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Dalai Lama Begins Canadian Tour: The Dalai Lama greets well-wishers as he arrives in Vancouver yesterday for a 19-day visit to Canada. The exiled spiritual leader of Tibet will meet with Prime Minister Paul Martin this week in Ottawa.

Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, is on a visit to Canada during which he will meet with Prime Minister Paul Martin. In Vancouver Saturday the Dalai Lama discussed relations between the People's Republic of China and his Tibetan homeland.

Mr. Craig G. Mokhiber, Deputy Director of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights officially visited the Hunger Strikers and expressed his concerns and commitment for the hunger strike movement.

The Peace Ride for Tibet’s Independence has been progressing quite well since its inception last Saturday. At this point, the riders have completed about 200 miles, with 400 miles left to go. They will finish the bike ride next Saturday.

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.