Oasis China concerts are shelved

Concert promoters said the Chinese culture ministry recently found out that Noel Gallagher played at a Free Tibet benefit in the US in 1997. The rest of the band’s South-East Asian tour will go ahead as planned.

Reverence for Dalai Lama defies Chinese rule

Years of Chinese government denunciations and decades in exile have not loosened the Dalai Lama’s influence over Tibetans in his homeland, where his banned image remains treasured.

Dalai Lama arrives in Dasa after Losar

Media persons throng to hear His Holiness the Dalai Lama speak as he arrives at the Gaggal airport near Dharamsala, Monday, March 2, 2009. The exiled Tibetan leader arrived to his exile home town in Northern India after spending weeks touring Europe and then Tibetans settlements in south India around the Tibetan New Year (Losar) time. During a four-day visit to Europe the Dalai Lama was made the honorary citizen of the Italian cities of Rome and Venice. In Germany he was awarded the 2008 German Media Prize. (Photo by Tenzin Dasel/Phayul)