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Rescuers clear the site of a landslide on the Sichuan-Tibet Highway in Linzhi, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Friday, July 11, 2003. Nineteen people were buried in a landslide Wednesday caused by two-week-long rainfalls. Six bodies have so far been found. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Tu Deng)

Sixteen bodies of workers who were buried by a landslides on the Sichuan-Tibet highway, one of the highest roads in China, have been found, an official report said. Rescuers said that the bodies of all the victims have been found.

Hundreds of monks and Buddhist devouts assembled at the concluding ceremony of a five-day Tibetan annual prayers for world peace in Dharamsala on Friday. The annual prayer at Namgyal monastery was organised by the Tibetan-government-in exile

The Dalai Lama has made a number of "political misjudgements".

Patrick French was a 16-year-old student in England in the early 1980s when the news came that his school, a Catholic seminary, was to receive a special visitor - the Dalai Lama.

Participants in the 2003 Tibetan Youth Leadership Program, Europe, with ICT Europe Executive Director Tsering Jampa, far right

The inaugural European Tibetan Youth Leadership Program (TYLP) in Europe, held in Brussels from July 5 to 9, 2003 attracted 13 Tibetans from seven countries. The Program included a visit to the European Parliament during which the participants

The first lady of Peru, Eliane Karp Toledo, called upon Tibet’s spiritual and temporal leader the His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala on Friday. Eliane is currently in India participating in a conference of "Dialogue among Civilisations" in New Delhi. In the meeting that lasted about 30 minutes, Mrs. Eliane and the Dalai Lama discussed on solving religious intolerance in the world. Mrs. Eliane also briefed the Dalai Lama the current situation in Peru. Her daughter, Chantal, is also accompanying for her two-day stay in Dharamsala. Mrs. Eliane wrote “For Peace to all of us and finally forever.” in the remarks-book of the museum. Photo by Prem Sood

Introducing the meeting, Bruno Mellano (Radical member of the Regional Council and Co-ordinator of the Italian Association of Communes, Provinces and Regions for Tibet) recalled the following passage from the European Parliament Resolution of 6 July 2000:"

Chinese Railways Minister Liu Zhijun has said the first-ever railway link to the remote Himalayan region of Tibet should be first-class and safe. During an inspection tour of the Qinghai-Tibet railway construction site