News

A group of federal MPs is planning to protest against China's treatment of neighbouring Tibet when Chinese President Hu Jintao visits Canberra next Friday.

Lhasa has been transformed in recent years

It is just after dawn in the Lhasa valley and tens of thousands of Tibetan pilgrims are streaming up a mountainside. Many have walked for days, even weeks to be here.

The Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, looks skyward as he adjusts his garment before a news conference at a Paris hotel, October 13, 2003. (REUTERS/John Schults)

Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Wednesday advised believers from other religions against converting to Buddhism.

Dr. Vaclav Havel, the former president of the Czech Republic, will inaugurate the fourth International Conference of Tibet Support Groups to be held in Prague from 19-21 October 2003 in the presence of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the president

Custom officials and police have smashed the largest case of illegal fur smuggling in Tibet in more than half a century, the Chinese state news agency says.

Construction on the 3,345-meter Yangbajain No. 1 tunnel on the Qinghai-Tibet railway was completed Sunday in the Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China.

Eleven & twenty three of two group Tibetan refugees arrested in this week at delduldura and Birganj (border with India) for illegally entering Nepal were sent to Tibetan Refugee reception center through the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Kathmandu, today.

The parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration has expressed deep regret and shock over the sad demise of Nyima Drakpa, a political prisoner, after suffering extreme tortures at the hands of Chinese authorities.