TOKYO, Jan. 30 (Kyodo) -- -- Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will visit Taiwan for five days in late March, sources close to the island's Buddhist Association said Thursday.

The sources said the Dalai Lama will travel in his capacity as religious leader and not as head of Tibet's government-in-exile.

The Dalai Lama will also pay a courtesy call on Taiwan's legislature, the sources said.

The indigenous Tamang people of Nepal have published a collection of international documents on human rights in their native language using aid from a Japanese nongovernment organization, the leader of the group said Thursday.

Hideaki Uemura, head of the Tokyo-based Citizens' Center for Diplomacy, said his group donated 800 U.S. dollars to the Nepal Tamang Association to translate and publish the documents.

Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori are likely to meet Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien in Toronto on Saturday, a top Foreign Ministry official said Thursday.

Chretien has offered to meet the two over lunch after Hashimoto and Fujimori discuss ways to resolve the prolonged hostage crisis in the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima, the official said on condition of anonymity.

Chinese brokers who help smuggle illegal immigrants into developed countries are earning vast sums, including by aiding an increasing number of Chinese into Japan, police sources said Thursday.