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Aspen Filmfest patrons may be surprised to see security guards with wands and night-vision goggles checking out the crowd in the darkened theater early next month.

Huaneng Group, parent of China's top independent power producer, has signed an agreement with the Tibetan regional government to build hydroelectric power plants in the area, the company said on Monday.

A Nobel Peace Prize winner, spiritual leader, best-selling author and government leader-in-exile will come to campus in six days. His Holiness the Dalai Lama will speak Sunday at Rutgers Stadium, delivering the lecture "Peace, War and Reconciliation."

His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama -- Tenzin Gyatso to those who knew him at his birth -- is making his fourth trip to New Jersey since 1979, this time to visit Rutgers University in New Brunswick on Sept. 25, where he will deliver an address on "Peace, War

Buddha nursed other monks. Once, the story goes, he found a sick monk whose robe stuck to his body with the pus oozing from his sores. Repulsed, his fellow monks had abandoned him.

The end of Chinese President Hu Jintao's landmark North American tour was marked by protests in Vancouver on Canada's west coast, much like it started nine days earlier.

Chinese security forces must immediately release Sonam, a monk from the Potala Palace in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, Human Rights Watch said.

Tibetans living-in-exile in Dharamsala are engaged in attending a workshop here to make their youth aware of democracy and parliamentary system of government.

Activists from Free Tibet Campaign and Students for a Free Tibet UK today protested against Bombardier's support of cultural genocide in Tibet at the Infrarail 2005 Exhibition in Manchester.

Undeterred by the heavy and continuous rain, as many as 200 Tibet supporters in New Delhi attended a seminar organised by the India Tibet Coordination Office on the "Middle Way Approach: The Solution for the Question of Tibet" at the India International Centre's Auditorium.