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Nepalese immigration authorities are currently refusing to issue transit permits for a group of Tibetan refugees to travel to India. Of the hundred or so new arrivals now at the Tibetan Refugee Reception Centre in Kathmandu

The Canada Tibet Committee Toronto (CTC) and Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) chapter at the University of Toronto will host a talk by monks from the historic Tashi Lhunpo monastery in Tibet.

Foreign Secretary Madhu Raman Acharya leaves for Washington Friday for bilateral talks amid requests by the United States to contribute Nepali troops to an international force in Iraq.

On July 11, Tserang Dondrup (also known as Jortse) was reportedly released after a year in custody. According to local reports, he is in poor health, cannot walk or see and "his hands were not working." His speech is also reportedly unintelligible.

A group of Tibetan Buddhist monks from a Minneapolis monastery will be holding a three-hour introduction to their philosophy and a chanting session this Sunday at Potter's Farm west of Washburn.

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Gyalo Thondup, brother of the Dalai Lama and a former chairman of the Tibetan Cabinet in Dharamsala, has said that visits of the envoys of the Dalai Lama are positive, but that China should know that it is a two-way traffic in terms of confidence building.

Mr Everest is king of the Himalayan-Tibet Collision Zone

About 50 million years ago, India collided with Asia producing the high Himalayas and Tibetan plateau, a natural laboratory for studying continental collision. During the collision, the Indian lithosphere was dragged down beneath the

Prayer flags are hung for missing relatives at the site of a landslide in Danba county in the Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Garze, in southwest China's Sichuan Province. More than 50 people are missing and one person is confirmed dead after a massive mudslide was dislodged by flash floods.