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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.

The hot dogs will be replaced by hummus at Rutgers Stadium, and out-of-towners will be instructed on the vagaries of Middlesex County's Route 18 construction project.

Hidden from view among the temples and souvenir shops of old Lhasa, a quiet revolution is taking place, and Pema Dolkar is proud to be part of it.

The results of the much-ballyhooed exams for the top fifth post of Tibetan civil service will be declared on Monday, 22 August, according to the Public Service Commission (PSC) of the Central Tibetan Administration.

Finally, to China, where, after four years of construction work – much of it in extremely rugged terrain – the Quinghai Tibet Railway Project is in its final stages.

Human Rights in China has learned that a Gansu uranium mine employee has been missing for 110 days after being detained by public security police following his attempts to petition officials over severe radiation poisoning affecting local residents.

'Tibet existed as an independent country for centuries with its own customs, traditions, culture, religion and national language.'

Lourdes, one of the world's most prominent Christian pilgrimage sites, hosted the Peace Day on 14 August. In tow with UNESCO's initiative of Peace Manifesto and the opening of the Culture of Peace Decade

Tenzin Tsundue's poems are about exile from Tibet and the longing for home. It was at a conference in Delhi some months ago. The first half a dozen or so writers I met all bragged with their first breath: