UNHCR deputy chief to visit Nepal

Assistant High Commissioner for Refugees (Operations) from UNHCR headquarters in Geneva, Judy Cheng-Hopkins, will pay her first official visit

Kalon Tripa Leaves for Germany Tonight

After addressing the ninth batch (of total 16) of Indian pilgrims to sacred Mount Kailash, and speaking on “Change: The Nature of Inter-Dependence”, at a ceremony

No Voice for Tibet from South Africa

Another opportunity was lost for Tibet in South Africa when China’s premier Wen Jiabao visited South Africa in June. Here was an opportunity for

Mongolia’s monks make a comeback

When Gendenjav Choijamts thinks of praying, he thinks of vodka. The 62-year-old monk at Mongolia’s oldest Buddhist monastery remembers when his father and his friends had