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An International Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies’ was opened on October 31 at the birth place of Heinrich Harrer, author of seven years in Tibet. Vice-Governor of the region of Kärnten, Members of Parliament, Mayor and various

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Tien Chiu-chin led a lineup of 20 Tibetans-in-exile in Taiwan and held a press conference yesterday prior to China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait Chairman Chen Yunlin's five-day cross-strait talks in Taiwa

Exiled Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Saturday met with a group of Chinese scholars in which the latter expressed wish that the Tibetan leader could visit Beijing and speak with Chinese leadership

An English daily in India and Jane's Intelligence Review recently reported that China had supplied weapons to anti-government groups in India's northeast,

His Holiness met with reporters from various news agencies on the second day of his Japan tour giving interviews to TV and fielding questions from the press. His Holiness reiterated his support for the Middle Way Approach which calls for

His Holiness the Dalai Lama's admission last week that he is losing hopes for a negotiated settlement with the People's Republic of China underlines the fact that even a learned religious practitioner's patience, no matter how profound, has its limits. Ongoing Sino-

An expected visit to France by His Holiness the Dalai Lama next month, during which the French government said he would meet President Nicolas Sarkozy, will not take place, French weekly

Three Tibetan monks were arrested recently by Chinese police for their alleged involvement in blast at a local power station in September, Radio free Asia reported.

The International Campaign for Tibet has said the situation at Kirti in Ngaba county is tense a month after the September 24 incident in which monks were severely beaten up. The Washington D.C. based NGO said

Rescuers had evacuated 1,892 people in the worst-hit counties of Lhunze and Tsona in Shannan district and were trying to reach some 250 people still trapped by heavy snowfall, the semi-official China News