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Chinese authorities in Tibet have expelled the disciplinarian at a key monastery and detained one of its monks as part of what sources there describe as a broad crackdown on the Dalai Lama's supporters, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

Nepalese Police have arrested 42 Tibetans who were trying to enter India. Mostly passengers without documents, the Tibetans were arrested from Halchowk in Kathmandu

His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave an interview yesterday to Betty Lin, a journalist for Chinese language daily, the World Journal, published from New York.

The Dalai Lama has praised the Scottish Parliament as a model for Tibetan autonomy on a visit to the UK.

The Dalai Lama, leader of the Tibetan people, will be the guest of honour later this week in Edinburgh at the World Parliamentarians'

US lawmakers backed the Dalai Lama's drive to gain greater autonomy for Tibet and condemned alleged human rights abuses by Beijing in the Himalayan territory.

A Jew and a Tibetan stood on the same stage. They both have known the hardship of exile. They both are refugees. They both have had to learn to carry their culture with them, away from their homelands.

Chinese authorities in Tibet have begun a campaign to blacklist key religious figures close to the exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

As an expression of solidarity, members of the standing committee of the Assembly have donated two days' pay of their salary for the relief of quake victims in Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

President Bush, speaking days before a meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Beijing, called on the communist nation's leaders today to ease restrictions on free expression and religion, and cited Taiwan as a possible model.