Dharamshala — President Dr Lobsang Sangay, will deliver a talk, "Tibet in the 21st Century" at Sydney Opera House in Australia next month. The public talk will cover topics that include the political, environmental, cultural and economic challenges facing Tibet today.

New Delhi — Former Indian Defence Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday raised the issue of Tibet in the Parliament of India "Lok Sabha", strongly urged the government of India to support Tibet's independence.

Paris, France — The Paris-based international media watchdog, "Reporters Without Borders" (RSF) is deeply saddened by the news of the death of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo, who was the 2010 Nobel peace laureate and 2004 RSF press freedom laureate. RSF holds the Chinese authorities responsible and urges them to end the house arrest of his wife, Liu Xia.

Dharamshala — Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo, China's most prominent political prisoner who co-authored a petition known as "Charter 08" calling for sweeping political reforms in China, died Thursday at a hospital in the country's northeast. He was 61.

Dharamshala — Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner known as 'China's conscience,' and it's most famous pro-democracy, human rights advocate and political prisoner, Liu Xiaobo, died of liver cancer in Chinese custody yesterday, while serving an 11-year prison sentence for "inciting subversion of state power." He was 61.

Dharamshala — His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the democratically elected President Dr Lobsang Sangay have congratulated Khaltmaa Battulga of the Democratic Party for winning Mongolia's Presidential election.