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Seven teenage Tibetan boys have been detained in northwest China after graffiti calling for the Dalai Lama's return was found scribbled on walls, a human rights watchdog said on Thursday. Police Refuse to allow beaten boy to go to hospital

It raised the case of a 17-year-old Tibetan nun who was apparently killed by Chinese guards as she tried to cross into Nepal. China has been accused of attacking Tibetan Buddhism — the foundation of most Tibetans'

While Beijing hopes the feat will impress the world, groups critical of China's often harsh 57-year rule over Tibet have decried the torch route as a stunt meant to lend legitimacy to Chinese control.

The 33-year-old Buddhist lama, or teacher, heads a monastery in India and is said by some to be the reincarnation of a renowned Tibetan yogi. His first film, "Milarepa: Magician, Murderer, Saint" brings to life the tale of Jetsun Milarepa

"We're also hoping to make people aware of the situation in Tibet." There are times when Jampa Tenzin, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, misses his home in India. Tenzin, a member of the Drepung Gomang Monastery in South India

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to raise the ire of Chinese officials next month when he meets with the Dalai Lama. Leaders of Tibet's independence movement in Canada say they hope that the expected meeting between

In the run-up to the Dalai Lama's first visit to the German Chancellery, China has said it disapproves of politicians meeting with the Tibetan religious leader and called for Chancellor Merkel to cancel

Tibet activist and National Coordinator of Friends of Tibet (FOT), Mr CA Kallianpur has returned safe home in Mumbai this morning after he went missing for more than a week.

Eight years after he provoked an international incident by raising the Tibetan National Flag at City Hall, St. John's Mayor Andy Wells will fly it again next month when the Dalai Lama visits Canada. The Dalai Lama is visiting Ottawa Oct. 28 at the invitation of the Parliamentary Friends of Tibet, an all-party group of senators and MPs. The exiled Tibetan leader will also give a public address, which Wells will attend, and meet with Prime Minister Stephen Harper.(Phayul) Photo: A Tibetan flag, left, flies over City Hall in St. John's, Newfoundland by order of the Mayor Andy Wells to protest the visit of Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, to the city April 14, 1999. Wells took down the flag after complaints from the provincial and the federal governments that the Chinese delegation threatened to cancel their visit. (Paul Daly/REUTERS)

The outspoken mayor of St. John's is pledging to fly the flag of Tibet at city hall in October, knowing that a similar action eight years ago sparked an international furor.