South Africa Denies Visa To Dalai Lama

• Nobel Summit Cancelled After South Africa Denies Visa to Dalai Lama

  The World Summit of Nobel Peace laureates, scheduled for this month in South Africa, has been cancelled and shifted out of the country, owing to the denial of a travel visa to Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.

• 

  Dalai Lama Cancels South Africa Trip Amid Visa Row

  The Dalai Lama has cancelled a trip to South Africa for a summit of Nobel peace laureates, an aide said Thursday, reporting that Pretoria had denied him a visa in a bid to avoid angering China.

• Dalai Lama not to attend Nelson Mandela's funeral: official

  The Dalai Lama, who has twice since 2009 been denied a visa for South Africa, is not planning to attend his fellow Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela's funeral.

• Denied visa, Dalai Lama will talk with Desmond Tutu via web

  Barred from entering South Africa, the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama will link up via videoconferencing with fellow Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu to celebrate the latter's 80th birthday.

• South Africa denies visa to Dalai Lama; worse than Aparthied says Desmond Tutu

  Calling it "worse than the apartheid" regime, an angry Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Tuesday lambasted the South African government over its failure to issue a visa to the Dalai Lama, and warned it to "watch out". Tutu's outburst came after the Tibetan spiritual leader cancelled his visit to South Africa to receive an international award named after M...