Dr. Vaclav Havel, the former president of the Czech Republic, will inaugurate the fourth International Conference of Tibet Support Groups to be held in Prague from 19-21 October 2003 in the presence of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the president
Ceremony for the first Tibetan Music Awards ended Saturday amid much fanfare and jubilations. A major attraction of the 4th Free Spirit Festival, the music award is aimed at encouraging the budding artistes of the Tibetan community and giving them the due recognition for their work
Construction on the 3,345-meter Yangbajain No. 1 tunnel on the Qinghai-Tibet railway was completed Sunday in the Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China.
Eleven & twenty three of two group Tibetan refugees arrested in this week at delduldura and Birganj (border with India) for illegally entering Nepal were sent to Tibetan Refugee reception center through the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Kathmandu, today.
The parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration has expressed deep regret and shock over the sad demise of Nyima Drakpa, a political prisoner, after suffering extreme tortures at the hands of Chinese authorities.
The Chinese government called on the European Union (news - web sites) to lift a ban on arms sales to China which has been in place since the Tiananmen Square massacre 14 years ago, state media reported.
The council will foot the £16,500 bill for the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama’s visit to the Capital. The Nobel Peace Prize winner is to visit Edinburgh in June next year.
The exiled Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama, greets photographers as he poses in the courtyard of the George V hotel in Paris, Monday, Oct. 13, 2003. The Dalai Lama is proposing that world luminaries such as former Czech President Vaclav Havel and Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu join forces to defuse crises such as the turmoil in Iraq. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
The Dalai Lama is calling on respected world figures to join forces and intervene in major disputes. The exiled Tibetan leader says luminaries such as former Czech President Vaclav Havel and Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu
