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Businesspersons associated with the Federation of Nepal Cottage and Small Industries (FNCSI) are all set to go to Lhasa, Tibet to participate at the Nepal-China-Tibet Economic and Trade Fair 2005 to be organised from September 15 to 19.

According to the election rules and regulations, the Local Election Commissions (LEC) are barred from divulging any information about the number of voter registration or turn out

The results of the preliminary polls of the Assembly of the Tibetan People's Deputies will be declared on 8 November, according to the Election Commission of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA).

The Middle-Way Approach is being tossed around the Assembly of the Tibetan People's Deputies one more time. But the zeitgeist this time is to compliment not supplant, as the 46-member highest legislative organ of the CTA

Prof. Jacob Doek, the Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) this morning asked the Chinese authorities to receive an independent body to verify the current status of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the Eleventh Panchen Lama of Tibet.

As the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) met today to review the Second Periodic Report of the People's Republic of China, staff of ICT Europe, President of the Tibetan Women's Association (B. Tsering)

The 70-year-old Dalai Lama slipped off his red tennis shoes and got comfortable in the lotus position in front of thousands who came to hear him discuss the virtues of compassion.

The Tibetan community of Italy in association with Italy Tibet association and campagna di solidarieta con popolo tibetana protested against the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the constitution of the so called Tibetan Autonomous Region under China.

They said it was impossible to build a railway to Tibet. There were 5,000m-high mountains to climb, 12km-wide valleys to bridge, hundreds of kilometres of ice and slush that could never support tracks and trains.

The top environment watchdog will begin environmental impact assessment on the Qinghai-Tibet railway this week.