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Protesters chant on Park Avenue outside the Waldorf Astoria hotel awaiting for the arrival of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in New York, December 7, 2003, with a sign protesting the treatment of people in Taiwan and Tibet. Wen met United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan today, before departing for talks in Washington D.C. where he will seek reassurances the U.S. will rein in rival Taiwan. (REUTERS/Chip East)

Tibetans and supporters greeted China’s new Premier, Wen Jiabao, with noisy protests today as he arrived in New York for his first official visit to North America. Wen is the highest-ranking Chinese official to visit the United States since the leadership changeover in Beijing earlier this year.

No one turned out victorious in what seemed a one-man v/s the government legal battle which did not even reach the battlefield. Dawa Gyaltsen, who earlier filed a legal suit against Jadur Sangpo, the Tibetan Supreme Justice Commissioner in Simla High Court

Ajai Singh Mankotia President Indo-Tibetan Friendship Association addressing the media persons. (Prem Sood/Phayul)

The Indo-Tibetan Friendship Association, Dharamsala, will hold a three-day “Ninth Himalayan International Festival” here at the backyard of Hotel Bhagsu, Mcloed Ganj, from 10 to 12 December. The annual festival, opening on the day of conferment of Nobel Peace Prize to His Holiness

Awareness program started under the title "Tibet & India's Security" organised by the Tibetan Youth Congress covered Kerala and Mangalore after the Dharwad Karnataka University with different types of program in different areas.

Yeshe Togden, President of the Gu Chu Sum

Yeshe Togden, President of the Gu Chu Sum Movement of Tibet, and Ngawang Kyonmey spoke today at Cambridge University, on the second day of a UK-wide tour for Students for A Free Tibet- UK.

The Dalai Lama speaks with Toronto Star reporter Martin Regg Cohn at a heavily guarded hilltop residence in northern India. The Buddhist monk has recently restarted a dialogue with Beijing after a decade-long estrangement. (ANGUS MCDONALD FOR THE TORONTO STAR)

Before answering any questions, His Holiness fires off one of his own: "Is it true you have recently been to Tibet — without a Chinese escort?"