Encountering the Gyuto Tibetan monk culture yesterday left Shepparton Catholic school students speechless. Notre Dame College and St Brendan's Primary School students silently watched with fascination as the monks
Assistant Foreign Minister Shen Guofang (R) and Deputy Secretary of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Geoff Raby pose before a press conference yesterday in Beijing. [newsphoto.com.cn]
The seventh annual Sino-Australian human-rights dialogue was held Monday in Beijing. "The dialogue was positive, constructive and fruitful,'' said Assistant Foreign Minister Shen Guofang, who led the Chinese delegation.
India's Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal visited the Kingdom of Bhutan from July 22 to 24, 2003 to brief the Bhutanese King and leaders on the recent talks between Indian Prime Minister Vajpayee and Chinese leaders.
Official and unofficial reports from Tibet describe how dozens of nomadic and farming families are in the process of being moved out from their traditional land in the east of Chamdo prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region
Three Chinese who have been arrested or persecuted for their writings about China have been awarded the prestigious Hellman/Hammett grant, a US-based rights group said Tuesday.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (CIRF) has called upon the United States to focus serious attention on the plight of Tibetan Buddhists and to make religious freedom a priority in U.S. foreign policy.
Heavy monsoon rains have damaged roads in Dharamsala town in hilly Himachal Pradesh, causing hardships to the tourists. Nestled in the Dhauladhar Himalayan ranges, Dharamsala, the home of Tibetan spiritual head the Dalai Lama
The Kalon Tripa of the Central Tibetan Administration has returned to Dharamsala after a successful tour of two of the Tibetan settlements in Central India. In what seem to have been a follow up his earlier visits to the Tibetan
