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A three days workshop on Waste Management and Recycling began today in Mcloed Gunj. The workshop was conducted jointly by the Department of Home (CTA) and Tibetan Welfare Office Dharamsala.

Rare and sacred treasures of Tibetan, never before seen in the Western World, will begin a national tour at the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art in October 2003.

When Tibet's exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, arrives in Copenhagen in June for a five-day visit, he will meet with PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Foreign Minister Per Stig Møller.

In 1959, when Communist Chinese illegally occupied Tibet, the independent nation with centuries of written history was facing a very critical juncture and dying era in her history.

In a simple and solemn ceremony organised this morning by the All Party Parliamentary Group for Tibet on the courtyard of the Westminster Abbey, the Dean of Westminster, Dr. Wesley Carr, lead a prayer service in memory of all the Tibetans who have died for Tibet's freedom.

Between 1997 and 2001 there was a rapid decline in the number of Tibetans in prison on political charges. The decline was due to a large number of releases and fewer detentions. However, this pattern appears to be changing.

The Dalai Lama on Tuesday led Tibetans in prayers aimed at minimizing suffering if war comes to Iraq. Speaking in Dharmsala, the headquarters of the Tibetan government in exile, the Dalai Lama said a U.S.-led attack was all but inevitable.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama said that differences in opinion must be resolved through dialogue and discussion rather than settling them by waging wars. His Holiness the Dalai Lama said wars produce temporary victors and temporary losers

The chairman of China's state-controlled Buddhist Association has repudiated both the Dalai Lama and the outlawed Falungong spiritual movement, state media reported Tuesday.