Dalai Lama celebrates 74th birthday, promises to live to 100

On 6 July, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso celebrated his 74 birthday. "Through all your wishes, I will live longer. I do not know whether I can live for thousands years, but I am sure I will stay alive...

Special Report: Journalists in Exile 2009

At least 39 journalists fled from their native countries worldwide in the past 12 months. Sri Lanka leading the way with at least 11 journalists, which is more than quarter of the journalists fled worldwide. "...

Deal may allow Tiger leader exile escape

New year gift to Piraniaharan? any way he might become free but at this point also:  civilians lives will be saved his remaining cadres lives will be saved Some SLDF brave soldiers lives will be save and...

BBC to air undercover report on West Papua tonight

The BBC is to air an undercover report on West Papua tonight . The report will focus on the ongoing struggle in the country for its independence from Indonesian rule whose government has been accused of illegally...

O Brother Where Art Thou? Part 3

The 69 million peso question Money, the root of all evil Let me tell you a tale of greed and corruption. This is a story of a televangelist who managed to take control of church properties worth 69 million pesos...

Paris to house Bangladeshi exiled writer Taslima Nasrin

Internationally acclaimed award winning Bangladeshi feminist writer Taslima Nasrin has been under threat from Islamist extremists and been living in hiding at several places after fleeing from her home country. ...

Eli Soriano - O Brother Where Art Thou

“A flash in the pan!” When applied to a person, this idiom means the person rose to success and then disappears just as quickly. Such is what happened to Televangelist Eliseo Fernando Soriano. Hounded by a multitude of legal problems, the self-proclaimed “pantas” is...

Dalai Lama warns Tibetan exiles against failure

One of the Seven people I'd like to meet in heaven....Maybe it's because I have seen all the movies about the Dalai Lama.  I certanly don't know the man but I certanly would like to know him.  Like a...

Tibetans to push for independence, Ball in China’s court now: Tibetan Prime...

Tibetans are mulling over the future course of action in their ongoing conclave at their exile headquarter in Dharamsala in north India. They are likely to push demand for full independece from China rather...

Tibetans blamed for failed talks

"Tibetans blamed for failed talks By Michael Bristow ...

SC verdict a great gift: M F Husain

" 9 Sep 2008, 0534 hrs IST, Anubha Sawhney Joshi,TNN NEW DELHI: It's probably the best birthday present he could have ever received and artist M F Husain is graciously thanking the country's highest court....

Protesters flood Bangkok streets

"Thousands of protesters have descended onto the streets of Bangkok to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej and his cabinet. They occupied the offices of the state broadcaster NBT and surrounded the main government offices, forcing most civil servants...

Thaksin Still Faces Trial Despite Exile to UK

The man can run but he certainly can't hide, nor seem to shake off his avid grim reapers. On Friday, Thailand's Supreme Court rejected a request by Thaksin Shinawatra's lawyer to suspend his impending corruption...

Thaksin's Moment: To Be or Not To Be?

First it was just rumours, then a few hours afterwards it was proven to be true - atypical of theatrical Thaksin, the scorned but once beloved ex-Prime Minister of Thailand to lead the local...

Thaksin flees Thailand corruption trial and returns to exile in Britain

The Thai Supreme Court has issued an arrest warrant for ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife after they skipped bail and refused to return to Thailand to stand trial for corruption. The couple issued a statement read on state television today saying they will not...

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