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China may let Dalai Lama visit, eyes ties with Vatican
Posted on Apr 04, 2006
China may let Dalai Lama visit, eyes ties with Vatican
Reuters[Monday, April 03, 2006 09:41]
By Benjamin Kang Lim
BEIJING - China may approve a visit by the Dalai Lama, as long as he abandons ideas of independence for Tibet, and establish diplomatic ties with the Vatican if it first drops links with Taiwan, the country's top religious official was quoted on Monday as saying.
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Stony-faced Mao to loom over Tibet
Posted on Mar 30, 2006
Stony-faced Mao to loom over Tibet
Reuters[Wednesday, March 29, 2006 19:15]
Beijing March 29 - Late Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong is set to cast a huge shadow over Tibet once again with a giant stone statue of the Great Helmsman on its way to the Himalayan region, a newspaper said on Wednesday.
| Tibetan government-in exile presents surplus budget for the first Time
Posted on Mar 30, 2006
Tibetan government-in exile presents surplus budget for the first Time
ANI[Wednesday, March 29, 2006 19:14]
Dharamshala, March 29 - In what has been unprecedented in the 47 years of the Tibetan governance, the government-in-exile forecast a surplus income of nearly three million rupees for the fiscal 2006-07.
| Assembly Acknowledges Financial Performances of the Kashag
Posted on Mar 30, 2006
Assembly Acknowledges Financial Performances of the Kashag
TibetNet[Wednesday, March 29, 2006 15:08]
Dharamshala, March 29 - The Assembly of the Tibetan People's Deputies today passed an official resolution as an appreciation for the overall financial standing and financial performance of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) by the incumbent Kashag.
| Tibet's Biggest Hydropower Project to Begin Power Generation Late This Year
Posted on Mar 26, 2006
Tibet's Biggest Hydropower Project to Begin Power Generation Late This Year
Xinhua[Sunday, March 26, 2006 09:47]
The first generating unit in a 100,000-kw hydropower project in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region is expected to go in operation and go on stream late this year.
| Tibet Week at Leeds University
Posted on Mar 26, 2006
Tibet Week at Leeds University
whatabouttibet.com[Sunday, March 26, 2006 09:38]
From March 13th - 17th 2006, the Leeds University Free Tibet Society held a week of events aimed at promoting the Tibetan cause, as well as Tibet's unique culture.
| Gere wants to repair road to Dalai Lama's house
Posted on Mar 26, 2006
Gere wants to repair road to Dalai Lama's house
IANS[Friday, March 24, 2006 22:37]
Shimla - Hollywood star Richard Gere is keen to repair a narrow potholed mountain road leading to the house of Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala town.
Legislator Vijay Singh Mankotia said this in the Himachal Pradesh assembly Friday.
| China to spend 700 million dollars on Tibetan roads
Posted on Mar 26, 2006
China to spend 700 million dollars on Tibetan roads
AFP[Friday, March 24, 2006 16:02]
Women weave in the courtyard of their mountain home. With an historic train line to Tibet about to open, China is now planning to spend around 700 million dollars on a vast new road network for the Himalayan territory.(AFP/File)
BEIJING - With an historic train line to Tibet about to open, China is now planning to spend around 700 million dollars on a vast new road network for the Himalayan territory, state press has reported.
China will this year spend 5.7 billion yuan on road construction in Tibet as it starts building 21 highway projects and nine other major new roads, the Xinhua news agency said.
| Assembly Debates on US Political Refugees' Rehabilitation Programme
Posted on Mar 26, 2006
Assembly Debates on US Political Refugees' Rehabilitation Programme
Thursday, 23 March 2006, 2:30 PM
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Dharamshala: The current session of the Assembly of the Tibetan People's Deputies held a heated discussion yesterday on the US Administration's programme to allow Tibetan refugees without documents in Nepal to migrate to US.
| Legislatures Ask His Holiness How We Can Help
Posted on Mar 23, 2006
Legislatures Ask His Holiness How We Can Help
TibetNet[Thursday, March 23, 2006 12:52]
From Left: Georg Pardeller, member of Parliament, Dr. Veronika Stirner Brantsch, President, Provincial Legislative Council of South Tyrol, and Dr. Gunther Cologna, president of Association Italia-Tibet
Dharamshala, March 23 - "What more can we do for the Tibetan cause? "A 12-member delegation of provincial parliamentarians from an autonomous region of Italy asked His Holiness the Dalai Lama during an hour-long audience this morning.
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