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Heavy snowfalls in Xigaze Prefectureof southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region has left one person dead and 2,481 others injured in the eyes or frost bitten, the local government said Saturday.

This seminar on Himalayan Security and Environment held in Bomdila, West Kemang Arunachal Pradesh on February 18, 2005 here by unanimously resolves

The Kashag of Central Tibetan Administration has decided close down its office in the Hungarian capital of Budapest with effect from 31 March 2005.

The United Nations has urged China to better safeguard constitutionally protected rights and criticised Beijing for arbitrarily jailing those who peacefully voice religious and political views.

China might have used its pressure and got dropped Miss Tibet from the Miss Tourism International Pageant, but South Asian Literary Conference has not only invited a Tibetan refugee poet but listened to his presentation too.

An exhibit of Tibetan art that opened in New York City Feb. 19 has been blasted by activists who claim that the art is the "stolen heritage of the Tibetan people" and is being used as pro-China propaganda.

In this muddy truck stop along the Qinghai-Tibet highway, Zhao, the Chinese owner of the Lanzhou Handmade Noodle Tavern, reminisced about the good old days.

A three-day warm up match between the Indian Cricket Board XI and the Pakistan team will be held at Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh from March 3.

Recent reports have called attention to the widespread rape of Sudanese women and girls in Darfur by janjaweed militiamen intent, according to some of the women, on populating the western region with Arab babies.

Tibetans and rights groups warn that objects soon to be displayed at the newly opened Rubin Museum of Art are stolen. The exhibit, "Tibet: Treasures from the Roof of the World," is on loan to the museum from the Chinese government