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Tibetans Accord Warm Welcome to His Holiness on Return
DHARAMSHALA: His Holiness the Dalai Lama successfully concluded his 14-day visit to the US and returned to Dharamsala today.
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TIBET 23 May 2011 China annexed Tibet 60 years ago
On 23 May 1951, China annexed Tibet. The 60th anniversary is likely to see the "roof of the world" closed to foreign visitors, headlines from Beijing about benefits China has bestowed in 60 years on what it calls the Tibetan Autonomous Region, and a possible change in the political leadership of the Tibetan government-in-exile. It could also be an occasion for more "Free Tibet" demonstrations at the gates of Chinese embassies around the world.
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China 'will not talk' to new Tibetan leader
China appears to have ruled out talks with the Tibetan government-in-exile's new prime minister, Lobsang Sangay. A top Chinese official dealing with Tibetan contacts said Beijing would only meet with representatives of the Dalai Lama.
Peace Summit Panelists Endorse His Holiness’s Call for Teaching Secular Ethics in Schools
Newark, New Jersey, USA, 14 May 2011 - On the last day of his current trip to the United States, May 14, 2011, His Holiness participated in two sessions at the Newark Peace Education Summit, made a keynote address and found agreement and support of the co-panelists on his call for incorporating teaching of secular ethics in the education system.
Tibetan PM elect visits TYC hunger strikers, urges end to fast
Dharamsala, May 13 - Lobsang Sangay, the prime minister elect of the Tibetan government-in-exile, met Thursday with three executive members of the Tibetan Youth Congress who are on an indefinite hunger strike in New Delhi to protest against a clampdown by Chinese authorities at the Kirti monastery in Tibet's Ngaba County.
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Chinese authorities arrest another monk from Kirti Monastery
DHARAMSHALA: Lobsang Rinchen, a 21-year-old monk of Kirti Monastery in Ngaba has been arrested from his residential quarter on 9 May. He is a native of Tsamring Tsang house in pastoral division no.2 of Me’uruma township in Ngaba.
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More than 40 injured in China bank blast
More than 40 people were injured Friday after a disgruntled former employee ignited a petrol bomb at a bank in a Tibetan-inhabited region of northwest China, local authorities said.