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A concert at the royal academy of performing arts (RAPA) featured a Tibetan musician and singer from Switzerland, Loten Namling. The concert received a house full attendance from both Bhutanese as well as Tibetans living here.

The Dalai Lama’s six-day visit to the hills is quickly filling up the coffers of the residents of Singamari, where the spiritual leader will deliver his discourses.

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Thousands thronged the streets of the town today to welcome the Nobel laureate, Dalai Lama, who is visiting Darjeeling after a decade. The milling crowd, which lined the streets of Kurseong, Sonada and Ghoom waiting to pay obeisance to the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists

Free Tibet Campaign activists wearing Chinese Army uniforms and face masks bearing the image of Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche highlight the case of this prominent Tibetan religious leader, who has been sentenced to death, with a protest at the Chinese Embassy in London. (All photos copyright Nick Cobbing/Free Tibet Campaign)

The Dalai Lama, exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, leaves a hotel in Bombay after a routine health check-up, during his visit, December 1, 2003. The Dalai Lama said last week that he was extremely eager to negotiate with China about the treatment of Tibet and was optimistic about the outcome even though Beijing remained suspicious. Photo by Roy Madhur

Nepal and China will open two new Himalayan trade crossings to boost the Hindu kingdom's trade with Tibet, Nepali officials said today. Agreement on the new crossings, one in eastern Nepal and the other in the west and which bring the total number of trading points to four

Even though Mongolia's influential neighbours China and Russia have not recently hosted Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso XIV or Pope John Paul II, Forum 18 News Service has found that in Mongolia they are welcome guests.

The National Democratic Party of Tibet has appealed to the Chinese authorities to commute the death sentence given to Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, a renowned Buddhist leader of Tibet. Rinpoche was sentenced to death on December 2, 2002 with two years reprieve.

The controversy surrounding the Rumtek monastery has deepened with a youth claiming that he is the "real incarnate" of the 16th Karmapa. Dawa Sangpo Dorje has requested Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama to allow him to prove his "supernatural power"