The European Commission has said that ensuring genuine autonomy to Tibet by encouraging China and the Dalai Lama to strengthen their ongoing contact through mutually acceptable solution would be one of their political priorities.
The Dalai Lama, center, is joined by actor Richard Gere, left, and composer Philip Glass at a news coference at New York's Guggenheim Museum, Tuesday Sept. 16, 2003. The exiled Tibetan leader will teach for four days in New York, including a free lecture in Central Park. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
The Dalai Lama said Tuesday he felt ``extremely sad'' when his plane landed in New York and he saw where the towers of the World Trade Center once stood, but he urged people to turn the tragedy into something positive.
A renovation project to repair a collapsed wall at the famed Potala Palace in Tibet finally started yesterday. Part of the front wall at the Potala Palace in Lhasa collapsed in August 2001 after rain water caused severe erosion at the site.
Karen McLinton, from Jersey, is visiting Montreal during her cycling tour around the world. She undertook the trip to fight chronic fatigue syndrome, and also is drawing attention to plight of Tibetans. (MARCOS TOWNSEND, GAZETTE)
She suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome, but Karen McLinton isn't letting it dash her dream of bicycling around the world. And since embarking on her trip two years ago, the native of the British isle of Jersey has added a mission to her journey - raising awareness of human rights abuses in Tibet.
Clad in a traditional dress and striped apron, a Tibetan woman stirs stewing coils of wool with a pole then hoists them from the steel vat in which they have been dyed a deep red.
Tightening bolts one by one, Chinese workers build a bridge to span the Lhasa River -- just north of the famed Potala Palace. It is part of the Tibet to Qinghai Railway that will link Tibet's isolated hinterland with China's booming heartland.
Lights, Camera, Tashi Delek. He is famous for his fast moves in those fight sequels in Hollywood and Chinese movies. Mel Gibson could not stop himslef from appreciating the pace of this short statured Asian star in the movie, Lethal Weapon IV.
