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A bus service linking Kathmandu with Lhasa in China's Tibet Autonomous Region will start from May, reports Xinhua. "We are all set to begin a weekly direct bus services between Kathmandu and Lhasa from May 1," Radio Nepal quoted Mukunda Raj Satyal

With most countries and international institutions denouncing the royal coup and demanding a return to democratic rule, the question doing the rounds in Kathmandu is: Who is backing King Gyanendra in this fool-hardy attempt?

South Africa: The following is an article that appeared in a national newspaper and Renato Palmi’s response to the article.

Forty-six years ago the Dalai Lama left Tibet and went into exile with over 100,000 of his Tibetan compatriots. Four years ago the Chinese government and the Tibetan community in exile began official talks.

When the West is sanctimonious about the Chinese takeover of Tibet, it deliberately forgets the first invasion of that country by the British in 1903-04.

Chinese President Hu Jintao underscored Communist Party support on Thursday for the boy Beijing recognises as Tibet's second-most important religious figure despite a different choice by the Dalai Lama.

Chinese President Hu Jintao met Thursday with the boy picked by Beijing as the reincarnation of the Panchen Lama the second-highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism in a pomp-filled ceremony broadcast on state television.

Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Gaden Shartse Monastery will present an evening of cultural performances featuring traditional dances, chanting and monastic debate Friday at 7 p.m. at the Coconino Center for the Arts, 2300 N. Fort Valley Road.

At a special luncheon hosted by His Holiness the Dalai Lama for heads of the Tibetan Buddhist traditions and some senior lamas in Bodh Gaya on 25 January, Kalon Tripa Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche gave a detailed briefing on the current state of discussions

Who remembers the Panchsheel Agreement? Some might imagine some lofty dharmic principles enunciated by Nehru and the Chinese, who later in 1962 treacherously "stabbed us in the back."