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Envoys of the Dalai Lama will soon make their fourth trip to China, according to his Special Envoy in Washington Lodi Gyari.

The first direct passenger bus plying from Nepal's capital Kathmandu to Lhasa City of Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region arrived in Lhasa Wednesday afternoon after four-day journey with some ceremonies from the two sides.

The Election Commission of the Central Tibetan Administration began a two-day workshop of all the regional election commissions today at the Gangchen Kyishong staff mess.

A week-long event to create awareness on Tibet, it history, culture and philosophy concluded successfully yesterday in Concepcion, the second largest city of Chile.

At the initiative of the teachers of St.Croix college and France-Tibet support group in Orleans, a musical event of traditional and classical concert took place in the packed hall of the church of Ste.Croix.

Chief Minister N Dharam Singh on Monday summoned top Police and Home Department officials to discuss the issue of security breach during Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit here by a Tibetan youth.

"We strongly support His Holiness' Middle-Way Approach. And this is no lip-allegiance. Whenever we meet Chinese leaders we always raise the fact that His Holiness is genuinely committed to peacefully resolve the issue of Tibet through negotiation"

Mr. Tsering Dorjee, a former secretary in the Central Tibetan Administration, has been appointed the secretary of the Tibetan Supreme Justice Commission. He was sworn in on 27 April 2005.

Sociologist Renuka Singh of Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University recently described the Dalai Lama as 'Avalokiteshvara' - the embodiment of compassion in the present era.

Nayan Prakash Subba profiles Sarat Chandra Das, Darjeeling's very own British secret agent, who donned a Lama's disguise to travel into inhospitable terrain and became a pioneer explorer and an emissary of ancient wisdom and culture