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Pope John Paul II talks with the Dalai Lama during an audience at the Vatican, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2003. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano)

Pope John Paul II received the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, in an audience Thursday that the Vatican kept extremely low-key to avoid a further chill in its icy relations with China.

US President George W Bush has offered his strong support to Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and his efforts to initiate a dialogue with the Chinese government. White House officials outlined Mr Bush's

The Dalai Lama says he is extremely eager to negotiate with China about the treatment of Tibet and is optimistic about the outcome even though Beijing remains suspicious.

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Khentse Norbu showed moviegoers the passion of Tibetan monks for football with bits of humour and sentiments intertwined in The Cup at a time when the world was slowly recovering from the 1998 world cup fever.

The European Union should demand clear progress on human rights from China during their bilateral human rights dialogue this week, Human Rights Watch urged today in an open letter. The meeting is scheduled for November 27-28 in Beijing.

The Nepalese authorities have released nine Tibetans who crossed the border from China without travel documents two years ago after an overseas Tibetan organization provided money for their fines, RFA's Tibetan service reports.

Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, on Wednesday encouraged the international community to "make good friends" with China, saying it would be the best way to help the Tibetan cause. Asked at a news conference in Rome

The Dalai Lama chuckles as hr answers questions at a news conference in Rome, Wednesday Nov. 26, 2003. The Dalai Lama is in Italy at the invitation of a bipartisan inter-parliamentary group, which last month pushed through a resolution in parliament's lower chamber calling for the Italian government to take all possible initiatives to resolve the Tibet dispute. (AP Photo/Corrado Giambalvo)