The 19 Tibetans detained near the Nepal-Tibet border on June 24, 2003 have arrived in Kathmandu on July 1 and were handed over to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) office, it is learnt.
Tibet activists must realise that further strangling Nepal’s near-dead economy will not encourage positive change on the part of the kingdom’s policy makers. Never mind the Maoist insurgency, every politically correct tourist now has a new reason to avoid Nepal.
In its anxiety to further improve relations with China and to wean Beijing away from Islamabad, has the government of India taken the first step towards writing off the Dalai Lama and the Tibetans and abandoning any role by India in
Drinking yak-butter tea in the Himalayas is a natural high, writes James Elam. Yak's butter mixed with boiling water and salt. It sounds disgusting, but it's strange how tastes can change at 5000 metres above sea level.
On the 6th July, across the globe and in South Africa supporters of the Tibetan non - violent freedom struggle will be celebrating the 68th birthday of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual and temporal leader.
Four days after reserving its comments, the Congress has endorsed the position Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee adopted on Tibet and Sikkim during his China trip last week. "We have studied the India-China joint declaration in some detail.
A Nepalese news agency has said that the 19 Tibetans who were detained at the border as they were trying to enter Nepal from Tibet on June 24, 2003 have now been handed over to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) office.
