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Gyalwa Karmapa grace the occasion

The Gyalyum Chenmo Memorial Gold Cup kicked off yesterday amidst a festive mood. Gyalwa Karmapa Ugyen Thinley Dorji was the chief guest. Hundreds of football fans gathered at the Tibetan Children's Village School ground to watch the first two matches of the Tournament.

According to reliable sources, Public Security Bureau (PSB) Officers of Serthar County, Karze “Tibet Autonomous Prefecture” (“TAP”), Sichuan Province, took four Tibetans into custody on 27 May 2003.

The United States criticized Nepal Monday for deporting 18 Tibetans to China over the weekend, saying the move violated international norms on treatment of asylum seekers.

China will punish a group of 18 Tibetans who illegally crossed into Nepal and were sent back to China last weekend, a communist party newspaper said on Monday.

Tibetan exiles went to a prison here today to pay fines to release 18 Tibetan refugees, but they were too late: minutes earlier, two Chinese diplomats had arrived with a van preparing to forcibly carry the escapees back to Chinese-ruled Tibet.

Numerous women have over the years offered to marry the Dalai Lama, the celibate Tibetan spiritual leader told a German magazine. The exiled leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner told the weekly Die Welt am Sonntag, due to appear on

As a young monk, he studied Buddhist scriptures with the Dalai Lama. In 1959, he fled to India with Tibet's spiritual and political leader, after China occupied the country.

A Tibetan woman is dragged away by Nepalese police after throwing herself in front of a bus of carrying deportees to the border with China, in Kathmandu, May 31, 2003. Nepal deported 18 Tibetans to China on Saturday, the biggest group to be sent back for several years, bringing a strong rebuke from the United Nations refugee agency. (REUTERS/Nick Dawson)

Police in Nepal handed over 12 to 18 Tibetan refugees to Chinese authorities on Saturday in what activists said was a break with Nepal's past tolerance of Tibetans trying to leave their Himalayan territory.