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A two–day Northern Region Conference of the Tibet Support Groups was held at Patiala, Punjab on the 31st May and 1st June 2003. This is the first ever meeting of the Tibet support Group held in the state of Punjab.

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.

Recent official surveys from the TAR and Qinghai - the latter province traditionally known to Tibetans as Amdo - reveal several startling results. Extreme poverty in the TAR, as measured by the official poverty line in China

Tenzin Tangchen Dera, 18, is graduating today from the New Mexico Academy for Sciences and Mathematics. She is one of five students in the school's first graduating class and will attend Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colo. - Kathy De La Torre | The New Mexican

Long ago, Tenzin Yangchen Dera figured she would wind up like most Tibetan girls in India. She would drop out of boarding school, weave carpets and marry by 25, living the rest of her life with her husband's family.

A two-day conference of the North India Tibet Supporting Group comes to an end here in Patiala. The conference was organized by the efforts of the Bharat Tibet Sahyog Manch at S.D. Senior Secondary School, Patiala.