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Upset at media reports that a large number of Tibetan refugees living in Nepal would be resettled in the US, China is sending an envoy here to thrash out the issue. China's Vice Foreign Minister Wu Daewi arrives in Kathmandu

Talks between Beijing and envoys of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader, have made "no substantial progress," the chairman of Tibet's government said Tuesday. Champa Phuntsok blamed the Dalai Lama for the lack of success in several rounds of

A delegation of the Buddhist association of Kalmykia will not take part in the ongoing World Summit of Religious Leaders in Moscow because the association's administration is preparing for a possible visit by the Dalai-Lama to the republic, the association's leader

Santoor maestro Shiv Kumar Sharma's son Rahul will be going to Hollywood. The young santoor player will be composing the music for an international fivepart documentary-cum-television series based on the life and teachings of the Dalai Lama

The government is reportedly working to send 5,000 Tibetan refugees to United States on humanitarian grounds, a Member of Parliament revealed at the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs and Human Rights Committee

Naydup Gyatse, chief of this settlement on the grasslands of the high Tibetan plain, does not know the name of China's president. Nor does he want to. On the map, this land is part of China's Sichuan province. But to the 300 people who live here, it is part of greater Tibet

The first train from Beijing to Tibet, speeding past thousands of soldiers and policemen in camps and convoys, gave a rare glimpse into China's massive program of military control over the Tibetan plateau. Green-uniformed soldiers of the People's Liberation Army, along with police

'Conlicts', a one-day film festival, will be held here on July 6 to mark the 'World Tibet Day' and the 71st birthday of Dalai Lama. The festival, being organised by Friends of Tibet, Design & People and Kashi, will screen both feature and documentary films on various

After rolling under snow-covered peaks and crossing 2,500 miles, the first train to travel from Beijing to Tibet pulled into a station here Monday, inaugurating the world's highest railway and opening a new chapter in China's relentless assimilation of this once-remote mountain

Two persons have become critical since the launch of indefinite hunger strike in Delhi's Tihar Jail by the Tibetan Youth Congress members. The strike began June 29 when the TYC general secretary Mr. Tsultrim announced it from the prison. Gyaltsen, a 20-yr-old man from Manali chapter of TYC has become