrown his weight behind a campaign aimed at changing attitudes among Tibetan expats in that country and in Nepal