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Tibetan monks have arrived in western Nevada County for their annual visit to raise awareness of their political and religious plight after being exiled by Communist China from Tibet in the 1960s.

Speakers at a gathering of Tibetan students in the city on Sunday called upon the people to realise the serious threat posed by China after illegally occupying Tibet.

This is the last day of our cycle rally from Vijayawada to Hyderabad. We halted our 6th-day night at the green lodge where many of the Tibetan sweater sellers are residing.

The day started with the same routine we have been following since the day first at around 9 in the morning. We resumed our rally from the town named Jangaon and after cycling for about 18 kms we rested to quench our thirst

The Fourth World Social Forum opened at NESCO grounds yesterday. The delegation from Dharamsala comprising of more than fiftyTibetans were earlier joined by hundreds of others from the southern Tibetan settlements and Tibetan market in Mumbai.

Exiled Tibetans in India have said their struggle for freedom would continue but through peaceful means. A delegation of over a 100 Tibetan activists revived the demand at the ongoing World Social Forum in Mumbai

Authorities in China have banned followers of a prominent Tibetan Buddhist lama from traveling to his monastery to pay their last respects after Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok's sudden death after heart surgery, RFA’s Tibetan service reports.

Members of the British House of Commons, belonging to the ruling Labour Party as well as the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democratic Party, have urged Prime Minister Tony Blair to meet with the Dalai Lama when he visits London in May-June this year.

The Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibet's Buddhists and internationally acclaimed as an advocate for global peace and harmony, will be celebrated in three Canadian cities this spring while the government of the world's most populous nation fumes.

Sonam fled Tibet for Nepal so that she could freely practise her religion and become a Buddhist nun. In Nepal she joined a convent, but then abruptly left it because she feared authorities would send her back to Tibet.