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Victoria's Tsewang Tethong will be among thousands of British Columbians packing into the Pacific Coliseum on Sunday to hear words of wisdom from the Dalai Lama. But the 69-year-old retiree is first looking forward to a private meeting with His Holiness

Swathed in vibrant red and yellow robes, Tibet's exiled leader told reporters Saturday that meeting Paul Martin in a spiritual context is "much better" than meeting the prime minister in a political setting.

The exiled spiritual leader of Tibet has arrived on Canadian soil for the first time in 11 years and is looking forward to meeting Prime Minister Paul Martin. ""If (Martin) asks me about the situation of Tibet, then certainly I will tell him," the Dalai Lama told reporters Saturday in Vancouver.

The Central Tibetan Administration will request the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) to call off its indefinite hunger strike, Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche, the Kalon Tripa told the VOT radio service.

In what was seen as a display of China's power and influence in global politics, a resolution on human rights situation in China at the 60th session of the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights (UNHCHR) in Geneva was turned down.

The Dalai Lama sat before a group of rapt business leaders at UC Irvine on Friday, offering simple homilies to people who treated the Nobel Peace Prize winner's words as spiritual gold.

Victor Chan was a self-confessed, 20-something "Chinese hippie" making his way across Asia in a Volkswagen van when he tagged along with a girlfriend to meet the Dalai Lama in the northern Indian village the Buddhist monk called home.

Some nations excite our imagination by the magnificence of their landscape, the splendour of their culture or even their sheer remoteness. Other nations trouble our conscience like an open wound. Only Tibet does both.

In what may turn out to be the light at the end of the tunnel, Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche, the Kalon Tripa said he expects a response from China within the next 2 weeks to his administration's request to 'discuss the matter of beginning the actual process of negotiations'.

Expat Tibetans are busily anticipating the imminent Canadian visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who arrives April 24. Monks are praying in their South Shore temple, other Tibetans are preparing thousands of momos - traditional Tibetan chow