Tokyo: In tandem with growing requests and interest from the Japanese supporters, Liaison Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama for Japan & East Asia has arranged a visit of minister Tempa Tsering and former minister Jetsun Pema to Japan for two weeks. On the first leg of their visit yesterday (1 April 2010), they attended a reception hosted by the office and the Japanese supporters at Joenji Temple in Shinjuku, which was attended by seventy people.

Dharamshala: The global financial crisis shows just how vulnerable our economic systems are to greed and the ramifications of human decisions. Are you concerned by the current economic situation and interested in alternative approaches?

Dharamshala: Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs announced a committed "to further develop a positive relationship with China," after Monday's meeting between the U.S. President and Secretary of State, and Beijing's new envoy, Zhang Yesui.

Dharamshala: Human rights group Amnesty International published its annual report on the death penalty, stating that 718 people from 18 different countries were executed last year. However, the group remarked that the actual figure could potentially be much higher considering the high amount of unreported executions. Amnesty suspected that thousands of off the record executions occurred in China alone.

Dharamshala: Eighteen Tibetan refugees were released from government custody in Nepal on Monday. The 18 were members of a group of 25 or 23 who had been arrested earlier in March for trying to storm the Chinese Embassy's visa office in Kathmandu the capital of Nepal, during the Tibetan National Uprising.

Brussels: During the Mini-Plenary session of the European Parliament in Brussels on Thursday, the Members of European Parliament (MEPs) held a debate on the current situation of Tibet reviewing the peaceful protests by Tibetans inside Tibet in 2008.