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Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama met Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday in London on the latter’s 67th birthday. This was the first time that the two Nobel Peace Laureates were meeting.

Icons of Peace: Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama greets Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in London, England, on June 19, 2012. (Photo/Jeremy Russell/OHHDL)

A Tibetan monk has been tortured to death by the Chinese police in Nyagrong, Kardze eastern Tibet. Karwang, 36, a monk at the Nyagrong Monastery, was detained on charges of putting up pro-independence posters on the walls of a Chinese government building in the region.

New members of the Tibetan National Men's Football Team pose for a picture with officials of the Tibetan National Football Association in Dharamshala, June 19, 2012. The players were selected after a ten-day camp from 47 probables who played in the last three editions of the Gyalyum Chenmo Memorial Gold Cup. (Phayul photo/Norbu Wangyal)

In his last words before setting himself on fire, Tamding Thar called for Tibet to be ruled by Tibetans. In a quatrain written in Tibetan, Tamding Thar, also called for the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet

A group of young Tibetans in Los Angeles came up with a ‘meritorious’ idea of observing the Tibetan Buddhist holy month of Saka Dawa as well as ‘Father’s Day’ by serving up food to the homeless in their locality

Around 300 Tibetans and supporters based in Switzerland and Liechtenstein on Monday carried a march from the UN Human Rights Council Office to the UN Office in Geneva, calling for intervention in the critical situation inside Tibet.

In a first of its kind demonstration for Tibet, hundreds of supporters took out a skateboard rally in Berlin, calling for the rights of the Tibetan people on Sunday.

Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay will be leaving for New Delhi tomorrow for an onward journey to Australia, his first after assuming office in August last, according to the official website of the Central Tibetan Administration.

A Chinese court in eastern Tibet sentenced two Tibetans from Andu township of Ngaba region to varying prison terms for refusing to accept houses built with Chinese government aid earlier this month.