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Tibet Campaigners are deeply disappointed at the UK Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw's comments today to a House of Commons committee scrutinising arms control, that to "lump" China with Burma and Zimbabwe was "not appropriate" in the maintenance of an EU arms embargo.

The EU embargo on arms exports to China is likely to be lifted in the next six months despite US objections, UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has said.

When Hu Jintao became head of China's ruling Communist Party in late 2002, the question on everyone's lips was "Who is Hu?"

Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche, the Kalon Tripa of the Central Tibetan Administration left today on a twenty five day official tour to Una, Delhi, Bangkok, Chennai, Bodhgaya, Mumbai and Pune.

Chinese authorities have arrested a Tibetan monk and tightened security in a traditionally Tibetan part of Sichuan Province after a fire they suspect was the work of separatists opposed to Chinese rule, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

True to the dictum, "Crisis sort the friend or foe", When Tibet reeled under the worst period of its history following the Chinese occupation, India provided support and sanctuary to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and thousands of his followers.

A small Canadian Buddhist congregation has sold one of its temples to raise money for Asian tsunami victims.

China is planning to build a world-class observatory on the "roof of the world" -- in the southwestern Tibet Autonomous Region, the state media reported today.

The Dalai Lama will deliver a lecture on war, peace and reconciliation at Rutgers University this fall in his first public appearance before a mass audience in New Jersey, school officials said yesterday.

The Western Route Transfer Project, or simply "the Western Route," is the most expensive and difficult route of the worlds longest and most ambitious water transfer project - South-North Water Diversion Project.