After the 2000 U.S. presidential elections in Florida made democracy in America safe and secure in a few powerful hands, instead of scattered among the millions of weak ones belonging to citizens who don’t grasp the Orwellian significance
As the 59th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) concluded it annual meeting on 25 April, another NGO written statement was made available amongst the documents. In this written statement, the International Fellowship of Reconciliation
The changing of the guard in Beijing has brought no change at all in the repressive tactics used by China against Tibetans, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said Monday.
No cases of the potentially lethal viral infection known as 'Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome' (SARS) have been recorded in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) so far, but the efforts by the authorities to prevent the disease, also known as 'atypical pneumonia'
Addressing a public talk about the situation in Tibet on 25 April in Oslo, Norway, Mrs. Kesang Y. Takla said that although the birthday of the Panchen Lama should be a happy occasion it was not so because of the sad reality of the plight of the Panchen Lama and his parents.
Nobel laureate Dalai Lama blesses a child during a meeting with Tibetan refugees in Guwahati on Monday. The Tibetan spiritual head, in the city on his way to the Tawang monastery in Arunachal Pradesh
On landing in China, George Fernandes is said to have received a "red carpet" welcome. Most analysts agree that it augurs well for the Sino-Indian relations. However, one question arises immediately: What does a grand reception in China really mean?
The 14th birthday of the 11th Panchen Lama, Gendhun Choekyi Nyima, was celebrated with sorrow in France saturday, mainly by the TSGs Etudiants pour un Tibet Libre, Solidarite Tibet, Communaute Tibetaine en France, Lions des Neiges and France-Tibet.
Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama rings a bell as he prays at the Kamakhya Temple in Gauhati, the capital of India's northeastern state of Assam, Monday, April 28, 2003.
Photo by Anupam Nath
An exhibition and sale of hand-knotted carpets coming to Timaru could represent a dying art. More than 50 traditionally crafted Tibetan carpets will be on display at the Landing Service Building from Friday.
