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The Dalai Lama begins a two-week Ontario visit today in Ottawa, where his spiritual trip will take a decidedly political tone. But before leaving British Columbia yesterday, the smiling

Gedhun Choekyi Nyima is the youngest political prisoner in the world – that is, if he is still alive. Assuming that he has not been murdered, for nine lonely years, a young Tibetan boy has been held prisoner and indoctrinated at the hands of the Chinese government.

As Tibetan hunger strikers moved into their sixteenth day in front of the United Nations headquarters in New York, a small group of Bay Area residents turned out Saturday in downtown Berkeley to show their support by staging their own one-day strike.

Some 30 minutes into John Halpern's documentary film Refuge, one can't help but feel drawn toward Tibetan Buddhism amid the numerous images of westerners embracing the faith in spiritually adrift North America.

British Columbia's Lieutenant-Governor, Iona Campagnolo, publicly endorsed the cause of the Dalai Lama yesterday, praising his campaign for what she called "political and spiritual freedom" in Tibet.

The National Film Board of Canada is proceeding on ethical eggshells with a new documentary on Tibet scheduled to premiere next week during the Dalai Lama's stay in Toronto.

The three hunger strikers are on their eighteenth day with only couple of glasses of water to sustain their body. Their health condition deteriorating day by day, their determination never deterred.

On a day that saw further bloodshed in the Middle East, three Nobel Peace Prize winners brought together here Monday called for non-violent resolutions to world conflict.

Clutching prayer beads and waving Tibetan flags, approximately 25 Bay Area Tibetans and supporters gathered for a hunger strike in Berkeley Saturday morning joining similar hunger strikers in New York.

The Dalai Lama was one of three Nobel Peace Laureates given honourary doctorates on Monday at the University of British Columbia. The Dalai Lama, South African Bishop Desmond Tutu and Iranian human rights activist and feminist Shirin Ebadi all received the honours.