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The TYC led Indefinite Hunger Strikers are on the twelveth consecutive days with their demands. Despite the heavy shower and wind, the three hunger strikers and more than three hundred supporters and well wishers assembled at the Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, in front of the United Nations Headquarter, New York.

For the last 12 days, three young Tibetans are on indefinite hungerstrike in front of United nation's headquarter in New York and their health condition is deteriorating day by day.

It is Day #9 of Tibetan pro-freedom campaigners putting their lives on the line, in support of their quite-reasonable demands for justice in the cause of Tibet, which is occupied by Communist China.

ICT Board Chairman Richard Gere and Ambassador Sichan Siv, the U.S. Representative to the UN Economic and Social Council, met this morning with three Tibetans on the morning of Tuesday, April 13, the 12th day of their hunger strike for UN action on Tibet.

Considering its own unity struggles with separatist Quebec governments, Ottawa should know better than to encourage the Dalai Lama - an Asian separatist, the Chinese government charged Tuesday.

The Lower Mainland arts community is preparing to celebrate the four-day visit of the Dalai Lama, who arrives in Vancouver this Saturday. The spiritual and political leader of Tibet will be joined by two other Nobel Laureates during his stay.

Ten years ago, the world witnessed the startling spectacle of maroon-robed Tibetan monks - those tribunes of inner peace and outer compassion - hurling stones, soda bottles and curses at each other at the gates of a Buddhist institute in New Delhi.

After weeks of dithering, Prime Minister Paul Martin's office announced yesterday that he will meet the Dalai Lama in Ottawa next week, blindsiding and upsetting both the Chinese embassy and the organizers of the exiled Tibetan leader's visit.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived in Los Angeles today from Tokyo. He was received at the airport by Representative Ngawang Rabgyal, US Diplomatic Security Agents Bill Maxwell, Mark Hartfield and Garth Pettijohn, and others.

Paul Martin will become the first Canadian prime minister to meet with the Dalai Lama despite protests from trade dynamo China. Martin has decided to meet the Nobel prize winner next week when the Tibetan spiritual leader visits Canada.