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Hundreds of Tibetans, including monks, nuns and students, along with their foreign supporters, took out a protest march here today. They were demanding the release of the 11th Panchen Lama who turned 15 today.

The local Tibetan community brought out a candle-light rally this evening to express solidarity with three young Tibetans who are on an indefinite hunger-strike in front of the UN Headquarters, New York, for the last 23 days.

Make no mistake, this is genocide-the planned, systematic destruction of a people and the occupation of their lands. That's what the giant communist police state of China is inflicting on six million Tibetans and their majestically beautiful mountain nation.

Fearing reprisals by the Chinese government against the participants in a new documentary about Tibet, Canadian film officials will take extraordinary security measures when the movie makes its world premiere in Toronto Tuesday.

About 1,000 supporters of the Dalai Lama welcomed him outside Toronto's Fairmont Royal York hotel yesterday, waving Tibetan flags, ceremonial scarves, banners, burning incense, applauding and crying out in unison: "Dalai Lama, Dalai Lama."

Around forty Tibetans staged a solidarity hunger strike and rally in downtown Berkeley in California as three Tibetan youth entered their 22nd day of indefinite hunger strike before the UN building in New York.

Taiwan's non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are lending a hand to improve public health conditions among the Tibetan diaspora in India, though much remains to be done, according to the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission (MTAC).

By rights, Tibetan Buddhism should have faded like the dying light in a thousand butter lamps before a thousand knowing Buddhas. But something extraordinary happened after the Dalai Lama rode a mountain pony into exile in 1959, disguised as a soldier

A crowd of about 600 supporters, many dressed in traditional Tibetan dress, greeted the Dalai Lama with songs and dancing when he arrived in Toronto Saturday afternoon. He's expected to speak to 5,000 faithful at the city's Sky Dome Sunday.

Canada's peaceful experience with referendums on its future has set an example for the world on successful political dissent, says the Dalai Lama. Two votes on the future of Quebec in Canada that proceeded without violence have shown how a mature democracy can cope with change