Dharamsala, India  - In the short wait before disembarking from a turbo-prop aircraft that has landed in India's lush Dharamsala valley, the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, greeted passengers with gentle nods and a smile, offering a helping hand to a woman struggling with her luggage.

Dharamsala, India  - Two callow Tibetans waited this month outside the Tibetan Reception Centre, which receives new refugees from Tibet, on one of the main streets that runs through McLeodganj, a suburb of Dharamsala, nestled near the edge of the snow-capped Dhauladhar range.

Their weather-beaten faces betrayed their arduous journey to McLeodganj, where Tibet flags adorned with snow lions flutter at key intersections.

Dharamsala, India - Tibet faces a new wave of violence, warned Samdhong Rinpoche, prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, who worried that Tibetans might be targeted by Chinese forces as the Asian giant seeks to deflect attention from the economic hardships the global economic turmoil is bringing upon its people.

Although the Tibetan government adheres to its "middle way" approach, which renounces independence in favour of greater autonomy within China, Rinpoche, also known as the "Precious One," admitted that the policy was unlikely to succeed with the Chinese leadership.

New Delhi  - Hundreds of Tibetan monks and exiles gathered at a main Buddhist temple in a northern India hill-town to join their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama Sunday to offer prayers for Tibetans killed in Chinese crackdowns.

The Dalai Lama led the prayers at the Tsuglagkhang temple near his abode-in-exile in Dharamsala in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh.

Religious leaders from the four main Tibetan Buddhist sects, the Tibetan prime minister-in-exile Samdhong Rinpoche as well as ministers and members of the Tibetan parliament-in-exile were present at the prayers.

London, Mar. 8 : Hundreds of exiled Tibetans and their British supporters took to streets here on Saturday to protest against Beijing's violent clampdown on anti- government activists.

The agitating Tibetans through the Tibet society asked the British Government to pressurize the Chinese administration to discontinue their suppressive policies, and allow an independent inquiry inside Tibet to determine what's actually happening inside Tibet, and present a clear picture in front of the international community.

Beijing