At least 17 workers were buried and are presumed dead in a landslide on the Sichuan-Tibet highway, a major road that connects southwestern China with the Himalayan plateau, state media reported on Friday.
According to a UNESCO press release on 10 July 2003, Fifteen new sites in 10 countries have been added to UNESCO's World Network of Biosphere Reserves, including the first members of the network in Slovenia and Yemen.
One can sense the anger rising inside the hall as the green uniformed Chinese officer beats the Tibetan prisoner. The next moment, in another scene, a deafening silence prevails which was occasionally disrupted by the stifling cry of the ladies in one corner.
"Henceforth, the Planning Council will be referred to as the Planning Commission and the office of Planning Council as the office of Planning Commission....... ", the Health and Finance Kalon Lobsang Nyandak read out the
Since the Chinese first occupied Tibet in 1951, social activists around the world have been petitioning the world's leaders to pressure China into freeing the tiny Asian country high in the Himalayas.
Dear Fellow Tibetans and Friends in North America: Tashi Delek! I would like to wish all of you a wonderful celebration, as we celebrate the 68th birthday of our beloved spiritual and temporal leader, His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet.
Many Americans have never seen anything like this and many American followers of Buddhism can't remember a ceremony of this kind, being held in the United States. But it was held Wednesday in Cottage Grove, about 25 miles south of Eugene.
