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Dalai Lama

IIMs want ethical business leaders

The institutes have now begun sensitising students about business ethics and morality as well. Be it inviting eminent personalities like the Dalai Lama to speak on business ethics or incorporating ethics as a compulsory course,...

Chinese dissidents favourites for Nobel Peace Prize

Two Chinese dissidents have emerged as favourites for the Nobel Peace Prize, in a potential embarrassment to China over its poor human rights record. By Malcolm Moore in Shanghai It's been six months since Hu Jia was sentenced...

Dalai Lama to undergo medical checkup

The Dalai Lama will undergo a second medical checkup in as many months while he recovers from exhaustion, a spokesman for the Tibetan spiritual leader said Monday. The 73-year-old Dalai Lama leader is scheduled to arrive in the...

Dalai Lama in New Delhi for medical check-up

Dalai Lama to undergo second medical-checkup in two months Tibetan spiritual leader was in Mumbai hospital in August Dalai Lama heads Tibetan government-in-exile based in India Fled Tibet when Chinese troops took control of...

Guessing game in full-swing ahead of 2008 Nobel Prizes

Monday, October 06, 2008 By Pia Ohlin The pundits’ wild guessing game is in full swing ahead of the Nobel season which opens on Monday, with Chinese or Russian human rights activists favourites to win the Peace Prize and...

Olympics host China breaks Golden Week holiday records (Reuters)

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top tourist destinations received a record number of visitors during last week's Golden Week holiday, the government said on Monday, with Olympic venues major draws. But visits to Tibet dropped 36...

Strong quake rattles Tibet

Source: Reuters (Adds details, quote) BEIJING, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Strong earthquakes hit China's remote western regions of Tibet and Xinjiang on Monday but both appear to have struck sparsely populated, mountainous ...

Chinese tourists shun restive Tibet region

Beijing - Tourism revenue fell by nearly 40 per cent in China's Tibet region over the week-long National Day holiday because of rioting and unrest in the region earlier this year, state media said on Monday. The number of...

Dalai Lama to undergo medical checkup

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Turkey mounts airstrike on Kurdish rebels

Published Date: 06 October 2008 Iraq: Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq just days after rebels killed 15 soldiers in an attack staged partly from Iraqi soil. The planes bombed rebel hideouts in...

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