Despite Chinese protests, Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe conferred the city's honorary citizenship on the Dalai Lama on Sunday. China said that the award was an interference in Chinese domestic political affairs.

Peace Conference in South Africa canceled due to non-participation after the Dalai Lama was denied a visa. Millions of people expressed their solidarity with Dalai Lama.

With the Beijing Olympics set to begin on August 8 (day of the opening ceremony), LoyalTV -- the new peer-to-peer video-sharing Web site where people post videos about what they're most passionate about -- has joined forces with the Dalai Lama-blessed campaign, 'Candle for Tibet,' that promises to be the greatest light protest on Earth.

After meeting the Dalai Lama in Colorado, McCain asked China to release Tibetan prisoners and account for those who had disappeared during the unrest in Tibet and other affected regions.

The United States and the European Union will call on China on Tuesday to have "results-orientated" talks on Tibet with the Dalai Lama's representatives, according to a draft joint declaration.

Maintaining that Tibetans are not "anti-Chinese", Tibetan spiritual leader, Dalai Lama has said the Chinese need to be educated to help remove their misconceptions on the vexed Tibet issue.

The stage is set for the first talks between the envoys of the Dalai Lama and China since the massive anti-government protests erupted in Tibet even as a combative Beijing heaped more scorn on the Tibetan spiritual leader, accusing him of committing a "litany of crimes".

The Dalai Lama says his representatives are conducting talks with Chinese officials through private channels.

The Dalai Lama has ruled out any more "concessions" to China on Tibet and threatened to resign as leader of Tibet's exiled government if violence in his Himalayan homeland went "out of control."

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier appealed Friday for greater Chinese transparency in Tibet. Both urged Beijing to deal with exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and his representatives.

Amid the raging Tibet issue, Dalai Lama has arrived in the United States for a visit which is expected to draw much international attention to the dislike of China, for his quest for "genuine" autonomy and preservation of the unique Tibetan culture.

Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has reiterated his support for the Beijing Olympic Games, but says authorities in China have no right to demand that critics end peaceful demonstrations against China's actions in Tibet.