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Tuvan throat singing, Buryat folk music, traditional Kalmyk melodies and epic songs passed down by a Buddhist saint who lived nearly 1,000 years ago - these are some of the highlights of a concert to take place in honor of the Dalai Lama's 70th birthday.

The newly formed Tibetan Chamber of Commerce or the TCC will meet annually when the governing body prescribes. This was revealed by the rules and regulations of the TCC.

A teenage boy being groomed by China to become the new Tibetan religious leader has been allowed to meet tens of thousands of people in a rare trip, state media said.

The Office of Tibet, Moscow, will launch a new website in the Russian language on the 70th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Ten years ago, the 6th July - the birthday of Tibet’s exiled leader, the 14th Dalai Lama - was chosen as an auspicious day on which to launch the Tibet Society of South Africa (TSSA) in Durban.

Today is the fifth day of teaching and the first volume of the text is about to finish. The teaching starts from 24th of this month and it will finish on 4th of next month.

A group of Tibetans opposed to a Beijing-backed railway in their homeland is planning to protest against Nortel Networks' involvement in the project at the company's shareholder meeting Wednesday.

Today the first known criminal lawsuit was filed against Jiang Zemin, Li Peng and five other Chinese officials for crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, torture and terrorism committed upon the Tibetan people, at the National Court in Madrid, Spain.

Morality does not flow from religion, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has said in an interview to the Sunday Hindustan Times.

A Spanish lawsuit against former Chinese leaders over repression in Tibet will put severe pressure on Beijing and place the government's human rights record firmly in the spotlight, leading Tibetan dissidents said.