We Day assembly in GM Place addressed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and activist Craig
Kielburger (R) Tuesday, 29 September in Vancouver/Photo Credit: The Vancouver Sun

Vancouver, Canada: “The future of the century is in your hands. Please, take care of it,” His Holiness the Dalai Lama told a crowd of 16,000 youngsters who thronged a […]

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Dharamshala: Speaking to California first lady Maria Shriver, wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger, at a Women and Peace-building conference in downtown Vancouver Tuesday, His Holiness the Dalai Lama said the role of women in peace building is vital, but often ignored, Canadian Television online reported.
“The other day I mentioned whether you […]

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From left: Reverend Mpho Tutu, accepting for Archbishop Tutu, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama
receiving the Fetzer Prize for Love & Forgiveness, in Vancouver, Canada/Photo: The Fetzer Institute

Vancouver, Canada: His Holiness the Dalai Lama yesterday participated in a discussion on the topic ‘Creativity and Well-being’ which was a part of the Vancouver Peace Summit.  His […]

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The Dalai Lama will be in Calgary for a two-day visit to speak at a University of Calgary conference and attend a public reception at the Pengrowth Saddledome. (CBC)
Calgary Mayor Dave Bronconnier will give the Dalai Lama the city’s iconic white cowboy hat Wednesday, a move the city’s Tibetan community said will right a nearly […]

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Customers use their laptop computers at a wireless cafe in Beijing. Press rights group Reporters Without Borders said Tuesday that a “paranoid” China had blocked tens of thousands of websites ahead of the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic. (AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)
TAIPEI - Taiwan will screen films about Tibetans and Uighurs, China’s most restive ethnic […]

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HONG KONG: More than 1,300 journalists in Hong Kong joined a signature campaign Wednesday to condemn police brutality towards their colleagues reporting in China and urged authorities to respect media freedom.

Hong Kong journalists march with placards in support of press freedom and to protest against the Chinese paramilitary police for beating Hong Kong journalists, in […]

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Hong Kong - Discontent with Beijing rule has hit a 21-month high in Hong Kong just two days before China celebrates the 60th anniversary of Communist rule, according to a poll Tuesday. A higher percentage of people in the former British colony are unhappy with Beijing’s handling of Hong Kong than at any time since […]

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y Valerie Berenyi, Calgary HeraldSeptember 30, 2009 7:48 AMComments (1)

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The Dalai Lama’s followers believe him to be a living Buddha.
I think he’s the Second Coming of Yoda.
The physical resemblance is striking, and their voices are nearly identical. Both are given to responding to questions with ethereal, ponderable answers, such as yesterday’s response by the Dalai Lama about whether a peace movement existed […]

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by Samdhong Rimpoche
Samdhong Rimpoche, prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, writes to AsiaNews to explain what the past 60 years have meant to the many victims of the Chinese Communist state, provides a critical appraisal of China’s economic boom.
Dharamsala (AsiaNews) – “For the past 60 years since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, […]

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