News

Asia's two fastest-growing economies -- India and China -- are likely to continue edging closer in 2004 through recently improved diplomatic, defense and economic ties.

Buddhist spiritual leader the 17th Karmapa Lama Ugyen Thrinley Dorje on Wednesday prayed for world peace at a ten-day prayer ceremony of his sect in Bodhgaya.

Recent reports from Tibet indicate that an increasing number of Tibetan women from rural areas, particularly in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), are working as prostitutes.

Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) is organizing the Tibetan Youth Leadership Training Program from 2nd January 2004-6th January 2004 at Dickyi Larsoe Tibetan Settlement, Bylakuppe, South India.

Liaowang Xizang, the Chinese-language journal published from Washington, D.C., has discussed the changing perception of the Dalai Lama in the Chinese community, in its latest issue (Issue # 5), mailed to subscribers in December 2003.

Forget about luggage-laden guests, bellhops and martini-sipping barflies. This week at the Loews Annapolis Hotel, the main attraction was slightly out of the ordinary - a group of nine Tibetan monks and more than a million grains of sand.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama is scheduled to depart Dharamsala on January 2nd for an extended visit to Delhi, Chandragiri, Warora, Bhandara, Mainpat, & Sarnath.

Splendid China, the controversial theme park in Florida charged with spreading Chinese propaganda, has announced that it will close operations from December 31, 2003 citing "continued downturn in the tourism economy."

Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche, the Kalon Tripa of the Central Tibetan Administration, has been misquoted in a wire service story filed by the Press Trust of India from Panipat on 28 December 2003.

Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche, the Kalon Tripa of the exile Tibetan administration yesterday inaugurated a rural health proggramme called "Arogya Sewa" in Gadh Chiruli, a village near Nagpur, Maharasthra.