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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.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be the guest of honour at the Fourth World Parliamentarians Convention on Tibet, when it convenes in Edinburgh later this week (18-19 November).

Tibet's exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, made a first public appearance with recently exiled Uyghur dissident Rebiya Kadeer, greeting her on stage in front of some 16,000 people at the U.S capital's MCI Center.

Rule of law is indispensable to the progress of democracy in any community, said Kalon Tripa Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche, adding that the democratization of the exile Tibetan polity

Early research suggests that daily meditation can alter the physical structure of the brain and may even slow brain deterioration related to aging

It's known as the "Great Firewall of China" to the rest of the world, but to the Chinese government it's the "Golden Shield". China's internet filtering system, the most sophisticated and extensive in the world according to a recent report by Harvard Law School, is in the front line