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The release of 34-year old Tibetan nun Phuntsog Nyidron into exile in the United States on March 15 marks the end of the imprisonment in Tibet for a courageous and determined group of women who became known

Tibetans in India is to take up organic farming according to the decision taken by the Tibetan government in exile, which is based in the hill town of Dharmasala.

In a move to increase worldwide environmental conservation efforts, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has listed the Tibetan antelope as an endangered species under the authority of the Endangered Species Act.

China has set up paramilitary public security detachments in two largely Tibetan cities to handle any terrorist acts or mass disturbances, overseas Tibet sources said Thursday.

As requested by the Education Department, the Finance Department of the Central Tibetan Administration is giving entrepreneurship training to the final year students of the Transit School, Dharamshala, in the school premises.

The results of the final round of election of the Assembly of the Tibetan People's Deputies (ATPD) will be declared on 28 April 2006, according to the Election Commission (EC) of the Central Tibetan Administration.

The New York based human rights monitoring organization Human Rights Watch has asked the authorities in China's Sichuan Province to allow independent medical professionals and human rights monitors to visit five Tibetans detained without trial for six months.

Late Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong is set to cast a huge shadow over Tibet once again with a giant stone statue of the Great Helmsman on its way to the Himalayan region, a newspaper said on Wednesday.

In what has been unprecedented in the 47 years of the Tibetan governance, the government-in-exile forecast a surplus income of nearly three million rupees for the fiscal 2006-07.

The Australia Tibet Council (ATC) has asked Foreign Minister Alexander Downer to raise the issue of Tibet when he meets with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during his visit to Australia, which begins this weekend.