Kathmandu - Nepalese police Friday detained nearly 140 Tibetan exiles during anti-China demonstrations in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu. For the second consecutive day, Tibetan exiles tried to breach police lines outside China's visa office building...
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Planeterra, G.A.P Adventures’ non-profit foundation, has raised funds to donate to the Seva Canada Society, an international non-governmental organization dedicated to the elimination of preventable and treatable blindness. The...
Swarms of plainclothes police took away four foreign activists who tried to unfurl a Tibetan flag outside the main Olympics venue on Thursday, squelching the latest attempt to demonstrate during the Beijing Games. The...
AUBURN, AL - The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art announced the opening of a small exhibition of works from the Nelson and Joan Cousins Hartman Collection of Tibetan Bronzes. The exhibition, Aspects of Buddha, is open now...
Kathmandu (AFP) Aug 20, 2008 - Some 50,000 people have been forced to flee after monsoon rains washed away a dam in southern Nepal and were taking refuge in makeshift shelters, schools and temples, an official said Wednesday.