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The Dalai Lama, leader of Tibetan Buddhism, is coming to South Florida for a half-week of teachings, officials of two universities announced Thursday.

Chinese police and local authorities in Tibet near the Nepal border are colluding with local Tibetan and Chinese entrepreneurs in recruiting Tibetan girls and women to work as escorts, barmaids, and prostitutes, RFA’s Tibetan service reports.

The Chinese government has vowed to address human rights abuses in the country, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern claimed today. Mr Ahern told the Dáil Chinese premier Wen Jiabao assured him his Government would engage in European Union dialogue on the issue in a constructive and meaningful way.

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), in its annual report on the status of religious freedom worldwide, has said that the Chinese government retains tight control over religious activity and places of worship in Tibet.

Columbia University recently announced that it is establishing the world's first chair in modern Tibetan studies. The Leila Hadley Luce Professorship is made possible by a $3 million award from the Henry Luce Foundation.

A talented teenage singer has been given the responsibility of welcoming the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, when he arrives in Scotland at the end of this month.

"Remembering Tibet" by Green River artist Angi Bennett is showing in the gallery at White Mountain Library in May. The exhibit moves to Sweetwater County Library in June for one month.

Global warming may cost China two thirds of its glaciers by mid-century, putting 300 million people at risk, state media reports.

At a modest function here, Mr. Pema Jungney, the Chairman of the Assembly of the Tibetan People's Deputies (ATPD), Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche, the Kalon Tripa and Dr. Anne Ahonen, Counsellor at the Finnish Embassy in New Delhi

The Dalai Lama will visit Britain later this month on the heels of a summit in London between the Chinese and British premiers, the exiled Tibetan leader's office said.