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The number of fake Tibetan lamas from China applying to enter Taiwan using forged documents is on the rise, prompting the attention of Taiwan's law enforcement and national security authorities.

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama today inaugurated a ten-day free plastic surgery camp here. Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Vir Bhadra Singh was also present at the inauguration ceremony.

The completion of the first railway linking Tibet to other Chinese regions could fuel the spread of rat-borne diseases such as plague that mainly affect remote areas of northwest China, state media said.

A collection of songs secretly recorded by a group of young Tibetan nuns jailed in China for advocating Tibet's freedom is finally being heard outside bars.

For the first time in nine years, Canada is quietly sending an ambassador on a tour of Tibet, armed with an agenda that seems to give business a higher priority than human rights.

A 3-member delegation of the newly formed South African Parliamentary group for Tibet is on a visit to Dharamshala. The group, according to the Voice of Tibet based here, is visiting the hilltown headquarters of the exile Tibetan government to gain a first

CHINA'S premier Wen Jiabao arrives in Perth tonight for a four day visit likely to focus on supply of resources including uranium sales to meet China's surging energy

A team of Chinese topography experts has launched a comprehensive project to map the China-Nepal border.

Hundreds of Tibetan people in transit, who arrived in Nepal hoping to seek asylum in a third country, have been living in misery in Kathmandu following the government's 'unofficial' decision in October 2005

Tsering Wangmo is shaking uncontrollably as tears pour down her cheeks. Still sobbing, she pulls up her top and slowly turns around to show me a fretwork of scars. They criss-cross her body from shoulders to waist.