To celebrate the 16th birthday of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama, on 25th April, the Office of Tibet, Brussels, organized the traveling version of the exhibition titled "A Long Look Homeward" at the University of Louvain la Neue.
Tickets of the direct bus linking Lhasa and Katmandu are available to Tibetan and Nepali passengers at the upcoming May Day. The ticket office starts operation on April 25 and the first direct bus is to head off from Lhasa to Katmandu at nine am. on April 29.
The Regional Tibetan Youth Congress (RTYC) and Regional Tibetan Women's Association (RTWA) have urged the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour to release the world's youngest political prisoner
On May 17th, 1995 the Chinese government abducted Gendun Choekyi Nyima who was then six years old and had just been recognized by the Dali Lama as the 11th Panchen Lama
A Tibetan woman accused of falsely declaring herself a Buddhist nun to gain asylum in the United States to flee persecution pleaded not guilty yesterday and is scheduled to go on trial in May.
We wish a very Happy 16th Birthday to Gedun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama, on 25th April 2005. We cannot celebrate the day with him, as he is not with us.
Hundreds of Tibetan monks living here, on Monday, held a prayer ceremony to mark the 16th birthday of Panchem Lama, their second highest religious leader.
The French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, currently visiting China, has stated France's support for the lifting of the EU's arms embargo on China, as well as for China's recent anti-secession law
On Tuesday 19th April the Luxembourg Parliament, with only a few abstentions, almost unanimously passed a resolution calling for the government of Luxembourg not to lift the EU arms embargo on China.
