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Katrina Smit of Marsing experienced the chance of a lifetime Monday as the Dalai Lama wrapped a cloth around her neck and exchanged words.

Bombardier, a major international transportation company has been publicly criticised over its controversial deal with China to supply railway cars to the Qinghai -Tibet (Gormo-Lhasa) railway.

The Long Look Homeward, the exhibition of Tibetan Museum of Dharamsala, has been exhibited in the Culture Center of the Commune of Auderghem, in the suburb of Brussels.

Willow Jack, a dancer from Idaho's Lemhi Shoshone Indian tribe, lost her husband and 4-year-old daughter in an Aug. 12 car crash on a southern Montana highway.

Findings and recommendations of the probe committees formed by the Assembly of the Tibetan People's Deputies on various matters will be tabled for debate in the tenth session of the incumbent legislature beginning tomorrow through 23 September.

The Tibetan Election Commission may lack in the hardware for electronic voting, but not in the software for counting votes.

We regret to inform you that the Tibet Information Network (TIN) has had to close down for lack of funds. TIN was started in the late 1980s and rapidly became the leading independent provider of news on Tibet, as well as a prime source of more detailed research.

There are concerns for the health and safety of a senior Tibetan teacher and Rinpoche who has been serving a life sentence since 1999, in one of the most serious political cases in Tibet in recent years.

In honor of the Dalai Lama's 70th birthday this year, and his November visit to Washington DC, Tibetan Buddhist monks will create and then destroy a unique sand mandala at the new office of the International Campaign for Tibet on 20-21 September.

The Tibetan Community in Italy made their voices heard during the Tibet Culture Week organised by the Chinese Government in association with the Italy-China Foundation captained by Italian tycoon Cesare Romiti.