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The U.S. State Department sharply criticized China's human rights record in a new report Monday, less than two weeks after scrapping plans to censure China at the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama will inaugurate the new monastery building of Dakpo Shedrupling on 10 May 2005. The monastery is in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh.

"After January 31, 1997, when 2 nd Tibetan Peace March from Wardha, Sevagram to Delhi was terminated on the way at Agra, since then, this is the first time we are able to organize a program solely dedicated to the issue of Tibet"

Chinese guards warned Uyghur businesswoman Rebiya Kadeer that the five grown children she left behind in China would be "finished" if she revealed sensitive information or associated with Uyghur separatists in exile, Kadeer told RFA.

El Mercurio, a Spanish language daily from Santiago in Chile, announces the arrival of Tibetan Cultural Festival, "Encounter with the Tibetan Culture", in the first week of April in Chile's capital City, Santiago.

Expecting no more than light chit-chat about ballroom dancing, reporters in Tokyo were startled when actor Richard Gere launched into a condemnation of Europe's plans to lift an arms embargo against China.

The protected animal is seen as fully reflecting the spirit of the Olympics, and will help create "a green, people's and scientific" Olympic Games, officials and experts said.

An agreement between Nepal and China to start direct bus services between Kathmandu and Lhasa, capital of Tibet, will be implemented from May 1, as per schedule.

The Tibetan Women's Peace March flagged off from four different regions in India came to an end with the closing ceremony observed in three metro cities.

The 25-day tour starting from 1st March 2005, being organized by the South Zone Kagyudpa Buddhist Council successfully concluded today. HH Gyalwang Karmapa visited Mundgod, Kollegal, Hunsur, Bylakuppee and Chowker Tibetan settlements and the monasteries.