The RTYC of New York and New Jersey, Student for a Free Tibet, Tibetan Women's Association and USTC held a rally against the Nepalese Government's decision on deporting 18 Tibetans to the Chinese Authority on Monday, June 2nd 2003.
Addressing a joint press briefing with the Danish Foreign Minister, Mr. Per Stig Moller, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs here, His Holiness the Dalai Lama said that his delegation's ongoing second visit to China looks like a good start and
Last week, a posse of mountaineers and heads-of-state gathered in Kathmandu for the 50th anniversary of a great triumph: the first ascent of Mount Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa.
Eighteen Tibetan asylum-seekers forcibly repatriated from Nepal have been unexpectedly detained at a remote Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) border area after two members of the group developed symptoms of the deadly SARS virus
You had planned to send a delegation to China to discuss how the differences between the Dalai Lama and the Chinese government can be solved and how his return to Tibet can be made possible. What happened to that plan?
Eighteen Tibetan asylum-seekers forcibly repatriated from Nepal are expected to arrive shortly at a holding center in Shigatse, in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, where they appear likely to face criminal charges, Radio Free Asia reports.
Tibetan spiritual leader The Dalai Lama, right, listens while Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller speaks Wednesday, June 4, 2003 in Copenhagen. The Dalai Lama, who is in town to give a series of teachings, said that talks with China are off to a good start. (AP Photo/John McConnico)
Talks between the Chinese government and representatives of the Tibetan government in exile are advancing, the Dalai Lama said Wednesday, adding that the main thrust was to build confidence between the two sides.
The standing Committee of ATPD is deeply disturbed by reports suggesting that 18 Tibetan asylum seekers in the custody of Nepalese police were forced onto Chinese Embassy vehicles and driven back to Tibet
Kelsang, 22, says that he left his monastery in Tibet after "Chinese officials asked us to denounce the revered Dalai Lama and introduced practices in our religion that were not acceptable to us".
