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Powerful new footages of Tibetan nun Palden Choetso’s self-immolation on November 3 in Tawu, eastern Tibet and protests by thousands of Tibetans following her death have been smuggled out of Tibet.

Beginning November 15, a 19-member troupe from the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (TIPA) have been touring the northern Indian cities of Chandigarh and New Delhi, presenting a Tibetan cultural fest – “Dances from the Roof of the World.”

Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama today inaugurated hostel buildings for underprivileged Indian children built under the aegis of the Tong-Len Trust led by a Tibetan social worker monk Jamyang. The new hostel building funded by The Dalai Lama Trust

The day when His Holiness the Dalai Lama told the BBC that he was “worried” about a possible backlash in Tibet against monks and nuns protesting China’s occupation of Tibet, an online petition urging international intervention in Tibet crossed the 500,000 mark, yesterday.

Even as Lhamo Tso, the wife of jailed Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen is touring the UK, calling for her husband’s release, another Tibetan man suspected of having connections with the filmmaker has been arbitrarily detained

The Tibetan monk who self-immolated in the Nepali capital of Kathmandu on November 10, triggering a large scale manhunt and clampdown by the Nepali police has made a dramatic escape to India.

Citing an un-named source, a US based news agency on Tuesday released a minute long video clip of Tsewang Norbu’s self-immolation protest in Kham Kardze, eastern Tibet.

Members of the United States Congress in an open letter dated November 17, urged the US Ambassador to China, Gary Locke to visit Tibet and publicly raise the abuses suffered by the Tibetan people.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama flanked by J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdhulla arrives in Jammu on a day-long visit to inspect the ruins of an ancient Buddhist monastery and address a public gathering on November 16, 2011. (Phayul Photo/Sherab Woeser)

In what is being seen as the first act of self-immolation in mainland China following the recent wave of self-immolations by Tibetans in Tibet, a Chinese man set himself on fire in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, the scene of the 1989 pro-democracy protests.