Cape Town: The Western Cape High Court has dismissed an application on the Dalai Lama's visa, claiming that it was too late to fix the past, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) said on Friday. Judge Elizabeth Baartman dismissed with costs the application...
Cape Town (S. Africa), Feb.4 (ANI): The Western Cape High Court has dismissed an application on the Dalai Lama's visa, claiming that it was too late to fix the past, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) said on Friday. | The IFP and the Congress of the People brought the application. | The government's failure to grant the visa sparked a public outcry with Tutu accusing President Jacob Zuma's administration of bein...
The resolution recognizes the immeasurable sacrifice of Tibetans who have self-immolated in protest of Chinese political suppression, calling for Tibetan freedom and the return of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama . TIME magazine labeled the current...
China has ratcheted up security in the Tibetan region, cutting internet and some mobile phone services in large swatches as patrols clamp down on protest. | The state-run Global Times newspaper reported from a Tibetan part of Sichuan province on Friday, saying that internet and phone services were cut in a 50-square-kilometer area around protest sites.
A South African court on Friday dismissed a case brought by two opposition parties challenging the government's failure to grant the Dalai Lama a visa last year. | The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader had sought a visa to attend fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu's 80th birthday celebrations in Cape Town in October.
By Michael Martina and Brian Rhoads BEIJING (Reuters) - China over the years has derided the Dalai Lama as a jackal in Buddhist robes, choreographer of a separatist Peking opera and, lately, instigator of a plot that led some Tibetans to set...
Reuters: China over the years has derided the Dalai Lama as a jackal in Buddhist robes, choreographer of a separatist Peking opera and, lately, instigator of a plot that led some Tibetans to set themselves on fire and other forms of protest.
By Michael Martina and Brian Rhoads BEIJING (Reuters) - China over the years has derided the Dalai Lama as a jackal in Buddhist robes, choreographer of a separatist Peking opera and, lately, instigator of a plot that led some Tibetans to set themselves...
Tickets for the Dalai Lama's lecture in Dundee have begun changing hands for several times their face value. | One of the completed auctions, where a pair of tickets sold for £200. | Demand to see the Buddhist leader at Caird Hall in June was so great that the £25 tickets took just two hours to sell out on Wednesday.
This morning I tried to book tickets for the lecture by the Dalai Lama at the Caird Hall in June €” a rare chance to see a truly great man. | Knowing they would be popular I started ringing early and also tried the online booking service. I rang at great length five times, being repeatedly told I was in a queue, and was simply cut off the first four. | The fifth time I got a message saying telephone bookings were not being taken.
TOUTS are selling tickets for the Dalai Lama’s visit to Scotland for 10 times their face value or more. | Tickets to see the leader of Tibet’s Buddhists on his June lecture tour were sold out within two hours on Wednesday. Now touts are trying to turn massive profits by selling them for hundreds of pounds, despite the £25 tickets being non-transferable. FREE NEWS UPDATES 24/7...
Independent Newspapers Online: The Dalai Lama gestures as he leads a prayer session in Dharmsala, India. | The Western Cape High Court dismissed an application on the Dalai Lama's visa as it was too late to fix the past, the IFP said on Friday. | "Today, the Cape High Court handed down a judgment which dismissed this application on the ground of it being moot," IFP MP Mario Oriani-Ambrosini said. | The application was brought by the IFP and Cope.
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Independent Newspapers Online: Johannesburg - Judgment on the constitutionality of the government's decision to deny entry to the Dalai Lama is expected to be handed down by the Western Cape High Court on Friday. | The Inkatha Freedom Party and the Congress of the People are seeking an order declaring Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma's handling of the matter unlawful and forcing her to treat future applications by the Dalai Lama fairly.
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The 14th Dalai Lama stepped down as the political leader and a new democratic government-in-exile took over. Tibetans may finally have the tools to start winning the fight for their basic freedoms. "It seems that wherever I look, it's all problems...
The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) on Friday said it would study the Western Cape High Court's judgment on the Dalai Lama's visa application and may appeal it. The Western Cape High Court dismissed the Congress of the People (Cope) and the IFP's application with costs. The parties had wanted an order declaring the home affairs minister's handling of the Dalai Lama's visa unlawful.
Keywords: News24|South Africa|Politics| The Western Cape High Court has dismissed an application on the Dalai Lama's visa as it was too late to fix the past, the Inkatha Freedom Party says.
Independent Newspapers Online: An application on whether it was constitutional for the government not to grant a visa to the Dalai Lama last year, was dismissed in the Western Cape High Court on Friday. Judge Elizabeth Baartman dismissed the application by the Inkatha Freedom Party...
The Western Cape High Court on Friday dismissed the Congress of the People (Cope) and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) application around the Dalai Lama saga with costs. The Dalai Lama cancelled an intended trip to South Africa in October 2011...
As the situation in Tibet grows potentially worse and more unclear because of lack of access to journalists, a major state-run Chinese newspaper has weighed in by saying there's "no need to sweat over minor unrest." | In an editorial published on Thursday, the nationalistic Global Times said foreign hand-wringing over Tibet was fruitless and unhelpful.
Tickets to see the Dalai Lama in Dundee sold out within hours as early risers queued through the city streets. | Tibetan Karma Tenthar was delighted to secure a ticket. | Hundreds waited patiently as the line of people stretched from the City Square as far as Castle Street, with some said to have started queuing from 6am for Wednesday's sale.
Expressing their happiness at the “grand success” of the Kalachakra teachings, the organising committee credited the “special spiritual relationship” between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and his devotees for the favourable outcome of the teachings.
In the past 11 months, 16 Tibetans have set their bodies on fire in Tibet demanding the return of the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama from exile and protesting China's continued occupation of Tibet. Mass protests in many parts of Tibet...
For example, on Jan 25, posters and leaflets calling for Tibet's freedom and the Dalai Lama's return appeared at Ragya monastery in Golog prefecture, Qinghai province, reported RFA.org Jan 31. This was after Chinese authorities had investigated...
It is not us, but people like the aging Dalai Lama who should worry. As long as we accept the reality that some incidents are inevitable in parts of Chinese society, including Tibet and Xinjiang, much of the air attached to the Dalai Lama's political...
The unarmed protesters, many of whom were farmers and nomads raised slogans calling for freedom in Tibet and the return of the Dalai Lama . As the protests grew stronger, the Public Security Bureau and People's Armed Police intervened by using guns...
"Lamas don't attack police!They'd rather set themselves on fire! I believe they didn't attack police." The chairman of the Dalai Lama Religious Foundation said the Chinese regime tries to cover up its crimes against Tibetans.
Ken Borsuk: During rush hour I stopped at the newsstand in Grand Central and picked up a book by the Dalai Lama about how to be compassionate. Then, I promptly sidestepped a poor man in a wheelchair who had his hand out for cash.
Hundreds of Tibetans had come out on the streets on the first day of Chinese new year, calling for Tibet's freedom and the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet, following which the police indiscriminately fired on the unarmed demonstrators.
In the nine-minute audio recording, Lama Sobha said his sacrifice was in solidarity with "heroes" who have died seeking to protect Tibetan culture, the Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) said in a statement. | The people of Tibet "must unite and work together to build a strong and prosperous Tibetan nation in the future," the group quoted him as saying.
The spiritual leader will visit three cities in Scotland in June. | Dalai Lama: Will visit three cities on his tour of Scotland. | Tickets for the Dalai Lama's "historic" visit to Dundee have sold out two hours after going on sale. | Large queues of people began forming at the box office at 6am on Wednesday morning. | The last tickets were snapped up just after 11am, two hours after the box office opened.
Most have chanted for Tibetan freedom and the return of their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama , who fled to India amid an abortive uprising against Chinese rule in 1959. Many Tibetans resent Beijing's heavy-handed rule and the large-scale migration...
Voicing serious concern over the deteriorating situation in Tibet, six top American Senators have introduced a resolution in the US Congress asking China to suspend implementation of religious control regulations and immediately start a dialogue with the Dalai Lama. | Mourning the recent death of Tibetans and deploring the repressive policies, the resolution calls on China to release all persons that have been arbitrarily detaine...
A top official from Lhasa, capital of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, has ordered tightened security in the city amid an arduous fight with the Dalai Lama group, local media reported.
The escalation of tensions in ethnically Tibetan regions of China is the latest in a series that have resulted in deaths, frayed ties between the United States and China, and greater pressure from Beijing against the Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet for India in 1959 after a failed uprising.