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Tibet is one of the most isolated regions in the world, a mass of mountains and plateaus so high they are better suited to yaks than humans.

As part of the team of Tibetan community members and Tibet activists negotiating with the Asian Art museum, I was invited to preview the Tibetan exhibit currently at the Asian Art Museum, entitled, "Tibet: Treasures from the Roof of the World"

China has finally decided to celebrate Tibet's "annexation" in public. More than four decades after it sent the Red Army to take control of Lhasa, Beijing has decided to hold a week-long festival in world capitals

Now to the second part of our feature on Tibet's second highest spiritual leader, the Panchen Lama. As we heard last night, in 1995 Tibet's highest leader – the exiled Dalai Lama – chose a six-year-old boy as the reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.

With the gentle slam of a hammer and the poised creak of a crowbar, Hailey smith Larry Meyers cracked open the container used to transport an 800-pound bronze Tibetan Buddhist prayer wheel from India to Idaho.

The Indian Press has watched the Tibet issue closely for the past few decades and more often than not, the Indian public at best got a vague idea about the fate of the Nepali look-alike

More participation at a lower cost will be the determining factor in the calculus of change in the coming polls of the Assembly of Tibetan People's Deputies and the Kalon Tripa, according to the Election Commission of the Central Tibetan Administration.

The U.N. envoy on torture is to visit China this year as Beijing grapples with a series of high-profile cases in which people have been wrongly convicted, and even put to death, after giving forced confessions.

Next month the head of the United Nations Human Rights Commission, Louise Arbour, will visit China. Human rights groups are hoping that she'll raise the case of a Tibetan boy and his family who China has hidden for a decade.

For the Tibetans, fighting for their cause against what they call the Chinese oppression, music plays an important role in their lives.