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A charity is today gearing up to welcome a group of 11 Tibetan refugee children who are set to get a whistlestop cultural tour of the UK.

Tibetans heading for Nepal and India on pilgrimage from Karze have been asked to return home after the authorities in Lhasa took back their travel permits, sources say.

Tibetans have over the past several weeks responded to the Tsunami victims through different humanitarian actions to express their deep concern and support.

Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin on Friday called on the Chinese Embassy to explain the withdrawal of travel visas for two Canadian citizens accompanying his trade mission to Beijing and Hong Kong next week.

The charity show organized by Tibetan Youth Congress was the latest in the line of solidarity gestures by the Tibetan refugees for the Indians in their hour of loss and pain. The devastating Tsunami waves killed thousands of people in India’s southern parts.

It was altogether a different experience for the tsunami survivors in Nagapattinam district when a team of Tibetan monks arrived at the devastated town on Pongal (harvest festival of Tamil Nadu) and toured the affected parts consoling the victims.

Despite its busy schedule and hectic engagements in the relay hunger strikes all over India, the Tibetan Youth Congress, the largest non-governmental organisation of the Tibetan diaspora, has moved away for a while from political activism to charity.

After revival of ties with Beijing in 2002 and the three subsequent visits of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's envoys to China and areas of Tibet in the following years, the Central Tibetan Administration has geared up its efforts, as guided by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile Samdhong Rinpoche today said India's rich ideological and spiritual heritage was its inherent power which could help lead and guide the entire world.

Tibetan Community of France in coordination with some French Tibet Support groups staged a rally of the candle lights near the Chinese Ambassy in Paris, for the release of Ven Tulku Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, who has been sentenced to the death penalty by Chinese authority for his social service contributing works in Tibet.